I have a new novel out, the first for quite a while. This is Maid Service which is written as Peter Birch and published by Sweetmeats Press.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...



Maid Service is a first for me in several ways. I've never worked with Sweetmeats before, at 96,000 words it's the longest novel I've ever written, and most importantly, it's illustrated. I've always felt my novels would be improved by the addition of illustrations, and so I was delighted to be offered this chance. The artist Sweetmeats chose is the highly skilled Giorgio Verona, whose beautifully executed pieces add a whole new dimension to my work. Most of his pictures are probably a little too rude for Goodreads, but here's a small sample...



Maid Service is a long, complicated book, a saga of corruption and obsession across several decades, so not easy to summarise, but I'd like to think it's worth reading, although not for the faint hearted. In fact it's been called harsh, which I don't deny, but in writing it I've tried hard not to whitewash the darker, more selfish side of BDSM as it's been played out on the English scene over the last half-century. The characters and incidents are drawn from my own experiences - of the British public school system, of London life and of BDSM - now stretching back over more than thirty years, mixed in with influence from scandals and less well known but equally shocking events. Oh, and it's heavily focussed on spanking, but I hope anybody who has read my work would expect nothing less!