Two books of female-led fiction describing women who, for various reasons, take the "Men are animals" cliché to heart and proceed to make a reality of it that works in their favour.

Marisette Hennessey's "A Forced Descent" opens proceedings as we learn of the fate of a faithless, overbearing and dishonest, accountant husband whose wife's young Polish friend insists she can make her marriage more equitable... A young Polish friend who just happens to be a rather gifted dog-handler and trainer with her own facility on a remote stretch of Scottish coastline.

We conclude with "Property of Ms Zaynab" by Vera Carlisle and the tale of a wealthy but warped and depraved Arab woman with a very precise fantasy on behalf of the white and English male... A fantasy she finally gets to experience after employing a Dorset-based project-manager and coming to an arrangement with his equally depraved and warped wife.

2-Books of female-led fiction and the strange and decadent situations it can describe.