Back Soul Tourists
Chapters (61)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. PENGUIN BOOKS
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. The Shipwreck, 1987
  7. Heaven, Really
  8. Flying to Tower Hamlets
  9. The Coroner’s Office
  10. The Burial Ground
  11. Single at Mingles, 1988
  12. Café Italia, Soho
  13. Broadstairs-sur-la-Mer
  14. Clerken-well
  15. Fifty-one Days in Blackheath
  16. London Au Revoir
  17. La France
  18. The Freeway
  19. Hall of Mirrors, Versailles
  20. The Queen of France’s Boudoir
  21. A Caravan in a Country Lane
  22. The Convent
  23. Café des Fantômes, Paris
  24. The Camargue
  25. Morning in a French Lay-by
  26. A Thousand Miles from Home
  27. The Campsite
  28. Summer on the Coast
  29. The Crying Mountain
  30. Seeing Red in Orange Square, Marbella
  31. Rock of Jabal al-Tariq
  32. The Room in Jessie’s Head
  33. Mama Hortense’s Singing Kitchen
  34. Closing Time at Mama’s
  35. The Alps
  36. The Fêted House of Medici, Florence
  37. Continental Shift, Turkey
  38. The Silken Road
  39. Letter from the Court of Jessie at Ölüdeniz
  40. Summer of 1989: Court Budget
  41. Dreams of a Faraway Place
  42. A Trip Down Memory Lane
  43. Old Istanbul
  44. Eighteenth-century Slave Market
  45. In the Sultan’s Seraglio
  46. Life after the Camp Deserter
  47. The Front Line
  48. Güle, Güle, Ölüdeniz
  49. The Ocean Floor
  50. Eastern Anatolia
  51. Slipping into the Middle East
  52. The Supreme Court of ‘Justice’
  53. Antipodean Dreamtime
  54. The Glorious Gulf
  55. Epilogue: Under the Carpet at Windsor
  56. Acknowledgements
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  61. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

S She’s so, shall we say, Pre-Raphaelite, only darker, and with much larger breasts (42EE?)

J Stronger than he looks, but not so’s I couldn’t pin him down

S Such chewable lips that seek mine. Such billowy arms embracing mine

J His hands are so sensitive, like radar. Finding my magic spot, heating it up

S My hands warm her breasts. The cup runneth over

J Come and drink your milk-ilicious, Baby-Boy

S Not skimmed, semi-skimmed or fat-free but full-bodied whole: a mouth-watering, lactating fantasy

J It’s long but not as lean as his feet would suggest. In girth, more like bratwurst than chipolata, thankfully. Whatever they say – it does matter

S I’m lying weightless on top of a water bed

J My fingers count each vertebrae down to his coccyx, then circle and …

S I’ve never allowed that before. It’s quite … Oooh …

J If only I had a strap-on

S No jutting-out bones to scrape against mine like hammers and chisels in a tool bag

J Would he let me? Would he?

S Smells of sweat. Tastes of toothpaste. Damn! I forgot to brush mine

J Don’t mind his manky-breath at all. I must be smitten, eh?

S I venture downstairs. The bathroom is so clean and, well, nice-smelling

J As I moan I see us driving down the autobahn at 150mph, whooping it up, deliriously

S I clamber back up. A job well done. There’s pleasure in pleasuring another

J Ten out of ten, my tail-wagging puppy dog

S Now I’m trying to navigate, but you know, sometimes … a guy fumbles

J Let me get you an A–Z, dear. Or should we join the local orienteering society? How about a compass?

S I did tell you I wasn’t Don Juan

J Never mind, I’ll be your Girl Guide. Arkala!

S She’s saluting. She’s cracking me up!

J We-Will-Do-Our-Best!

S I want sweet nothings, but all I can manage is You’re really turning me on

J Which is nothing short of unimaginative, Stanley

S When I’m inside her, shall we say, tropical lushness, I feel so … male

J When he’s inside me, I want to pull up the drawbridge and bolt it

S Wanted comfort (100%). Wanted contrast (100%). Wanted to come (100%)

J Come with me, Stanley, dear. Wake up to wide open fields and driving on a road that leads up and away into the heavens

S She opens her eyes and a tear escapes, which she quickly wipes away

J He’s grinning like a teenager what’s just lost his virginity

S We’ve found each other, Miss O’Donnell

J Yes, we have, Mr Williams

S She rolls on top of me and I completely disappear

J Dissolve into me, for eternity …