Two tales of female domination from Rafael Menton and Rafe Linnell, one contemporary and one more retro, open with Mr Menton’s “A Marital Coup”, in which a marginalised French wife decides her partner is not the only one who can play around outside of their marriage. The lover she chooses though, and the course that lover sets them on, will prove a game-changer for the wife. As well as change the perception of one macho husband concerning where the true power in his marriage really resides… Not to mention how his carefree life will change when the one in possession of that power is made to realise the fact also. Mr Linnell’s “Madame Solange and his tale describing the lives of two friends in a sleepy English village between the wars. Lives that are turned on their heads when one of them confesses to a murder he committed while living in Paris… A murder committed at the behest of an evil and mesmeric landlady whose clutches he subsequently escaped by returning to England… A demonic and sexually controlling landlady for whom nothing matters but the control that slakes her sexual thirst and her desire to exercise it once more over the handsome Englishman now she has found her former slave once again. 2-Tales of the past and the present with one thing in common… That one thing being the complete control of the female over the male.