Jamie Maclean MATURE CONTENT

Jamie specialises in both fiction and non-fiction and is particularly interested in sexual politics, relationship, lifestyle how-to’s, erotica, thrillers, whodunit and historical crime.

Educated at Edinburgh College of Art, Jamie was fortunate enough to join the pilot scheme of the Sotheby’s Works of Art Course. Subsequently he worked for Sotheby’s and briefly ran the newly formed Victorian paintings department before moving to Michael Parkin Fine Art, a gallery specializing in modern British art. His next job was at Wildenstein & Co, the international art dealers. Three years later he set up his own dealership, the Maclean Gallery, holding exhibitions of paintings, drawings and prints from the 18th century to the present day, for which he produced several catalogues. In 1985 he curated the first exhibition of erotic art to be held legally in the UK.

At about this time he was asked to cover the art auction scene for House and Garden and wrote a column for seven years. He has also written for the Observer, Evening Standard and New Statesman.

In 1995 Jamie Maclean founded the Erotic Review, handing over the editorship to Rowan Pelling after two years but remaining as publisher; together they continued to build up the magazine's readership, which eventually reached 30,000. He resumed as ER’s editor in 2007. Contributors included Naim Attallah, Joseph Connolly, Kate Copstick, Alan Jenkins, Simon Raven, Auberon Waugh, Alain de Botton, A C Grayling, DBC Pierre, Barry Humphries, Brian Sewell, Malachi O’Doherty and many others. In 2016 he co-edited an anthology of erotic short fiction with Mariella Frostrup, Desire.

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