Mathilda Gregory’s story is as unlikely as any she’s dreamed up for the commissioning publishers of her six-book repertoire of erotica.

But even her alter ego, author Mathilde Madden couldn’t make up this strange-but-true show – it smacks of a very well-thought out hoax, but it’s all true.

The show’s publicity focuses on the extraordinary case of one prisoner in California who fought the authorities through the Courts for his human right to obtain the sequel to werewolf book Silver Cage. He won after two years when a legal expert adjudged the novel as ‘literary fiction’.

Juicy though this tale is, the unique, well-conceived show has plenty more to recommend it, as it follows Gregory’s route through publishing with original insight.

While Gregory busied herself making a spreadsheet of characters’ heights and researching wheelchair fetishes, her publishers wanted a discussion as to the nature of bestiality - in case her werewolves were outside writers’ guidelines.

Gregory’s engaging delivery was quietly confident, giving her unusual props collection maximum room to startle and amuse: an outsized golden phallus, six well-thumbed paperbacks, a Writer Of The Year Certificate, and the 30-page legal judgment - the best book review she has ever received.