What would it take to have a life of meaningful work, refreshing fun and great relationships? Mark Shaw paints us a vivid picture of human flourishing, where pursuing wisdom and guarding against cultural pitfalls can give us a renewed sense of vocation, fun and community.

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain in 1955 after being convicted of shooting her lover, David Blakely, in cold blood. 'The Thrill of Love' dramatises this infamous true story and takes a closer look at the women behind the headlines.

Zuri Day spins a captivating and sexy tale of taking charge, letting loose, and playing for keeps. . . With her curvaceous full figure and a mega-successful magazine career, Dominique Clark is finally large-and-in-charge of her life. The last thing she needs is romantic drama--especially in the form of her son's football coach, Jake McDonald, a man who's used to calling the shots. Yet when their instant attraction leads to a sizzling all-night sexual marathon, they agree that several rematches are in order just to get each other out of their systems. The loving is good, but their differences of opinion have Dominique's head screaming time out. Her heart, however, wants to stay in the game. . . "A completely entertaining love story. . .Day's use of humor and good sense creates a completely readable novel."--RT Book Club on Body By Night "Day spins an erotic. . .tale of love in unexpected places." --Publishers Weekly on Lessons From A Younger Lover "The pages of Body By Night are dripping with fire and desire." --The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers "Day writes with zest and sensual appeal. The descriptions of food edge the bedroom scenes, but not by much."--Publishers Weekly on What Love Tastes Like

One Act Play, Comedy. Cast: 4 men, 1 woman. Synopsis: A high school teacher presents universal truths about love and marriage to his class. During the process, the husband and wife characters in the teacher's slide presentation come to life and begin talking back. Soon the narrative is being driven as much by the teacher as his fictionalized husband and wife. Will the teacher be able to keep his characters marriage together and his class under control?

Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary British Drama reflects the appeal of love as a topic and driving force in dramatic works with in-depth analyses of eight pivotal plays from the past three decades. Following an interdisciplinary and historical approach, the study collects and condenses theories of love from philosophy and sociology to derive persisting discourses and to examine their reoccurrence and transformation in contemporary plays. Special emphasis is put on narratives of love’s compensatory function and precariousness and on how modifications of these narratives epitomise the peculiarities of emotional life in the social and cultural context of the present. Based on the assumption that drama is especially inclined to draw on shared narratives for representations of love, the book demonstrates that love is both a window to remnants of the past in the present and a proper subject matter for drama in times in which the suitability of the dramatic form has been questioned.