"The first rays of the sun fell on my face, waking me for the first time as a married man. I found Shreya lying on my lap. Though I had kissed her, several times before as my girlfriend, for the first time I kissed my wife. The morning sun rays proclaimed the beginning of a fresh chapter in our lives. Shreya and Abhinav were now officially married. As I locked my lips with Shreya’s, little did I know, that within a decade of our marriage, our lips will lock less and talk more…." ‘Marriage’ is a mammoth metamorphosis of human life. Priorities, feelings, romance, and likings change with every passing year of married life. One fine day, we realise that we are converted into parents and that becomes more important than being a couple. Slowly difference of opinion starts cropping up between and the relationship starts getting messy. The story is about Shreya and Abhinav’s life-changing marriage experiences, which any couple can relate to. Enjoy, it is your own story!

After the hugely popular Boys & Girls, Paul Burston, returns with Men & Women, a new anthology of stories about Gay and Lesbian love. From the vantage point of middle age there are 10 unique stories about the trials and tribulations of relationships. From the difficulties of a father-son relationship, a newlywed Gay couple on their honeymoon, to a retrospective of an elderly man of his youth. Sometimes funny, occasionally heartbreaking, these are stories for all men and women from some of the UK's best known Gay and Lesbian writers.

A twentieth-century Faust, musician turned wine merchant, Crawford Hollander has done well from his deal with the devil. Successful, charming, surrounded by a circle of adoring women, he has cajoled, manipulated and cheated his way to riches. But Crawford has also accumulated enemies. On his return to his native New Zealand, three men are waiting for him. They have formed the Welcoming Committee, and have prepared a very special form of revenge-Crawford is the most complex and most magnificent of Imogen de la Bere's villains, and the novel through which he struts is her best yet - gripping, funny and deliciously tolerant of human frailty.

During the chaotic era, smoke rose from all directions. Leng Quan never expected that he would be together with such an illustrious young general ... After a lifetime of entanglement, love, hate, and hatred.

First published in 2001. This volume is based on the author's visit to Japan in Summer 1986 on his findings about some of the questions he was asked whilst there. He was 25 and these questions centred around asking if he was married or had a girlfriend, when in his homeland of the Netherlands he openly identified as gay. This research is an investigation of how gay and lesbian people, women's and men's liberationaists, singles and other people, such as transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites, whose ideas, feelings or lifestyles are at variance with Japanese constructions of marriage and inherently the construction of life, live in Japan.

"In the US, marriage rates are at an all-time low. But as rates are declining, a considerable portion of the US population only very recently has the right to marry: same-sex couples. Do same-sex couples follow widespread trends of couples turning away from marriage? And how does the expansion of marriage to include same-sex couples change the meaning of the institution in society?"--

From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles--just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord.

Jill has married her Tom even though she know he had a history of picking up undesirable girls in pubs. She hopes marriage will change him and for a while it seems it has. But after a bit he starts to slip back into his old ways. She feels anxious, but tries to ignore her fears till a girl turns up pregnant on the doorstep claiming the child is his. She leaves him and sets up in a flat with her friend Emma who left her husband when he attacked her. Tom’s attempts to get her back become more and more frantic. Can two who are crazy about each other overcome the barriers of betrayal and distrust?

We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered, principled, and restrained. The theory is based on an account of criminal law as a distinctive legal practice that functions to declare and define a set of public wrongs, and to call to formal public account those who commit such wrongs; an account of the role that such practice can play in a democratic republic of free and equal citizens; and an account of the central features of such a political community, and of the way in which it constitutes its public realm-its civil order. Criminal law plays an important, but limited, role in such a political community in protecting, but also partly constituting, its civil order. On the basis of this account, we can see how such a political community will decide what kinds of conduct should be criminalized - not by applying one or more of the substantive master principles that theorists have offered, but by considering which kinds of conduct fall within its public realm (as distinct from the private realms that are not the polity's business), and which kinds of wrong within that realm require this distinctive kind of response (rather than one of the other kinds of available response). The outcome of such a deliberative process will probably be a more limited, and a more rational and principled, criminal law.