David Shaw: 51 books

In this life-affirming book, author David Shaw explores ten major themes that affect us all – and offers a unique way to engage with them. Whether it’s fear or forgiveness, credence or clarity, materialism or acceptance, Shaw gives us the benefit of ten spiritual authors who pen their intriguing...

In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare’s influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and George Meredith. Often, he writes, the...

David Shaw sees himself as an Average Joe. He grew up an average kid in an average neighbourhood in Ayrshire. Like many an Average Joe, he does ordinary things: goes to work, supports his local football team, puts the world to rights over a pint. But this Average Joe is anything but average. Styling...

What is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives? In Secrets of the Oracle, David Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written. Wisdom...

This is an audio script. A young British special forces soldier is blinded in Afghanistan. Luckily for him he meets a very special kind of nurse. One who's prepared to do everything a woman can to help a man fight his own despair. But has she found the key to a whole new life for him, a career beyond belief?

A short snippet of alternative World War II history. A case of what might have been.

Young Hal is a nobody. Apart from his pet dragon. A dragon thirty paces long that flies and breathes fire. But she's as gentle as a lamb is Josephine She's just lonely in a world where there are no other dragons. Yet the King orders Hal to find a male dragon to breed a dragon army. Only Hal knows...

The world's greatest detective wasn't always available, and then Watson had to cover for him. Unfortunately there were some cases where the Doctor was soon out of his depth. Especially when a beautiful tennis champion was being blackmailed into a game of shame. Fortunately another under rated member...

Police Constable Phil Rodgers is aptly named; he has a talent for rodgering women. In fact he's a walking magnet in big boots and silver buttons for every lady who's ever dreamed of polishing up an impressive truncheon. Which means that Phil keeps finding himself in situations which are completely out of his self control.

Liberating a city can be a very liberating experience, even if you're not a combat veteran. What really counts is what you've got to trade and how eager the local ladies are to sample the goodies. As Genghis Khan noted in his book: "Winning Wars for Fun and Profit", there's nothing like...

Strange things happen in wartime. Sarah Vandell didn't really want to do any favors for the two society wives renting a cottage to escape the bombs falling on London. But she did want to satisfy her curiosity. An emotion redoubled when she found the joop (or was it a jeep) parked around the back of the cottage and sounds of male laughter coming from the steam filled wash house.

Jake Jefferson Jackson is a young ex-gunfighter with some notoriety because of Ned Buntline's dime westerns. Travelling to New York to put on a stage show, JJJ meets two attractive and unescorted wives on a river steamer. The ladies are impressed by the cowboy's good looks, the size of his...

The Vicar's wife has a difficult decision to make. Help the Duke's son enjoy his holiday or start packing her bags to spread God's word abroad. Abroad in the sense of some stifling hot malaria ridden swamp far from England's green fields. Which kind of missionary position will she choose?

Amanda Shilling is a school teacher with a problem. A patrol of Confederate soldiers has to destroy a river boat full of Union gunpowder and Amanda's town is going to get blown up with it. Unless the women can find a way of persuading the Rebels to do their duty without destroying their homes. Still,...