Books by Brenda Murphy

Sick of living in her parents' basement and encountering her ex-girlfriend on a regular basis, former graduate student Veronica Fletcher signs on to manage the stable for Rowan House, Skye's most exclusive resort for women. After arriving at Rowan house Veronica's vow to remain celibate is tested when she meets Millie Reid.Sexy, sweet, and funny, Millie is the woman of Veronica's dreams. Or is she? When Millie's past threatens their future together, Veronica is faced with a choice she doesn't want to make. The butterfly effect has never been more personal.

Octavia Vargus had everything she wanted at Rowan House, Skye's most exclusive pleasure house, except the one thing she craved. Longing for the freedom to explore both sides of her nature, she leaves Rowan House and her mistress, for a new start in Italy with her partner Bridget Murray.Vivian Abiola is a connection to a past Octavia would like to forget, and a love she never expected to see again. After Octavia's past relationship with Vivian is exposed, Octavia and Bridget explore the limits of their desires with Vivian. When an arsonist threatens to destroy their vineyard, past loyalties and secrets endanger their lives, and the three women's relationship. Their love may be the only thing that helps them survive the firestorm of doubt, intrigue, and jealousy.

Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity - Irishness - it is simultaneously transnational in scope, as the author maps the trails of products, people and symbolic constructs through a globalised world.

This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan, an intense creative relationship that lasted from 1947 to 1960 and embraced among others, the production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.