Last year Tabsch/Daoud brought us Cherry Pop: The Story of the World's Fanciest Cat and this year they've leapt right into the deep end with Dolphin Lover, about one Florida man's conjugal interspecies relationship with a dolphin.
"This sentiment shocks me deeply – considering that I really am to be tied by the conjugal knot & actually to be blessed by the Church of England: but then the truth always is so shocking and probably nobody is monogamous".
The centenary celebrations will probably play down the conjugal row until June 29, when the pres ident and poets will join in a panegyric to Saint-Exupéry.
"I should have judged her by her deeds not her words," he writes in the book, which is less a childlike fantasy than a parable about the obligations of conjugal love.
After rebels seized the north in 2002, Mrs Gbagbo called on Ivorian women to deny their husbands conjugal rights if they favoured making peace with the rebels.
"Happy are the Happy", vivaciously translated from the French by Sarah Ardizzone, charts the conjugal, parental and romantic woes of 18 interconnected characters.
Some do so of their own accord, but most have no say in the matter.One such father, an ex-deputy mayor, describes the system as a conjugal version of the prisoner's dilemma.
Thinking about conjugal visits has moved on a bit: much of the world offers them.
Even in Islamic Iran, some women are choosing education over marriage, exploiting newly relaxed divorce laws or flashing fake wedding rings to secure sole lodgings.The picture is more troubling in China and India, where the dark arts of selection for male babies promise a generation of bachelors with diminished conjugal prospects.
Going out to work may not increase conjugal unhappiness, but it certainly gives wives an easier way out.As that escape route began to open up in the middle of the 20th century, it seemed to promise bliss to those wives whose marriages were torture.
Paul Nuttall, a British member of the European Parliament, decried a study of the issue as wasteful, complaining that prisons were already like "holiday camps" when they should be a punishment.Yet evidence does suggest that conjugal visits not only reduce prison violence but also reduce recidivism by preserving family ties.
