Mills & Boon launch ‘spicy’ Afterglow series to woo TikTok book lovers
Romance publisher to launch two ‘trend-led books’ a month, with ‘generous dose of spice in every story’
July 2023
Pleasure and pliés: the ballet bonkbusters handling dance’s hot button issues
New novels combine romance and raunchy trysts with body politics and an exploration of the industry’s power dynamics
August 2021
Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson review – Mills & Boon debut is chaste good fun
The romance of her heroine’s ‘rebellious’ red hair is much more of a feature in the Duchess of York’s historical novel than sex
January 2021
'There's an art to it': with one sold every 10 seconds, what's Mills & Boon's secret?
Duchess of York’s first novel to be published by Mills & Boon
February 2019
Rosamunde Pilcher obituary
Popular and prolific novelist best known for The Shell Seekers and Coming Home whose work was particularly admired in Germany
January 2018
Digested week
We shall not be moved: Theresa May's shambolic reshuffle
John Crace
Lovable or rogue? Britons admit confusion about romantic gestures
December 2017
Brief letters
Mills and Boon author who saved refugees
Brief letters: Ida Cook | Hats and gloves | Native American land | Carols from King’s | Esperanto
December 2016
Has Mills & Boon managed a feminist rebrand?
The romantic-fiction house claims its new Modern Girl’s Guides are ‘funny, feisty and feminist’. But it’s more Five Go Gluten Free than The Second Sex
August 2016
Mills & Boon: zero shades of feminism
Julie Bindel
Mills & Boon romances are actually feminist texts, academic says
April 2016
Denise Robertson obituary
Agony aunt on the ITV show This Morning, whose own experiences helped her advise others in similar situations
January 2015
Roberta Leigh obituary
Creator of children’s TV series such as Space Patrol and Torchy the Battery Boy, who also wrote romantic fiction for Mills & Boon
May 2014
Mills & Boon announces 'totally new' digital storytelling format
Online story world, with host of different stories unfolding in a fictional hotel, pledges to turn romantic fiction 'on its head'
February 2014
Bodice-ripping Mills & Boon novels? There's an app for that
Publisher Harlequin launches new ebook reader app for iPhone and iPad, tying into its existing website. By Stuart Dredge
August 2013
Dozens of unseen Barbara Cartland novels to be published
'Pink Collection' of 160 unpublished novels joins vast 'Eternal Collection' already in print
January 2013
From the Guardian archive
From the archive, 26 January 1971: Romantic novelists and public libraries
Originally published in the Guardian on 26 January 1971: The Romantic Novelists' Association, wounded by being so cruelly spurned, is to carry out a survey of how libraries treat romantic fiction
December 2012
Shortcuts
Learn to write erotica – centaur sex anyone?
A workshop hosted by a Mills & Boon editor aims to help people write better sex scenes, writes Emine Saner
July 2012
Mills & Boon turns heat up Fifty Shades with erotica titles
The publisher, better known for its romance stories, announces plans to emulate success of Fifty Shades of Grey with 12 digital-only racy reads
