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Romance books

July 2024

  • Lily Collins in Emily in Paris, Richard Gadd in Baby Reindeer and Jeremy Allen White in The Bear

    If you like Baby Reindeer, you’ll love Young Mungo! 29 terrific TV shows – and the books to read instead

  • Pol Guasch

    Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch review – the aftermath of apocalypse

June 2024

  • ‘We offer escapism, we offer fantasy. It is a place to go when the things happening around you are not as enjoyable,’ said Kate Fahlsing, director of creative strategy at Chapters.

    As spicy as you want it: interactive fiction games put forward a new kind of narrative

  • Teen crush … Shanice Gowan and Dashawn Miller in Romeo n Juliet 4EVA.

    Romeo n Juliet 4EVA review – Jamaican teens breathe fresh life into Shakespeare romance

May 2024

  • A grownup gangster. Or is he? … François Civil in Beating Hearts.

    Beating Hearts review – operatic French gangster film suffers from bloat

  • Portrait photograph of Shirley Conran

    Shirley Conran, campaigner and ‘queen of the bonkbuster’, dies aged 91

  • Bidisha Mamata

    Notebook
    A successful woman in her 40s with a toyboy pop star? Great on screen in The Idea of You, scary in reality

    Bidisha Mamata
  • This image released by Prime shows Nicholas Galitzine, left, and Anne Hathaway in a scene from "The Idea of You." (Prime via AP)

    The Idea of You review – Anne Hathaway lives out fanfic fantasy in solid romance

April 2024

  • A young girl reaches for a book between bookshelves in a library.

    A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back

  • Emily Henry - credit Emily Henry

    ‘My favourite stories are love stories’: Emily Henry on her enemies-to-lovers relationship with romance fiction

  • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

    ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’: Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You

  • David Nicholls.

    You Are Here by David Nicholls review – a well-mapped romance

February 2024

  • Irina Starshenbaum as the real historical figure, Shoshana Borochov.

    Shoshana review – Michael Winterbottom’s compelling romantic thriller set in 30s Palestine

  • Sarah J Maas in conversation at a book signing in the US in 2016

    TikTokers help drive Sarah J Maas ‘romantasy’ boom for Bloomsbury

  • grid of four photos showing romance novel bookstores. 'meet cute' has a lavender exterior; 'slow burn books' has two women in front drinking from wine glasses; 'the ripped bodice' has its sign over plants, with two smiling people below; 'lovebound library' has a fun font and a red door

    Sexily ever after: how romance bookstores took over America

  • Sarah J Maas.

    House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J Maas races to the top of bestseller chart

  • TV review
    One Day review – a flawless romcom you’ll fall for, hard

  • A genre of swords and soulmates: the rise and rise of ‘romantasy’ novels

January 2024

  • Vanessa Kirby is excellent as the pragmatic, straight-talking Jen

    Audiobook of the week
    Good Material by Dolly Alderton audiobook review – a funny account of millennial love

  • (L-R): Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, Space by Stephen Baxter, The Professor by Lauren Nossett, My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand, My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber, Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley.

    Ultimate summer reads
    Pulp, page-turners and pure joy: the ultimate summer reading list, picked by you

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