It’s tempting to see this trend as a sign of the times. But the biggest book publishers started changing their approach only once they realized they were leaving money on the table.
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Are romance novels all the same? Are their readers all bored housewives and BookTok girlies? Of course not! Romance experts Jodi McAlister and Jayashree Kamble debunk the myths and deliver the facts.
The author of 70 novels translated into 29 languages, Valerie Parv has passed away just before her 70th birthday.
Finding a Valentine via a dating app is a lot more likely than running into them on the street or getting trapped in a lift with them — even if it lacks a Hollywood moment.
Romance fiction has long been overlooked for TV adaptations – the success of Bridgerton proves how short sighted that is.
Readers often turn to romance fiction in times of uncertainty. Here are five reads for the newbie romance reader, for when you need a story where everything turns out okay in the end.
The group seemed to be doing all of the right things to diversify its ranks. It wasn’t enough.
There was an outcry in the LGBT community when the ending of Fiona Shaw’s bestselling novel was changed for the film.
Few of them are getting rich off their books but the genre is making them more money than it used to.
This year is the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death and her celebrity continues to grow. But relegating Austen’s work to plots about ‘whether the heroine gets her man’ belittles her achievement.
Perhaps we can think of the love letter and other gestures of romantic love as forms or techniques that mediate the violence of time, dispossession and exclusion.
Can a gender studies academic also write Mills and Boon novels? And can purple prose be as empowering as a pink pussy hat? The answer is yes, and yes again.
Despite the escapist nature of these romance novels, there is a considerable amount of realism contained within their pages.
A young Aboriginal woman falls in love with an escaped Japanese POW in 1944. Anita Heiss’ new book entwines romance with questions of enmity and friendship: who is fighting whom?
A relationship expert recommends her favourite romantic fiction – and it doesn’t have to be all princes and fairytales.
Crimson Peak reminds us that gothic romance is the originator of modern horror: gothic and romance are inextricably related.
Buttons open to the waist, skin gleaming with sweat, hair tousled, intriguing flashes of curves … men on the covers of classic romance novels, or “bodice rippers”, are objectified in many of the same ways…
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