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Romance books

September 2024

  • Jilly Cooper photographed at her home in the Cotswolds by Gareth Iwan Jones for the Observer New Review, September 2024.

    You ask the questions
    ‘Are you good in bed?’ Jilly Cooper on horses, lefties and which fictional character she would like to sleep with

  • Jilly Cooper at the Oldie of the year awards.

    You ask the questions
    Send us your questions for Jilly Cooper

August 2024

  • ‘A teenage runaway from County Louth comes to London in search of a fresh start.’

    Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey review – the Irish diaspora

  • Woman reading a book

    The joy of sexy fiction, by women for women

  • Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively in It Ends with Us.

    It Ends with Us review – Blake Lively anchors glossy romance adaptation

  • Zoe Williams reads romance literature.

    My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why

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

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