Romance

Love stories of every kind, from classics to recent favourites. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is still the model for the genre. Contemporary romances include Emily Henry's Beach Read, Sally Thorne's The Hating Game, Helen Hoang's The Kiss Quotient, Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare and Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue. Julia Quinn's The Duke and I opens the Bridgerton series, Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds is a sweeping family saga, and Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo looks back on a Hollywood life. Warm, funny and moving reads, and a favourite with book clubs.

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Contemporary Romance

Modern love stories with humour and heart. Emily Henry's Beach Read pairs two rival writers; Sally Thorne's The Hating Game turns office enemies into something more; Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare has two strangers sharing one bed at different hours. Helen Hoang's The Kiss Quotient, Talia Hibbert's Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Tia Williams's Seven Days in June and Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue round out a shelf of some of the most popular romances of recent years. Ideal for comfort reading, holidays and book clubs that want something joyful.

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Historical Romance

Historical romance sets its love stories in the past, from Regency ballrooms to sprawling family estates. Julia Quinn's The Duke and I, the first Bridgerton novel, follows Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke of Hastings, who pretend to court each other in Regency London. Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds is a sweeping saga set on an Australian sheep station across decades, centred on the forbidden love between Meggie Cleary and a Catholic priest. Two bestsellers, both adapted for the screen. See Romance for more love stories.

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Romantic Comedy

Love stories built on banter and laughter. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice set the pattern of sparring lovers who misjudge each other, and modern romantic comedies still follow it: Sally Thorne's The Hating Game, Emily Henry's Beach Read, Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare, Talia Hibbert's Get a Life, Chloe Brown and Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue, about the son of the US president and a British prince. Light, funny and warm, with real feeling underneath: the perfect pick-me-up read.

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Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

Fantasy romance sets a love story in a world of adventure and magic. William Goldman's The Princess Bride is the classic: the farm boy Westley and the beautiful Buttercup, a stolen bride, a revenge-seeking swordsman, a giant, pirates and the most famous duel in modern fiction, all wrapped in a playful frame that pretends to abridge an older book. Funny, romantic and endlessly quotable, it is loved by readers of every age, and by fans of the film. More fantasy romance will join this shelf; see Romance and Fantasy for more.

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

A Novel

By Taylor Jenkins Reid

Reclusive screen legend Evelyn Hugo summons little-known journalist Monique Grant to record the truth behind her celebrated career and seven marriages. Moving from 1950s Hollywood to the present, Evelyn describes how ambition, sexuality, reinvention, and carefully managed publicity shaped both her stardom and her private life. Her account gradually reveals that the husbands named in the title were only part of the story: the defining relationship of her life was one she could not safely acknowledge in public. Meanwhile, Monique must determine why Evelyn selected her and what to do with a confession that may transform her own understanding of family, success, and moral responsibility.

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