This year's Women's Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Dutch author Yael van der Wouden for The Safekeep, a novel about an unlikely romance in the Netherlands in the 1960s. The judges called the ...

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From a fantasy world of witches and pirates to a hotel on the Amalfi Coast, these summer books will transport you into a great romance.

Men are bigger romance fans than women, according to a recent survey. SWNS. Seventeen percent of married readers typically picture their spouse when imagining the love interest in a novel, 21% of ...

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