Browse all our articles, featuring books that contain an element of romance, whether that be simmering romantic tension or a full blown love affair — heartwarming, heart breaking or heart racing!
Recent standout reads for us in the romance genre are The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton, Ashley Poston’s The Seven Year Slip, Pip Williams’ The Bookbinder and Mhairi McFarlane’s Last Night. And, it would be hard to go wrong with some of our all time top romance reads such as the iconic One Day, The Flatshare and The Time Traveller’s Wife, the quirky under-appreciated gem Resistance Is Futile and the uplifting Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand.
Finally, if you too think romance and humour make the perfect match, then we recommend checking out our most popular Book List: 30 Top Romantic Comedy Novels.
Fates and Furies Synopsis: Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous,…
A Murder in Time is the first title in Julie McElwain’s Kendra Donovan Mysteries series – a book that garnered lots of pre-release industry buzz. A Murder in Time Synopsis When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and…
The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe is the story of one young woman who risks everything to earn a college degree—but the secret she hides could be her undoing. Read my full review. The Gilded Years Book Synopsis Since childhood, Anita…
The scandalous Australian woman who enchanted British society Rosetta Synopsis: Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer…
How Happy To Be Synopsis : How Happy to Be captures the life of a disillusioned entertainment journalist as she heads into a downward spiral of ritual substance abuse and empty punditry. Along this path of self-destruction, her past on a West…
Two titles with a travel theme – Ursula Bloom’s romantic fiction Wonder Cruise and Mr Snack and the Lady Water, a collection of travel essays from Brendan Shanahan. Wonder Cruise Synopsis Ann Clements is thirty-five and single, and believes nothing…
Missing Synopsis Cass Lehman and Detective Ed Dyson #3 On any night, 1 person in 200 is homeless … Someone is targeting Adelaide’s homeless. Men are disappearing off the streets, and body parts are turning up in a local dump. Still…
Killing Adonis has recently published in the US by Poisoned Pen Press Mysteries. Killing Adonis Synopsis: LIGHT DUTIES, LARGE PAY NO QUESTIONS ASKED … OR ANSWERED After seeing a curious flyer, Freya takes a job caring for Elijah, the comatose son of…
Christy Collins’ The End of Seeing is a must-read, but not an easy one. One of our Top Reads of 2016. Read on for our full review. The End of Seeing Synopsis: You saw something here – something that connects this town…
In Catherine Lowell’s debut novel The Madwoman Upstairs, the only remaining descendant of the Brontë family embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt (with the help of a handsome but inscrutable Oxford professor) to find the family’s long-rumored secret estate,…
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish Synopsis : Painted in white, red and black ochre, the heart-shaped mask was one of the greatest creations of primitive man. The size of a dining table, it was carved with crazed, spiky lines that…
Today Melanie Casey joins us to discuss her latest release Missing, the third title in her paranormal crime series featuring Cass Lehman and Detective Ed Dyson, and we offer readers the chance to win a copy. BLBR: Thanks so much for taking the…
Ferry Tale Synopsis : She wants to be someone else… Katrina Keller flees to Hong Kong after the most humiliating moment of her life goes viral on YouTube. She starts over as a lounge singer in a fancy hotel, wishing only to…
Shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 The Portable Veblen Synopsis : A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning – from an electrically entertaining new voice. Meet Veblen: a passionate…
Hindsight Synopsis Cass Lehman has a terrifying ‘gift’… She sees what others can’t… The youngest in a family of extraordinary women with supernatural talents, Cass is cursed with the not-so-sexy gift of seeing the past… but not just any past; she…
The Art of Fielding Synopsis : At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people…
