The long-running queen of the soap-operas, the Bold and the Beautiful turns 35 this year. We’ve collected some of the strangest storylines from its many hundreds of episodes.
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Romance readers would be familiar with the idea of romantic serialisation - now, Netflix’s Bridgerton brings the format to television, which is why season 1’s Duke of Hastings is nowhere to be seen.
Festive romance, miracles and a happy ever after: the tropes of Christmas rom-com films (and why we love them).
For 20 years, Jodi McAlister has been watching The Bold and The Beautiful. Under lockdown, again, she finds comfort in the reliable rhythms of a slow-drip soap opera set in the world of high fashion.
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.
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