Top Ten Romance Books

Newest Review: ... novel, it has tragic love, unhappy marriages, lust, death, murder, estrangement and so much more. Unlike most of Hardy's other novels, this one has a happy ending, with Bathsheba making a decision between mind-blowing passion and the ‘sensible option’. 7. A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute My wife’s a great Neville Shute fan, and this is one of his best. A wartime romance which is a real teerjerker. English rose Jean Paget and Australian prisoner of war Joe Harmon, first meet on a death march in occupied Malaya. Jean believes Joe has been killed and he believes she has married. After the war they decide to search f... more

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Top Ten Romance Books: ‘Frankly ... I don't give a damn’ (1556 words)
by - written on 17/02/02 (Very useful, 798 readings)
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Just the nine I’m afraid, but quite frankly I don’t give a damn. I’m not really into romantic fiction, or at least I didn’t think I was until I read the results of a recent poll and surprised myself over how many I’d read and actually enjoyed. Most of them are, surprisingly enough, what you’d call ‘classics’ which either means nobody writes decent romances these days or I read in them in my impressionable youth when I was full of angst and had the ability to concentrate on something more taxing than the latest Dick Francis. Anyway, see what you think and if you can come up with something I could read and ... Read the complete review

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