Romance is literature

Author and Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett picks out the reads that will help get your pulse racing

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

Blinding: The Left Wing Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, trans. by ...

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Jennifer Buckley Periodicals, Fiction and the Novel, 1700–1760 Ecologies of print 232pp. Edinburgh University Press. £95. Matthew P. Brown The Novel and the Blank A literary history of the book trades

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