Author: Kristin Ramsdell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610692357
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on "Chick Lit" in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have.
Romance Fiction
Author: Kristin Ramsdell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610692357
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on "Chick Lit" in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610692357
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on "Chick Lit" in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have.
The Mysterious Miss M (Mills & Boon Historical)
Author: Diane Gaston
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472039688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
THE REGENCY UNDERWORLD–SEX, SCANDAL AND REDEEMING LOVE! The Mysterious Miss M is a living male fantasy–alluring, sensual, masked. But when Lord Devlin Steele finds himself responsible for her–and her child–he comes to know the real Maddy: the loving, passionate woman who drives away the nightmares of the Waterloo battlefield.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472039688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
THE REGENCY UNDERWORLD–SEX, SCANDAL AND REDEEMING LOVE! The Mysterious Miss M is a living male fantasy–alluring, sensual, masked. But when Lord Devlin Steele finds himself responsible for her–and her child–he comes to know the real Maddy: the loving, passionate woman who drives away the nightmares of the Waterloo battlefield.
The Society Catch
Author: Louise Allen
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460854160
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
RUNNING AWAY FROM LOVE! Miss Joanna Fulgrave has turned herself into the perfect society catch to be worthy of dashing Colonel Giles Gregory. But all her hard effort to improve herself comes to nothing when it looks as if Giles is about to propose to someone else! Deciding that bad behaviour is infinitely more attractive than perfection, Joanna flees her shocked family. Giles is hot on her trail, determined to catch her and bring her safely home. But will he be as determined to make her his bride?
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460854160
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
RUNNING AWAY FROM LOVE! Miss Joanna Fulgrave has turned herself into the perfect society catch to be worthy of dashing Colonel Giles Gregory. But all her hard effort to improve herself comes to nothing when it looks as if Giles is about to propose to someone else! Deciding that bad behaviour is infinitely more attractive than perfection, Joanna flees her shocked family. Giles is hot on her trail, determined to catch her and bring her safely home. But will he be as determined to make her his bride?
Bound By Their Secret Passion (The Scandalous Summerfields, Book 4) (Mills & Boon Historical)
Author: Diane Gaston
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474053548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A forbidden attraction... A hidden desire!
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474053548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A forbidden attraction... A hidden desire!
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
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The Review of Reviews
Author: William Thomas Stead
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The Bookman
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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The Outlook
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Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Pages : 916
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New Directions in Popular Fiction
Author: Ken Gelder
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137523468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction, Whitechapel Gothic novels, the British spy thriller, Japanese mysteries, the 'new weird', fantasy, girl hero action novels and Quebecois science fiction. It also examines the production, reproduction and distribution of popular fiction as it carves out space for itself in transnational marketplaces and across different media entertainment systems; and it discusses the careers of popular authors and the various investments in popular fiction by readers and fans. This book will be indispensable for anyone with a serious interest in this prolific but highly distinctive literary field.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137523468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction, Whitechapel Gothic novels, the British spy thriller, Japanese mysteries, the 'new weird', fantasy, girl hero action novels and Quebecois science fiction. It also examines the production, reproduction and distribution of popular fiction as it carves out space for itself in transnational marketplaces and across different media entertainment systems; and it discusses the careers of popular authors and the various investments in popular fiction by readers and fans. This book will be indispensable for anyone with a serious interest in this prolific but highly distinctive literary field.