romance

Book Reviews

• Murray Bail: Eucalyptus
  - an Australian fairy tale, a love story
• Julia Barrett: Presumption
  An Entertainment
• Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch: The Song of Songs*
  - a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
• Buddhadeva Bose: My Kind of Girl
  - "Is the memory of happiness that has passed, happy or sad?"
• Patricia Cornwell: Hornet's Nest
  - a combined police-procedural and romance
• John L. Foster: Love Songs of the New Kingdom*
  - ancient Egyptian love poems
• Enchi Fumiko: A Tale of False Fortunes
  - love and politics in 10th century Japan
• Georgette Heyer: The Grand Sophy*
  - a Regency romance by the founder of the genre
• David Lodge: Thinks...
  - a romantic comedy of manners in a provincial English university
• Yukio Mishima: The Sound of Waves
  - a simple love story set on a small Japanese island
• Park Min-Gyu: Pavane for a Dead Princess
  - blunt and subtle, love story and social critique
• Jacques Poulin: Autumn Rounds
  - an exceptionally gentle novel, a quiet romance
• Mary Renault: The Charioteer
• Emma Tennant: Pemberley
  A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice
• Dorothy Tennov: Love and Limerence
  The Experience of Being in Love
• Austin Tappan Wright: Islandia**
  - gentle romance and captivating fantasy

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I don't know that I'm a romantic, but I once wrote a love poem...