There’s a schism in the world of historical romance novels. It’s bigger than the British Regency sub-genre and it even predates Bridgerton, the hit Netflix series based on Julia Quinn’s octet of ...

If you've binged the Netflix hit and devoured Julia Quinn's books, these bodice-rippers should be on your TBR list.

In late spring, a hundred-pound sack of King Arthur flour arrived on the doorstep of Bea Koch’s Twentynine Palms home. It was still early in the coronavirus lockdown. Koch was on leave from the Ripped ...

Every few years, the Austenites must feed. Netflix’s adaptation of “Persuasion” and the revival of the cult-favorite show “Sanditon” are the latest offerings to Jane Austen, whose memory must be ...

Bee Ridgway is a romance author and teaches American literature at Bryn Mawr College. Some of her colleagues might cringe at the thought, but we romance readers don't, because we know that many of the ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. For the majority of film and TV’s most popular endeavours, the ...

Star fans and family gather at author’s birthplace in Wimbledon to see her remembered for witty, escapist fiction that sold in millions Georgette Heyer may have been notoriously self-deprecating about ...

Even with a forthcoming romance novel whose characters could promenade the same ballrooms as Emma Woodhouse and Mr. Knightley, Anna Harrington, author of An Inconvenient Duke, doesn’t lower her voice ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It’s a consequential ...