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Romance bookstores are booming in Australia and worldwide – and fans are lining up for love

Romance bookstores are booming in Australia and worldwide – and fans are lining up for love

Australian romance readers are propping up a flatlining book market, say some. Romance sales have grown by 49% for 3 years. And romance bookstores are...

12.02.2025 7

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Jodi Mcalister

Flowers in the Attic at 45: the ‘awful and fabulous’ gothic megaseller that influenced Gillian Flynn and obsessed Roxane Gay

In 1978, Ann Patty, a young, inexperienced editor for Pocket Books, was on the subway with her friend Humphrey Evans, who told her about an “awful...

20.11.2024 3

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Jodi Mcalister