Romances featuring books or booksellers

Eliza · Joined: 21 Aug 2011 Posts: 718

I love stories featuring manuscripts, rare books, sellers and collectors, so Miranda Neville's "The Wild Marquis" was a winner for me, as is Ms Neville who "spent several years writing catalogues of rare books and original letters and manuscripts for Sotheby's auction house in London and New York."

I also enjoyed Candice Hern's "Ladies' Fashionable Cabinet" series which starts off with a columnist for that publication.

Does anyone know of any romances with book or publishing backdrops or themes?

KayWebbHarrison · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 1207 Location: SE VA. USA

Jayne Ann Krentz: Midnight Jewels; Copper Beach

Amanda Quick: Reckless

Elizabeth Lowell: Moving Target

Kay

Susan/DC · Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1598

Karen Ranney's After the Kiss (link to AAR review below). It is the first of her books I read and I liked it -- you'll never look at ribbons in the same way again.

http://likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=650

Manda · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 520

The heroine of Loretta Chase's THE LAST HELLION is a newspaper writer and there is quite a bit about publishing in the story.

The heroine of Anne Mallory's SEVEN SECRETS TO SEDUCTION is a bookseller who is hired to catalog the library of a nobleman.

The secondary hero of Eloisa James' PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE is a gossip columnist in the Regency.

The heroine of Lisa Kleypas' SUDDENLY YOU is a novelist and there is a bit of backdrop in the Victorian publishing industry.

The heroine of Lisa Kleypas' DREAMING OF YOU is also a novelist.

dick · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2255

Elizabeth Thornton's Whisper His Name.

MissRubyJones · Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 78

MissRubyJones · Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 78

Alicia Rasley's wonderful Regency "Poetic Justice" features a super-hot hero who goes all over the world procuring rare manuscripts, and a heroine whose family owns a library of rare books.

Hurry, hurry -- it's free at Amazon right now:
http://www.amazon.com/Justice-Traditional-Regency-Escapades-ebook/dp/B006QNRIEQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1336146257&sr=1-1

Sandlynn · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 1601 Location: Washington, D.C.

What about The Bookseller's Daughter by Pam Rosenthal.

Manda · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 520

Pam Rosenthal also wrote THE EDGE OF IMPROPRIETY which features a heroine who writes silver fork novels and is quite successful at it. IIRC there is some publishing talk with her editor.

Nana · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 893

Courtney Milan's "This Wicked Gift" in The Heart of Christmas anthology features a librarian heroine and bookkeeper hero. It's a great story and unusual for the Regency in that neither character is swimming in wealth and power, with money a huge element for both. It goes into some details of running a subscription lending library - interesting in the age of free public libraries.

Eliza · Joined: 21 Aug 2011 Posts: 718

KayWebbHarrison · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 1207 Location: SE VA. USA