It's that time again - the Romantic Novelists' Association have just announced their shortlist for this year's Romantic Novel of the Year award. Six books have been selected from a long list which included best-selling authors such as Penny Vincenzi, Janet Macleod Trotter, Lisa Kleypas and Lilian Harry.
This year's shorlist is made up of five established writers and an up and coming writer. It includes Wales' answer to Catherine Cookson, Catrin Collier, with One Last Summer, a saga set in Russia. I've read a couple of Catrin's books and they were wonderful. Full of period detail, authenticity, tragedy, survival and romance, of course!
Previous winner Maureen Lee has also made the shortlist with The Leaving of Liverpool. I've read Maureen's previous award-winning book, Dancing in the Dark, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
The third saga on the list is by new writer Catherine King. Her book is called Silk and Steel and again, it looks really good.
Next, we've got two chick lit titles - Adele Parks, Young Wives' Tale and Freya North's Pillow Talk. I never read anything by Adele; and the one book by Freya North I read, I couldn't get past page 12.
The last shortlisted book is by another previous winner - Jojo Moyes' Silver Bay. I read her first book Sheltering Rain and I had enjoyed it and this looks good too.
Best of luck to all the shortlisted books, and massive congratulations to them all. I look forward to the short list of the category romance books soon!
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