The plot springs straight from a Richard Curtis film: an intrepid, single, flame-haired American abandons her high-flying ...

Shirley Conran, the industrious and proliferous British author whose 1982 novel, “Lace,” was a tale of female autonomy disguised as a bonkbuster (to use the British term for a steamy best ...

President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe's affair has long been documented, but now Shirley Maclaine has made a shocking claim about Marilyn's relationship with John's brother Bobby. Find out ...

Our romance columnist recommends four new books. By Olivia Waite Olivia Waite, the Book Review’s romance fiction columnist, writes queer and historical romance, fantasy and critical essays on ...

Certainly Dame Shirley Conran wrote a lot about sex. And she did dare to use the word “sexual”—and indeed “panting”. Not to mention “gasping”, “throbbing” and “writhing”.

Author and campaigner Dame Shirley Conran rose to fame in the late 70s writing about the expectations on women to be superwomen, coining the phrase “life is too short to stuff a mushroom”. The 91-year ...

Shirley Phillips made her first emergency landing at the Manchester Airport when she lost an engine and had to glide in. Now she will be at Balin Books in Nashua on Saturday at 2 p.m. to discuss her ...

A romance bookstore - the first in the Boston area - has opened its doors in Cambridge, giving fans of the genre the chance to revel in romantic reads.