Books and Beyond: Literary Lounge: All for love and love for all

Alison and Ineka are joined in the studio by librarian Deehan from Epsom Library. Find your happy ever after as we talk love, romance, soulmates and steam! Check out Dee's latest romance reads on her Bookstagram account: https://www.instagram.com/deeeeeespicks Books mentioned on the show can be requested from the Auckland Libraries catalogue using the links below. Most titles are available in multiple formats. Pick-and-mix: Cute and colourful covers New York Minute / Kate Spencer / 2022 Something wilder / Christina Lauren / 2022 You and me on vacation / Emily Henry / 2021 Loathe to love you / Ali Hazelwood / 2023 PLUS The OG of illustrated romance covers, The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory published 2018 And one more we just couldn't go past - Real men knit / Kwana Jackson / 2020 Love for every body and every mind – Own Voice authored romances featuring neurodiverse, differently abled and chronically ill characters Two wrongs make a right / Chloe Liese / 2022 The kiss quotient / Helen Hoang / 2018 Act your age, Eve Brown (Book 3 of the Brown Sister series) / Talia Hibbert / 2021 See also Book One: Get a life, Chloe Brown and Book 2: Take a hint, Dani Brown. Latinx love stories You had me at Hola / Alexis Daria / 2020 West side love story / Priscilla Oliveras / 2022 Ramon and Julieta / Alana Quintana Albertson LGBTQI+ adult romance - who’s top on BookTok? Red, white and royal blue / Casey McQuiston / 2019 One last stop / Casey McQuiston / 2021 Bridgerton, but make it queer: The queer principles of Kit Webb / Cat Sebastian / 2021 A lady for a duke / Alexis Hall / 2022 Slippery creatures / KJ Charles / 2020 Hot tip! Be one of the first to read Book 1 of KJ Charles’ new Doomsday series, ‘The secret lives of country gentlemen’. Described as ‘Bridgerton meets Poldark’, it’s due on library shelves from March 2023. LGBTQI+ Rom-Coms I’m so (not) over you / Kosoko Jackson / 2022 Written in the stars / Alexandria Bellefleur / 2020(Book 1 in the Written in the stars series – titles are connected by characters but also suitable as stand-alone reads: see also Book 2 Hang the moon and Book 3 Count your lucky stars. Delilah Green Doesn’t Care / Ashley Herring Blake / 2022 Book 1 in the Bright Falls series - see also Book 2, Astrid Parker doesn’t fail.