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Penguin Picks for Valentine's Day

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Find your true love in book form...

Valentine’s Day, love it or hate it, it’s certainly a great excuse to spoil yourself, your partner or your best friend with a book! Read on for some romance related recommendations...

Historical romance

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë's classic novel with cover artwork from Emerald Fennell’s major new film starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

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Alcott Hall

A spicy ‘Why choose’ regency romance set five years after the initial SECOND SONS duology by viral TikTok sensation, Emily Rath.

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The Geographer's Map to Romance

Geography professors in a failed marriage of convenience inconveniently reconnect for an emergency mission in this swoony yet cosy historical-fantasy rom-com

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Real-life love

The Queen's Wife

A modern love story: whakapapa, archaeology, art and heartbreak.

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Everything I Know About Love

The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way

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The Crane Wife

'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee

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Books on love

Dear Dolly

From the bestselling and beloved author of Everything I Know about Love and Ghosts: a collection of her favourite Dear Dolly agony aunt letters and answers from her hugely popular Sunday Times Style column: with an introduction by Dolly.

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Conversations on Love

The top 10 Sunday Times bestseller - a celebration of love in all its forms

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Atlas of the Heart

This major new work from the international bestselling author of Gifts of Imperfection and Dare to Lead examines the 87 emotions and experiences that define us, and provides a compelling framework to help us all become more emotionally fluent and connected.

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Non-romantic love!

How to Loiter In a Turf War

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile artists.

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming

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We All Want Impossible Things

'One of my favourite books ever' Marian Keyes; 'Dazzling' Rachel Joyce; 'You'll devour every word' Katherine Heiny; for fans of Nora Ephron and Sorrow and Bliss, a heart-wrenching, laugh-out-loud celebration of friendship at its imperfect and radiant best.

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