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Good Reading : February 2016
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gr’s top romance novels of 2015 Geoffrey Chaucer, creator of The Canterbury Tales, was one of the first authors to link St Valentine with romance. In his poem ‘The Parliament of Foules’, an assembly of birds have gathered to choose their mates. But Chaucer was probably wr iting about 3 May – the day of commemoration for St Valentine of Genoa – rather than 14 February. It makes more sense that birds would be mating in the spring, as opposed to 14 February, when the northern hemisphere is still in winter! • Love in Small Letters by Francesc Miralles • The Spring Bride by Anne Gracie • The Saddler Boys by Fiona Palmer • The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild • Another Day by David Levithan ... and a classic from 1995 ... Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave love b i rds Final page of ‘The Romaunt of the Rose’ and opening page of ‘The Parliament of Foules’ ROMANCE ROUND-UP GOOD READING FEBRUARY 2016 33
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