Mills & Boon
British romance imprint
Mills & Boon is a British publisher of romance novels, known for formulaic stories featuring passionate love affairs and happy endings.
The name has become shorthand for this genre of sentimental, escapist fiction: The plot read like something out of Mills & Boon.
Often used dismissively to suggest overwrought emotion or unrealistic romantic scenarios.
- romanceLove and its excitement
- romantic fictionLiterature centered on love
- love storyNarrative of romantic involvement
- paperbackBook with flexible cover
- beach readLight vacation novel
guilty pleasure · love · passion · bodice-ripper · Harlequin · swept · heartbeat · desire · embrace · kiss · heroine · duke · billionaire · tall dark stranger · alpha male · forbidden · longing · seduction
Mills & Boonliterary fiction
Prose emphasizing craft and depth
Virginia Woolf · James Joyce · Dostoevsky · Marcel Proust · Penguin Classics
Mills & BoonCormac McCarthy
tragedy · The Road · grimdark · dystopian fiction · Thomas Hardy
Mills & Boonhorror fiction
Writing intended to terrify
war novels · crime fiction · true crime · Tom Clancy · Stephen King