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New and Upcoming Romance Reads

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Stories to fall in love with

Check out these exciting new and upcoming romance reads! Whether it's romantic love, platonic love, or life after love, Penguin is the home of love stories.

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At the Going Down of the Sun

An epic romantic adventure of love and war inspired by true ANZAC heroes.

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The Rivertown Vet

A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance, by a favourite Australian author.

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The Studio Girls

The Studio Girls is a sumptuous, nostalgic journey back to the glamorous Golden Age of cinema and the intoxicating world of Tinseltown, where nothing is quite what it seems . . .

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Sample Chapters

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The Rivertown Vet

Jana stood beneath a lonely, old swamp paperbark.

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The Studio Girls

I can’t get the sound of the camera shutter out of my mind.

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