Get Into Reading: Romance

Oliver Bolland leads a reading session on romance at Books on the Hill on Wednesday 11 November, and it's the one that closes out the 2026 Get Into Reading genre programme. If you've been following the series throughout the year, this is the final stop.

The session is built around a reading list that Bolland describes as deliberately broad. It doesn't stick to one corner of the genre; it reaches across comedy, contemporary fiction, romantasy and translated work, so it's less about a single tradition and more about how wide romance can stretch. The idea is to look at the common thread across those different styles rather than just sticking to the familiar.

Books on the Hill, on Holywell Hill, is an independent St Albans bookshop that runs its own programme of author events, book launches, signings and literary activities, and this session fits right into that. It's a reading group rather than a lecture, so it's about talking through the books and the ideas they bring up, with Bolland leading the conversation.

It starts at 19:00 on Wednesday 11 November, and tickets are £15.