Romance novels are enjoying a boom and even their own dedicated bookshops.
The book, Once Upon a Letter, has 30 stories written by young islanders in the form of a letter.
The letters, books and notes document the friendship between the writer and a profoundly deaf fan.
Matthew Maxwell Scott was a great-great-great-great grandson of the famous novelist.
The protagonist of the epic poem is a heroic male – but the story is shaped by the stratagems and seductions of the women, nymphs and goddesses he meets along the way.
Brighton-born Patrice Lawrence will be the main representative of children's literature until 2028.
Authors Louis de Bernières and Brogen Murphy will appear alongside poets, historians and journalists.
The profoundly deaf Eileen Elgar had many questions about the Oxford author's "amazing books".
Starlin Marot is opening Bad Girl Books, the UK's first bookshop dedicated entirely to romantasy.
