The real feeling of love and affection can be created through romantic books. To get lost in the beautiful world of love and romance, there can be no better idea than to check out some Valentine romantic books below that can all be found at Word for Word book shop, Castille Place, Valletta.
No Strings Attached by Clare Dowling
Judy is getting married on Saturday and it's going to be the happiest day of her life. But the night before the nuptials, fiancé Barry mysteriously goes missing, wearing nothing but his pyjamas. To add insult to injury, his credit card shows up two days later in the south of France.
What happened to give him cold feet?
Fanning Judy's fury and grief is Lenny - Barry's best man and king of the one-night stands. Lenny argues that you shouldn't let commitment ruin a perfectly good relationship. With the love of her life romping around France, Judy just might be in the mood for a little romance - with no strings attached, of course....
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
Junchow, China, 1928. Exiled from her home during the Bolshevik Revolution, her father presumed dead, Lydia Ivanova is now living with her mother, Valentina, in China.
Survival is hard. Valentina has descended into a life of secrecy, depression and alcoholism, and Lydia is forced to steal to pay their rent and find them food. One day at the market, she is caught red-handed with a gentleman's watch in her pocket. Hauled into a side street by a policemen and facing certain death, Lydia is saved by Chang An Lo, a local boy on the run from the authorities for his Communist sympathies. This chance meeting will change both their lives for ever.
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
Ex- soldier Logan Thibault thinks he just might have found the one. Haunted by memories of the friends he lost in Iraq, Logan knows how fortunate he is to be home. He believes that a photograph he carried with him, a picture of a smiling woman he's never met, kept him safe.
Resolving to find her, Logan embarks on a journey of startling discovery. Beth, the women whose picture he holds, is struggling with problems of her own; her volatile ex-husband won't accept their relationship is over and threatens anyone who gets too close to her. And, despite a growing attraction between them, Logan has kept one explosive secret from Beth: how he came across her photograph in the first place...
Moontide by E.V Thompson
Local landowner John Bettison has forbidden his workers to attend church, but when curate Toby Lowell arrives in Porthluney, he is determined to bring about change. Injured during the Battle of Trafalgar, Toby is used to facing adversity but little does he realise the challenge that lies ahead of him.
The trouble really starts when Toby fell in love with Bethany Poole, a local Quaker girl. When her society rejects her, she turns to Toby for support, by a dreadful misunderstanding involving Bettison forces her to leave without a word of explanation and Toby will not rest until they are reunited. Set on Cromwall's south coast in the early nineteenth century, Moontide is a captivating tale of loves lost and found.
No Fond Return Of Love by Barbara Pym
Dulcie Mainwarng is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is bested by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things alone?
Aylwin, however, is smitten with Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it might be, is falling, just a little, for Alywin.
Once life's little humiliations are played out, maybe love will be returned, and fondly after all...
Villa Serena by Domenica De Rosa
Emily Robertson looks like she has it all, the lovingly restored dream house in the Tuscan hills, three beautiful children and the successful attentive husband. Then a text message spoils everything.
How will she cope, stranded in the Italian countryside with no man, no money, dodgy Italian phrasebook and a psychotic cleaner? One thing is for sure, that all the olive groves and crusty ciabatta's in the world won't save them.
Yes just as she's about to admit defeat. Emily finds herself drawn into the village of Monet Albano and discovering the real Italy, a place darker and more magical than she had ever imagines. But she can trust the reckless and handsome Raffaello, who turns up mysteriously one day at the villa, or get over her obsession with her first love - the main who inspired her passion for Italy?
A Thousand Paths To Love by David Baird
A Fresh look at traditional wisdom, this indispensable book provides 1000 wise, witty and inspiring thoughts. The perfect companion for enlighten in the 21st century.
1000 Reasons I Love U by Rebecca Hall
An inspiring collection of 1000 thoughts, insights and quotations on that most universal subject-love. This romantic volume makes the perfect gift.
1000 Romantic - Things to Say and Do by Alice Stuart
Love remains a delightful mystery to us all, young or old.
But while you're still trying to figure out what it is that makes your heart skip a beat, why don't you stop to show your loved one how much you care? 1000 Romantic Things to Say and Do is loaded with arrows straight from Cupid 's bow. Packed with quotations, recipes, ideas for gifts, and inspiring thoughts, this is the book that will help rekindle the oldest flame or make that budding romance bloom.
Rosa and the Veil of Gold by Kim Wilkins
Beyond this world, behind the veil of history, lies the kingdom of the Rus, the land where all the magic fled..
Rosa Kovalenka is wild and beautiful and broken; when she returned to Russia, her homeland, she left behind her lover Daniel, and part of herself. She is trying to rebuild her life when she finds a golden bear, hidden in a bathhouse wall, and her inherited Second Sight recognises the sudden last of power as something otherworldly, something dangerous.
Released from the protection of the bathhouse, the golden bear starts to recall the magic that once raged through the land of Rus.
Daniel, all unwitting, has been caught up in the golden bear's magic, and to save him, Rosa, trapped herself in a shadowy tangle of grief and desire, must draw on her her own untried powers to rescue her lover and mend the Veil between the worlds.