In the past three years, sales of romance and saga fiction in Britain have risen by 110%, to 53 million pounds every year. This is the highest figure in a decade since 50 Shades of Grey broke all the other records. And publishers are starting to take notes, so everyone in publishing used to regard romantic fiction with slightly Mr Darcy like disdain, and now suddenly their hearts are beating faster for it.
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