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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Mills & Boon
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The leading British publishers of romantic fiction. The firm was founded as a general publisher in 1908 by Gerald Mills and Alan Boon, and it was not until the Depression years of the 1930s that it began to specialize in escapist romances. Its rapid growth in the past two decades has been based on creating and marketing the books as a reliable brand-name product. Mills & Boon paperbacks are written to a formula – with specified length, tone, nature of plot and resolution, all described in a manual for the authors entitled Behind the Hearts and Flowers. The books are much sold in newsagents and supermarkets, and by mail order, as well as in bookshops.
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