Corín Tellado

If you grew up in a Spanish-speaking household, there's a good chance Corín Tellado was on a shelf somewhere. Writing from Spain across the second half of the twentieth century, she produced an astonishing number of short, swift-moving romance novelas that were sold at newsstands and passed hand to hand. UNESCO once named her among the most-read writers in Spanish, and her sales ran into the hundreds of millions.

Her stories are compact and warm-hearted — courtships, misunderstandings, and reconciliations that resolve cleanly and kindly. They're a window into a particular tradition of popular romance: quick to read, gentle in content, and endlessly reassuring. We've catalogued her enormous backlist here so it's browsable in one place.

• For readers who love classic, fast-reading romance in the mid-century newsstand tradition
• Gentle heat — courtship and emotion rather than explicit scenes
• An enormous backlist, perfect for readers who like to settle into one author for a long stretch