To ask your favourite romantic pairings in fiction?

[Theundertaker]

I'd really like some ideas for something new to read or watch with some element of romance.

Have previously loved:
Elizabeth and Darcy
Jane and Rochester
Harriet Vane and Peter Wimsey
Robin and Strike
Linden and Holder
Mulder and Scully
Margaret Hale and Mr Thornton
Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister

Please give me your favourites.

So glad to see a bunch of Heyers mentioned!

I’d add Abby and Miles Calverleigh and Kitty and Freddy.

Gen & Attolia (The Queen's Thief).

Charles and Sebastian
Daphne and Hari
Lucy Snowe and M. Emmanuel.

(A bit of a doomed love theme going on here)

And YES to Sophie and Howl.

Matilde and Matthew Bartholomew

Snape and Hermione?

Jamie and Claire
Jamie and John Grey
Rachel and Joey (can't stand Ross)

Aramis and the Queen (BBC Musketeers)

Matthew and Mary (Downton Abbey)

Jack and Rebecca (This is Us)

Jane and Rafael (Jane the Virgin)

Ahhh my heart!!

Bendrix and Sarah in The End of The Affair. Jealousy, obsession, religion and doomed love, what’s not to love!

Has anyone said Rory Gilmore & Jess what’s-his-face?

Claire and Jamie from Outlander. The books are much better than the tv series.

Jamie and Claire

if you like Jane Austen have you read any Georgette Heyer? Try Venetia.

Lucy Snowe and M. Emmanuel.

I don't know about that one. Personally I thought she had him bang to rights first time, when she says a more arrogant little man never filled a Professor's chair.

He's not as bad as Rochester, but bad enough. Makes you wonder whatever kind of a man M. Hegel must have been!

Hannibal and Clarice is an interesting one. I've been reading some stuff about that character being the successor of the Gothic and vampire narrative. There's something a bit supernatural about his uncanny powers of perception, and the Bride of Dracula idea comes across very clearly in the ending of the book Hannibal, which I didn't find quite so unbelievable as the film-makers apparently did. Harris drew the build-up to that one very well, I thought.

But as to the homicidal mania and cannibalism, red flags everywhere. LTB!

Gabby and Carlos (Desperate Housewives)
Chuck and Blair (Gossip Girl)

No spoilers but certain couples from A Court of Thorns & Roses series!

Valancy and Barney Snaith
Miss Pettigrew and Joe

So pleased to see al the love for A Town Like Alice, I just love this book and all the relationships in it.

Also Bagoas and Alexander is the most romantic romance I have ever read. It made me think of Simonides and Lyra, Lysis and Alexias and Theseus and Hippolyta.

Christina and William, Flambards 🐎

I think we read a lot of the same books! But who are Bagoas and Alexander, and where do I read about them?

This is my second reply I should say!

Can’t believe how many people like Anne and Wentworth - I can’t stand Anne Elliot/ Wentworth 😂

A modern/ less well know one, but the guys from Stephen Fry’s Making History. I can’t remember their names though…

I mean the main character

Was glad I was first to say young Cathy and Hareton!

I've now just started re reading a town like Alice I'd forgotten how much I loved it.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

"Lucy Snowe and M. Emmanuel.

I don't know about that one. Personally I thought she had him bang to rights first time, when she says a more arrogant little man never filled a Professor's chair.

He's not as bad as Rochester, but bad enough. Makes you wonder whatever kind"

And now I'm going to have to re read this 

InsertPunHere - it is the middle book in Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy, called The Persian Boy. I read it once a year at least.