 Literary fiction historical romances continue to be published, and a notable recent example is "Wolf Hall" (2009), a multi-award-winning novel by English historical novelist Hilary Mantel.It is also a genre of mass-market fiction, which is related to the broader romantic love genre.The terms "romance novel" and "historical romance" are ambiguous, because the word "romance", and the associated word "romantic", have a number of different meanings.