Doreen Watt has 44,000 Mills and Boons romance paperback neatly arranged in her Canberra home. Oh, and 3000 hardbacks in the garage. She loves that each book has a happy ending.
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00:00My books that I have for sale start up at the top with author's name starting with A,
00:07down that bookcase, down this one, around the corner, and two more bookcases full,
00:20and then into the back room with three more bookcases.
00:30I have 3,000 hardback Mills and Burns in the garage, not enough room to put them here.
00:44Nine authors in the day, yes. I started collecting Mills and Burns
00:50um starting from about 1974 or 5 and they've come all the way down here
01:01and then continue for another five bookcases,
01:05and they're all double banked. There's another row behind each one of these
01:09and they're trying to fill that collection. I'm still looking for about 80 books to fill
01:19this collection of old numbers. This is what started my collection. I saw the movie in
01:28Canberra called Leopard in the Snow and noticed at the end that in the credits it said Mills and
01:35Burns book, so I decided I've got to read that. So I went looking for it at all the second-hand
01:42bookshops and it took a couple of years but I finally found a copy of it. I love the way
01:49Mills and Burns always have a happy ending. There might be lots of conflict on the way
01:55but in the end they always end up together and happy.