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The Accidental Mother

The Accidental Mother
  • Author(s): Rowan Coleman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sophie Mills has worked her Manolo Blahniks off to reach the near-top of her profession. And she’s very happy with her priorities in life – her job, her neurotic cat Artemis and her passion for shoes. After all, relationships...

The Accidental Plus One Down Under

The Accidental Plus One Down Under
  • Author(s): Alison Ripley Cubitt
  • Location(s): Australia, Canada, New Zealand (Aotearoa), United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
  • Era(s): Era: Contemporary

New Year’s Eve 2019 While everyone else is popping champagne corks and ringing in a new decade, Alison—The Accidental Plus One—is crammed into a flying tin can somewhere over the Equator, obsessing over whether she remembered to lock the...

The Accidental Plus One: Travel Tales From a Trailing Spouse

The Accidental Plus One: Travel Tales From a Trailing Spouse
  • Author(s): Alison Ripley Cubitt
  • Location(s): Australia, Europe, New Zealand (Aotearoa), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s to 2020

A burnt-out media executive. A chance to leave it all behind. Can she take that leap into the unknown, or is she doomed to fail? Alison was stuck going nowhere. Her shiny career had well and truly lost its...

The Accidental Recluse

The Accidental Recluse
  • Author(s): Tom McCulloch
  • Location(s): Japan, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Johnny Jackson used to be a famous film director, but his brother Duke was a hero. Just turned 75, JJ is heading home from exile in Japan for one last blockbuster and a civic honouring. But home is where...

The Accidentals

The Accidentals
  • Author(s): Minrose Gwin
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s/60s

Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their...

The Accomplice

The Accomplice
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Germany
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH  Max Weill has never forgotten the face of Otto Schramm, a doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. A NAZI...

The Accursed

The Accursed
  • Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
  • Location(s): Princeton, New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): turn of 20th century

An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th-century Princeton. Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a neighbouring farm, muck-raking novelist...

The Accusation

The Accusation
  • Author(s): Bandi
  • Location(s): North Korea
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around...

The Accused

The Accused
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2021

When Private Investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on a cold case, he is drawn back into Glasgow’s dark underworld… Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron knew Kim Rafferty was bad news the moment they met. Desperate people always spelled trouble...

The Acorn Stories

The Acorn Stories
  • Author(s): Duane Simolke
  • Location(s): West Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Late twentieth century

From romantic comedy to razor-sharp satire to moments of quiet reflection, these tales transform a fictional West Texas town into a tapestry of human experiences. “A lush tangle of small-town life branches out in this engrossing collection of short...

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