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The Accidental Empress

The Accidental Empress
  • Author(s): Allison Pataki
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s onwards

The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe’s most powerful ruling family. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry. Fifteen-year-old Elisabeth, “Sisi,” Duchess...

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
  • Author(s): Jonas Jonasson
  • Location(s): North Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean...

The Accidental Holiday

The Accidental Holiday
  • Author(s): Mimi Deb
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to Mallorca with this cute, forced proximity romcom – the perfect beach read A totally gorgeous and escapist romcom. Fans of Beth O’Leary and Emily Henry will be totally hooked from the very first page. Maya loves structure....

The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar

The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar
  • Author(s): Aimee Alexander
  • Location(s): Ireland, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Arigho’s first encounter with Greg Millar is far from promising, but she soon realises he possesses a charm that is impossible to resist. Just eight whirlwind weeks after their first meeting, level-headed career girl Lucy is seriously considering...

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...

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