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All Adults Here

All Adults Here
  • Author(s): Emma Straub
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After Astrid Strick – a widowed, 68-year-old mother of three living in upstate New York – witnesses an accident, she resolves to live more honestly. Starting with the mistakes she made in raising her family. But are her kids,...

All Day at the Movies

All Day at the Movies
  • Author(s): Fiona Kidman
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s to present

In 1952, war widow Irene takes her young daughter to start a new life in New Zealand’s tobacco fields. But tragedy forces her into the arms of Jock, whose actions will haunt the lives of the couple’s future children–though...

All I Want for Christmas

All I Want for Christmas
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three first dates and an art-world mystery – it’s going to be a busy Christmas for Darcy. All I Want for Christmas is the Sunday Times bestselling cosy winter romance from Karen Swan, author of Christmas By Candlelight. Can...

All Involved

All Involved
  • Author(s): Ryan Gattis
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older brother has been stabbed to death, his body left out in the road to rot. He was never involved. He was innocent. He didn’t even carry a gun. And...

All That I Have

All That I Have
  • Author(s): Castle Freeman
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wing is an experienced, practical man who enforces the law in his corner of Vermont with a steady hand and a generous tolerance. But when local tearaway Sean ‘Superboy’ Duke starts to get tangled up with a group of...

All the hopeful Lovers

All the hopeful Lovers
  • Author(s): William Nicholson
  • Location(s): Lewes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book loosely follows on from The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life. Belinda wistfully reflects how much better at sex she is now than when she was in her twenties. She’s thought about taking a lover, but ultimately could...

All the Little Bird-Hearts

All the Little Bird-Hearts
  • Author(s): Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing...

All the Rivers Run

All the Rivers Run
  • Author(s): Nancy Cato
  • Location(s): Victoria

Philadelphia Gordon is an artist, a riverboat skipper and a beautiful, independent woman. Orphaned by a shipwreck, Philadelphia grows up on the banks of her beloved Murray River in Australia with her kindly uncle and strict aunt, seemingly destined...

All This Belongs To Me

All This Belongs To Me
  • Author(s): Petra Hůlová (Petra Hulova)
  • Location(s): Mongolia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century Modern

Petra Hulova became an overnight sensation when “All This Belongs to Me” was originally published in Czech in 2002, when the author was just twenty-three years old. The novel comprises the strong voices of five women from three generations...

All Tomorrow’s Parties

All Tomorrow’s Parties
  • Author(s): Nicole Fitton
  • Location(s): Italy, London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980

Set in the music industry of 1980’s London, All Tomorrow’s Parties is a journey through life and love. Laine Marshall isn’t a product of the 1980s she is the epitome of it. 18 years of age and working for...

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