Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Lookaway, Lookaway

Lookaway, Lookaway
  • Author(s): Wilton Barnhardt
  • Location(s): Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina’s high society, where old Southern money—and older Southern secrets—meet the new wealth of bankers, boom-era speculators, and carpetbagging social climbers. Steely and implacable, Jerene presides over...

Looker

Looker
  • Author(s): Laura Sims
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Have you ever wanted to steal someone else’s life? The Professor lives in Brooklyn; her partner Nathan has left her; she can’t have a baby. All she’s left with is Nathan’s old moggy, Cat. Who she doesn’t even like....

Looking for Chet Baker

Looking for Chet Baker
  • Author(s): Bill Moody
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

Looking for Dilmun

Looking for Dilmun
  • Author(s): Geoffrey Bibby
  • Location(s): Bahrain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1960s

Dilmun was a land which stretched beyond the confines of Bahrain, as far north as Kuwait, and as far south as Saudi Arabia. The quest for the real Dilmun began when the author revisited Bahrain in order to explore...

Looking for Eliza

Looking for Eliza
  • Author(s): Leaf Arbuthnot
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ada is a widowed writer, navigating loneliness in Oxford after the death of her husband. She has no children. No grandchildren. She fears she is becoming peripheral, another invisible woman. Eliza is a student at the university. She finds...

Looking For Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage

Looking For Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage
  • Author(s): Laura Treacy Bentley
  • Location(s): Ireland, Appalachian Mountains
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Journey from Appalachia to Ireland in Looking For Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage. Both chapbook and a work of art, her book creates a seamless alchemy of elegant poems and stunning photographs. “In one of the poems in her luminous...

Looking for Lord Ganesh

Looking for Lord Ganesh
  • Author(s): Mahtab Narsimhan, Sonja Wimmer (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Anika has recently emigrated from India and is having a difficult time adjusting to life in a new country not to mention life in a new school. Remembering the advice her grandmother gave her, she prays to Lord Ganesh,...

Looking for Lucie

Looking for Lucie
  • Author(s): Amanda Addison
  • Location(s): Norwich
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Looking for Lucie is a contemporary YA novel that explores identity, self-discovery, and newfound friendship as an 18-year-old girl sets out to uncover her ethnic heritage and family history. “Where are you really from?” It’s a question every brown...

Looking for Lucy

Looking for Lucy
  • Author(s): Julie Houston
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Clementine needs to find Lucy before it’s all too late. She also knows bringing up a child on your own down on Emerald Street where the street walkers ply their trade isn’t easy, even when your daughter’s as adorable...

Looking for the Durrells

Looking for the Durrells
  • Author(s): Melanie Hewitt
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a year that sees a broken-off engagement and the death of her beloved father, Penny is desperate to get away. Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a month-long pilgrimage to Corfu–an island idyll she knows only...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now