Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Málaga: A Comprehensive Guide to Spain’s Most Hospitable City

Málaga: A Comprehensive Guide to Spain’s Most Hospitable City
  • Author(s): Thomas Martin
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Culture
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Too often overlooked by discerning travellers, Málaga is one of Spain’s most delightful destinations. It’s a city steeped in history stretching back millennia, the centre of a centuries-old wine region, home to dozens of museums and galleries, full of...

Maldives Musings

Maldives Musings
  • Author(s): Liz Banks
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): early 2000s

This is the frank and often funny account of a very brave woman. After many years of marriage and raising a family, Liz Banks found herself alone. Her response? To take a voluntary posting in a different country and...

Malee: A Tear in the Ocean

Malee: A Tear in the Ocean
  • Author(s): William McAllister
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Samui, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A novel of international romance. Michael could not have known when he flew into Bangkok to launch a new company that his life would change so dramatically. Working on million dollar negotiations during the day and spending tropical nights...

Mali Blues Travelling to an African Beat

Mali Blues Travelling to an African Beat
  • Author(s): Lieve Joris
  • Location(s): Mauritania, Mali, Senegal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Travelling through Senegal, Mauritania and Mali, the author sees the inhabitants coping with the hardships and instability that drought, ethnic conflict and rebel uprisings bring. This book also embraces the survival spirit of the people, centring around the Malinese...

Malibu Burning

Malibu Burning
  • Author(s): Lee Goldberg
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Malibu
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what...

Mama Namibia

Mama Namibia
  • Author(s): Mari Serebrov
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1904

Surviving on her own in the desert, 12-year-old Jahohora searches for her family while hiding from the German soldiers. It’s 1904, and Germany has claimed all of South West Africa. Since the Herero would rather fight than surrender their...

Mamele

Mamele
  • Author(s): Gemma Reeves
  • Location(s): Broadstairs
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘When my mother washed my hair she crooned, mamele, mamele, into my ear. Little mother, meaning little daughter, meaning you’re a good girl, Edie.’ Edie lives with her partner Joanna in a crumbling country house in Broadstairs. They have...

Mami Suzuki Private Eye

Mami Suzuki Private Eye
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern day

Beneath the sheen of its orderly streets and obedient populace, all is not well in the port city of Kobe. Business is as brisk as the Haru-ichiban spring breeze for Mami Suzuki, hotel clerk by day, private investigator by...

Man in Armour

Man in Armour
  • Author(s): Siobhan McKenna
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you? An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the world of big money and big deals, written by a...

Manchester Happened

Manchester Happened
  • Author(s): Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
  • Location(s): Uganda, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 21st century

An ambitious and assured collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Kintu If there’s one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi’s stories know, it’s how to field a question. ‘Let me buy you a cup of...

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

Register Now