Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Palaver

Palaver
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

IN TOKYO, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He’s entangled with a married man, too. But while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged...

Palazzo

Palazzo
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Italy, Rome, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the elegant four-hundred-year-old family palazzo...

Pale Souls Abroad

Pale Souls Abroad
  • Author(s): Ulysses C Kibuuka
  • Location(s): Uganda
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): various centuries

The author subtly weaves encyclopedic knowledge of Uganda’s indigenous languages and history to create chronicles of a country with a complex past and uncertain future. He creates vivid tales of the legacy of foreign interventions, domestic powers, and individuals...

Palermo

Palermo
  • Author(s): Roberto Alajmo
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Various

The siren-like qualities of the Sicilian capital are woven layer upon layer, each one revealing a stratum of the city’s character. In Palermo, Robert Alajmo lays out a compelling series of reflections on the city’s apparently endless facets. Disguised...

Palette of Secrets

Palette of Secrets
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Costa del Sol, Marbella
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s and later

As a young woman Nancy made some mistakes. Now her past is coming back to haunt her. Nancy Miller, once a well-known artist, spends her time quietly in the south of Spain. One day her agent tells her she...

Palisade

Palisade
  • Author(s): Lou Gilmond
  • Location(s): London, Westminster
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Kanha and Colbey Thrillers Book 2) When opposition Chief Whip Esme Kanha is handed a secret dossier containing evidence of government corruption, she suspects its original owner, a top journalist, was murdered for gathering it. Despite the danger, she...

Palisades Park

Palisades Park
  • Author(s): Alan Brennert
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s to 1971

Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey—especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her...

Palm Meridian

Palm Meridian
  • Author(s): Grace Flahive
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Future, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2067

It’s 2067 at Palm Meridian Retirement Resort, Florida, and the last day of Hannah’s life. Tomorrow, as the sun burns the dew off the lawns, she’ll close her eyes for the very last time. But she won’t be going...

Palm Trees in the Snow

Palm Trees in the Snow
  • Author(s): Luz Gabás
  • Location(s): Equatorial Guinea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At once an epic family drama and a sweeping love story that spans both an ocean and a generation, Palm Trees in the Snow is an emotionally gripping and historically vivid tale of the secrets that can destroy a...

Palmares

Palmares
  • Author(s): Gayl Jones
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

AN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LIBERATION SET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL BRAZIL From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where fugitive slaves live free. But can this promised land...

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

Register Now