Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Where You Go, I Will Go

Where You Go, I Will Go
  • Author(s): Christina Fonthes
  • Location(s): Kinshasa, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 2004

London, 2004. Bijoux has a secret. To the world, she is the obedient child, dutifully attending prayer meetings and following the rigid expectations of her silent and austere Pentecostal aunt, Tantine Mireille. But Bijoux is in love with a...

Whips

Whips
  • Author(s): Cleo Watson
  • Location(s): Westminster
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020s

Westminster in the 2020s, where the business of governing is the last thing on the agenda for anyone worth their salt. In the SW1 bubble, politics moves fast, schemes are hatched and foiled – through both accident and conspiracy...

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s, Modern

In this unusual novel, lain Sinclair draws a powerful portrait of London’s criminal character by mingling secrets of the modern city with menacing personas from its Victorian age. A clan of profiteering book dealers becomes obsessed with the 1888...

White City

White City
  • Author(s): Dominic Nolan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

It’s 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs. An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious,...

White Riot

White Riot
  • Author(s): Joe Thomas
  • Location(s): Hackney
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s/80s

1978: The National Front is gaining ground in Hackney. To counter their influence, anti-fascist groups launch the Carnival Against Racism in Victoria Park. Observing the event is Detective Constable Patrick Noble, charged with investigating racist attacks in the area...

White Teeth

White Teeth
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s-90s

This is a hilarious and poignant story of two North London families, headed by Archie and by Archie’s best friend and Samas Iqbal, a Muslim originally from Bengal. An unlikely friendship they served together in the Second World War....

Who They Was

Who They Was
  • Author(s): Gabriel Krauze
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is a story of a London you won’t find in any guidebooks. This is a story about what it’s like to exist in the moment, about boys too eager to become men, growing up in the hidden war...

Widowland

Widowland
  • Author(s): C J Carey
  • Location(s): London, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Dystopian
  • Era(s): 1953

To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year – but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany...

Wife

Wife
  • Author(s): Charlotte Mendelson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): contemporary

Set in the world of London academia, both past and present, Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is heart-breaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the reader from the end of a relationship to its beginning, and back again....

Wild Boy

Wild Boy
  • Author(s): Rob Lloyd Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

A fiendishly pacy mystery-adventure story for 9+ readers, set in the seamy, smoggy underworld of Victorian London. BEHOLD THE SAVAGE SPECTACLE OF THE WILD BOY! London, 1841. A boy covered in hair, raised as a monster, condemned to life...

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

Register Now