Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

A Death in Mayfair

A Death in Mayfair
  • Author(s): Mark Ellis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): WW2 1941

December 1941. On a bright Sunday morning in Hawaii, Japanese planes swoop down and attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbour. America enters the war and Britain no longer stands alone against Hitler. Conditions on the home front...

A Death in the Dales

A Death in the Dales
  • Author(s): Frances Brody
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present looking back

A murder most foul When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight, Freda Simonson, the only witness to the crime, becomes plagued with guilt, believing the wrong man has been convicted. Following her death, it...

A Degree of Uncertainty

A Degree of Uncertainty
  • Author(s): Nicola K Smith
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Tensions are rising in the West Cornwall town of Poltowan… Harry Manchester will not stand by and see his beloved hometown turned into a student ghetto — and many residents and students are relying on him. But Harry’s stance...

A Discovery of Witches

A Discovery of Witches
  • Author(s): Deborah Harkness
  • Location(s): Oxford, Limousin, Madison (NY), New Orleans, St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in...

A Drowning Tide

A Drowning Tide
  • Author(s): Sarah Lawton
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Written with panache, A Drowning Tide announces the arrival of a duo that might just come to rival the Thursday Murder Club” DAILY MAIL When her next-door neighbour goes missing, reclusive Merry dives into an irresistible puzzle. Merry lives...

A Family Affair

A Family Affair
  • Author(s): Julie Houston
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Frankie Piccione is done running away from her responsibilities – well, for now, anyway. Two years after fleeing Westenbury with a shattered heart, it’s time to return and take up her place on the board of the family business....

A Fatal Reunion

A Fatal Reunion
  • Author(s): Malcolm Forsythe
  • Location(s): Wivenhoe, Essex
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): 1990s

John Dennison died quietly; silence disturbed only by the sound of his legs threshing the bedsheets as the man astride his chest choked him. DCI Millson suspects that Dennison’s killer is Albert Smedley, the jealous husband heard quarrelling with...

A Fatal Silence

A Fatal Silence
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Detective Kay Hunter Book 14) After the music stops, the killing begins… When the body of a young woman is discovered at an outdoor music festival, Detective Kay Hunter’s investigation stalls almost as soon as it starts. Because the...

A French Affair

A French Affair
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House – an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English countryside. Gina is determined to drag the French House and its grumpy owner into the twenty-first...

A Gathering of Ghosts

A Gathering of Ghosts
  • Author(s): Karen Maitland
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): 1300s

1316. On the wilds of Dartmoor stands the isolated Priory of St Mary, home to the Sisters of the Knights of St John. People journey from afar in search of healing at the holy well that lies beneath its...

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

Register Now