Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

The location "Lewis" was not recognised, please select one from the drop-down menu when typing.

The Red Die

The Red Die
  • Author(s): Alex MacBeth
  • Location(s): Mozambique
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2014

The body of a white man in a suit washes into the bay of the rural African district of Mossuril, a place normally so quiet for law enforcement a whole day can pass without a misdemeanour occurring. Comandante Felisberto...

The Red Heart of Jade

The Red Heart of Jade
  • Author(s): Marjorie M Liu
  • Location(s): Taiwan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The grisly murders are just the beginning. Dean Campbell, ex-cop and clairvoyant, is sent to investigate. He is with the Dirk & Steele Detective Agency, that global association of more-than-human men and women. Shapeshifters, psychics and other paranormals, Dean...

The Red Lotus

The Red Lotus
  • Author(s): Chris Bohjalian
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor...

The Red Pavillion

The Red Pavillion
  • Author(s): Jean Chapman
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1948

Liz Hammond and her mother Blanche are returning to the rubber plantation they were forced to abandon at the outbreak of war. The beautiful Malayan jungle and exotic estate of her childhood have remained in Liz’s heart even after...

The Red Ribbon

The Red Ribbon
  • Author(s): Lucy Adlington
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is...

The Red Room

The Red Room
  • Author(s): August Strindberg
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

The flax merchant, Charles Nicholas Falk—son of the late flax merchant, one of the fifty elders of the burgesses, captain of the infantry of militia, vestryman and member of the Board of Administration of the Stockholm Fire Insurance, Charles...

The Red Scarf

The Red Scarf
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Siberia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd,...

The Red Shoes Mystery

The Red Shoes Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A desperate plea. A tangled web. Lead investigators O’Shea and Maguire face their most challenging case yet—the mysterious death of Maria Hyka. As Maguire and her team dig deeper, they uncover connections to a shadowy underworld. Their journey leads...

The Red-Haired Woman

The Red-Haired Woman
  • Author(s): Orhan Pamuk
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a...

The Redeemed

The Redeemed
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): The West Country
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1 on

It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads of his boyhood seem very far away...

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

Register Now