Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

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

Voices

Voices
  • Author(s): Glynn Burridge
  • Location(s): Seychelles
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Now in its 3rd edition, complete with fresh design and extra stories, the evergreen ‘Voices’ collection of Seychelles short stories by Glynn Burridge describes the strange secrets, realities and fantasies of life on Seychelles’ Outer Islands where the author...

Voices From The Dead

Voices From The Dead
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): West Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A murdered beauty influencer. A buried secret waiting to surface. A killer who’s already one step ahead. In the picturesque Warwickshire town of Queensbridge, a retired nurse escapes to her hotel room looking for peace from the chaos of...

Voices in the Evening

Voices in the Evening
  • Author(s): Natalia Ginzburg
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s & 1950s

In a hushed Italian town after the Second World War, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is of constant concern to her mother, whose status anxiety manifests itself in...

Voices of Change: Short Stories by Saudi Arabian Women Writers

Voices of Change: Short Stories by Saudi Arabian Women Writers
  • Author(s): Abubaker Bagader (editor)
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1970s 1980s, 1990s

This anthology consists of a selection of works from the last three decades of women’s writing in Saudi Arabia. They offer a rare insight into the traditional and changing roles, relationships and expectations of women in a patriarchal society.

Voices of the Fallen Heroes

Voices of the Fallen Heroes
  • Author(s): Yukio Mishima
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, In Translation
  • Era(s): early 20th century

A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary icon A writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and a trio of beatniks dance to modern jazz in the ruins...

Voices of the Lost

Voices of the Lost
  • Author(s): Hoda Barakat
  • Location(s): Middle East
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In an unnamed country torn apart by war, six strangers are compelled to share their darkest secrets. Taking pen to paper, each character attempts to put in writing what they can’t bring themselves to say to the person they...

Void Moon

Void Moon
  • Author(s): Michael Connelly
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A brilliant, high-tension thriller set in the glittery, surreal worlds of Las Vegas casinos, from the bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER. A young woman finds herself caught up in a heist which may cost her the one thing...

Voltaire’s Garden: A memoir of Cobargo

Voltaire’s Garden: A memoir of Cobargo
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Voltaire’s Garden is a memoir of creating a sustainable lifestyle, back-to-earth style, on a fifteen-acre cattle paddock in an idyllic pocket of southeast Australia, made famous by the bushfires of New Year’s Eve 2019. Award-winning author Isobel Blackthorn introduces...

Voss

Voss
  • Author(s): Patrick White
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only on a few occasions, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for...

Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds

Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds
  • Author(s): Sue Jones
  • Location(s): Cheltenham, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

In 1918, after years of campaigning, many British women over the age of 30 gained a parliamentary vote. Cheltenham was the hub of activity in the Cotswolds, and before the First World War it had a number of vigorous...

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

Register Now