Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Hot Stew

Hot Stew
  • Author(s): Fiona Mozley
  • Location(s): Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

‘Hot Stew reads like a great night out in a city that never sleeps’ Jan Carson ‘Fiona Mozley not only fulfills her promise but surpasses it. Her new stew is such a steaming, fuming mix of life, lust and...

Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon
  • Author(s): Imogen Edwards Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules...

House of Cards

House of Cards
  • Author(s): Michael Dobbs
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Political
  • Era(s): 1980s

The bestselling political thriller that introduced the scheming Francis Urguhart – the most memorable politician of the last decade. Francis Urquhart is Chief Whip. He has his hands on every secret in politics – and is willing to betray...

House of Shadows

House of Shadows
  • Author(s): Nicola Cornick
  • Location(s): London, Oxfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th, 19th century, modern

London, 1662: There was something the Winter Queen needed to tell him. She fought for the strength to speak. ‘The crystal mirror is a danger. It must be destroyed – ‘ He replied instantly. ‘It will’. Ashdown, Oxfordshire, present...

House of Trelawney

House of Trelawney
  • Author(s): Hannah Rothschild
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The seat of the Trelawney family for over 800 years, Trelawney Castle was once the jewel of the Cornish coast. Each successive Earl spent with abandon, turning the house and grounds into a sprawling, extravagant palimpsest of wings, turrets...

How Far We Fall

How Far We Fall
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): London, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The perfect couple Meeting Albie gave Beth a fresh start – a chance to leave her past behind. Now she has her new husband; an ambitious, talented young neurosurgeon. The perfect marriage Their marriage gives Beth the safe haven...

How I Wonder What You Are

How I Wonder What You Are
  • Author(s): Jane Lovering
  • Location(s): North York Moors
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Maybe he wasn’t there because of the lights – maybe they were there because of him…’ It’s been over eighteen months since Molly Gilchrist has had a man (as her best friend, Caro, is so fond of reminding her),...

How to be both

How to be both
  • Author(s): Ali Smith
  • Location(s): England, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 15th Century

How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a renaissance artist of the 1460s....

How to be Good

How to be Good
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): early 2000s

‘I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don’t want to be married to him any more. . . ‘ London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her...

How to Cheat Your Own Death

How to Cheat Your Own Death
  • Author(s): Kristen Perrin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s / Contemporary

LAURA NEVER MEANT TO LIE. BUT OLD HABITS DIE HARD. When Annie Adams heads to London to visit her mother, Laura, the last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Least of all for it to be...

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

Register Now