Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Mali, Paris, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Japanese soprano sets sail for arid, haunted Corsica where she seeks her lost voice. A nude woman at the window of a Hong Kong hotel watches her lover dine in an adjacent building, but is her desire faltering?...

The Cuckoo’s Calling

The Cuckoo’s Calling
  • Author(s): Robert Galbraith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case....

The Cure

The Cure
  • Author(s): Eve Smith
  • Location(s): Oxford, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction
  • Era(s): Future

Living forever can be lethal… Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine...

The Dacre Dilemma

The Dacre Dilemma
  • Author(s): Rebecca Tope
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Simmy Brown is four months pregnant, working partly from home, partly from her Windermere florist shop and very much feeling her age when her husband, Christopher, asks her to deliver flowers to Eleanor Padgett. As an expert in antique...

The Death of Us

The Death of Us
  • Author(s): Abigail Dean
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

t’s the story everyone wants to hear. That spring night in South London, when Isabel and Edward’s lives were torn apart. The night Isabel learned that the worst things wait, just outside the door. The night Edward learned that...

The Dictionary of Lost Words

The Dictionary of Lost Words
  • Author(s): Pip Williams
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

In 1901, the word ‘bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford...

The Dog Walker

The Dog Walker
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): London, Kew
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1987 and 2016

A haunted house, a broken family and a body that has never been found. Stella and Jack must reawaken the secrets of the past in order to solve the mysteries of the present. January, 1987. In the depths of...

The Ebb (The Lady of the Pier)

The Ebb (The Lady of the Pier)
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Brighton, Corfu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1980s

When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her… CORFU, 1987 On a long holiday with her grandparents, Sofia Aspioti meets Danny Markson, a charming flirt who makes her laugh. Although she tries to keep him...

The Eights

The Eights
  • Author(s): Joanna Miller
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920/21

They knew they were changing history. They didn’t know they would change each other. Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education...

The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): London
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another and love of God. The affair in...

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

Register Now