Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Orphans of War

Orphans of War
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and late 20th century

The ones you leave behind are the ones that stay with you forever… When Madeleine Belfield loses her family and her home in the Blitz, she is sent to love with relatives in the relative safety of the Yorkshire...

Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 19th Century

This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent–a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms–could a...

Other People’s Houses

Other People’s Houses
  • Author(s): Clare Mackintosh
  • Location(s): Cheshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Even on the most desirable street, there’s a dark side . . . The Hill is the kind of place everyone wants to live: luxurious, exclusive and safe. But now someone is breaking and entering these Cheshire homes one...

Other Women

Other Women
  • Author(s): Emma Flint
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1923 and a country is in mourning. Thousands of husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts were lost in Europe, millions more returned home wounded and forever changed. Beatrice Cade is an orphan, unmarried and childless. London is full...

Our Castle by the Sea

Our Castle by the Sea
  • Author(s): Lucy Strange
  • Location(s): Dover
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): World War 2

England is at war. Growing up in a lighthouse, Pet’s world has been one of storms, secret tunnels and stories about sea monsters. But now the clifftops are a terrifying battleground, and her family is torn apart. This is...

Our Hideous Progeny

Our Hideous Progeny
  • Author(s): C E McGill
  • Location(s): London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn’t know why or how… The 1850s is a time of discovery and London is ablaze with the...

Our Holiday

Our Holiday
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Studland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pine Ridge is fictitious but partially based on Studland in Dorset. THERE’S TROUBLE IN PARADISE Charlotte and Perry have owned their clifftop holiday home in Pine Ridge for years. They’ve worked hard for it – why shouldn’t they enjoy...

Our House

Our House
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought in Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it. When Fiona Lawson comes...

Our Spoons came from Woolworths

Our Spoons came from Woolworths
  • Author(s): Barbara Comyns
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

This book is set in London in the Thirties, Sophia is a young woman married to an artist, Charles. Poverty and motherhood all feature and the book is humorous, touching and beautifully written – in an almost childlike way...

Ours are the Streets

Ours are the Streets
  • Author(s): Sunjeev Sahota
  • Location(s): Lahore, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization. When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family’s land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life...

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

Register Now