Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Message to Love

Message to Love
  • Author(s): Liz Arnold
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Audra Wakely’s father has been seized by Spanish authorities and imprisoned for sympathizing with Cuban rebels. Raising the money to bribe officials, if necessary, she sets off for Cuba to rescue her father. She doesn’t bargain on the interference...

Midnight in Havana

Midnight in Havana
  • Author(s): Peggy Blair
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn’t yet know that it’s dead in the water – much like the little Cuban boy last seen...

Mockingbird

Mockingbird
  • Author(s): Julie Trimingham
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cuba. Music. Love. Theft. An out-of-work actress travels to Havana in search of purpose. Her entanglements there are filled with mixed motivations, selfishness and altruism, love and peril, faith and disaster. Mockingbird charts the hurricane-fraught course of Mia’s journey...

My Lost Cuba

My Lost Cuba
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th century

A moving portrait of Cuba from the 1950s which is actually fiction – could almost be memoir!

The Distant Marvels

The Distant Marvels
  • Author(s): Chantel Acevedo
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money – she was a favourite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lectora – and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit...

Three Trapped Tigers

Three Trapped Tigers
  • Author(s): Guillermo Cabrero Infante
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This novel is a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses. Centring on the recollections of a man separated from both is country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates an enchanting vision of life and the many colourful characters found...

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

This is the story of Harry Morgan, sometime fisherman, forced to turn his hand to other means of earning money. The end justifies the means, as he turns to smuggling. A tale evocatively rich in characters

One Kiss in Havana

One Kiss in Havana
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Dublin, Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Emma, Louise and Sophie are sisters. Talented, artistic and creative, they have a lot in common especially when it comes to men. When Emma receives two tickets to Cuba in the post from her late husband she is more...

Havana Noir

Havana Noir
  • Author(s): Achy Obejas
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

To most outsiders, Havana is a tropical wreckage of sin, sex and noise, a parallel world familiar but exotic – and embargoed enough to serve as a release valve for whatever pulse has been repressed or denied. Features brand...

Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes

Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
  • Author(s): William Kennedy
  • Location(s): Albany, Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins William Kennedy’s latest...

Refine Location

Locations in Cuba (Republic of)

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

Register Now