Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

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

Remarkable Creatures

Remarkable Creatures
  • Author(s): Tracy Chevalier
  • Location(s): Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye… From the moment she’s struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness....

Repacking for Greece

Repacking for Greece
  • Author(s): Sally Jane Smith
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Recent

(Packing for Greece travel series) When a long-forgotten, apartheid-era arrest record derails Sally’s plans for a Canadian family holiday, she packs her mum’s 1978 travel diary and sets out solo for Greece instead. As she journeys to the landmarks...

Return to Hiroshima

Return to Hiroshima
  • Author(s): Bob Van Laerhoven
  • Location(s): Hiroshima
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

1995, Japan struggles with a severe economic crisis. Fate brings a number of people together in Hiroshima in a confrontation with dramatic consequences. Xavier Douterloigne, the son of a Belgian diplomat, returns to the city, where he spent his...

Reykjavík

Reykjavík
  • Author(s): Katrín Jakobsdottír, Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Reykjavik, Videy Island
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1986 looking back to 1956

What happened to Lara? Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lára spends the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. The mystery becomes...

Ride the Wings of Morning

Ride the Wings of Morning
  • Author(s): Sophie Neville
  • Location(s): Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1992-1999

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work as a safari guide on a game reserve in Southern Africa? Sophie arrived in South Africa to spend help a friend run horseback safaris on a game reserve...

Ripples on the Pond

Ripples on the Pond
  • Author(s): Sebnem E Sanders
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Mainly contemporary

A man infatuated with ivy. A woman pining for lost love. In a Turkish square, ancient buildings lament a devastating explosion. An unlikely friendship struck up with a homeless person. A journey to a magical place that once visited...

River of Ink

River of Ink
  • Author(s): Paul M M Cooper
  • Location(s): Polonnaruwa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 13th Century

All Asanka knows is poetry. From his humble village beginnings in the great island kingdom of Lanka, he has risen to the prestigious position of court poet and now delights in his life of ease: composing romantic verses for...

River Sing Me Home

River Sing Me Home
  • Author(s): Eleanor Shearer
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1830s

We whisper the names of the ones we love like the words of a song. That was the taste of freedom to us, those names on our lips. Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. These are...

Road To True North

Road To True North
  • Author(s): Sarah Holding
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): Young Adult, Coming of Age

On the brink of adulthood, Olly’s life has fallen apart after a disastrous summer of failed exams and first love, resulting in a police warning and a mental health diagnosis. Olly’s father, Sean, decides to take him on a...

Robert Venturi’s Rome

Robert Venturi’s Rome
  • Author(s): Stephen Harby, Frederich Fisher
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

A guidebook to the city of Rome seen through the eyes of Robert Venturi, re-interpreted by two subsequent Rome Prize fellows A vital text for young architects, focusing on the interrelationship between architecture, art and landscape

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

Register Now