Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

The Disappeared

The Disappeared
  • Author(s): Kim Echlin
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/Modern

After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia’s killing fields. Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she...

The Discourtesy of Death

The Discourtesy of Death
  • Author(s): William Brodrick
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Crime

An anonymous letter sent to Larkwood’s Prior accuses Peter Henderson, an academic celebrity renowned for daring ideas, of a grotesque murder: the calculated killing of Jenny, his disabled partner, believed by everyone to have died peacefully two years previously...

The Discovery of India

The Discovery of India
  • Author(s): Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

This book is moving towards being a classic work in the founding of the modern Republic of India, as seen through the eyes of its first Chief executive, Jawaharlal Nehru.

The Disillusioned

The Disillusioned
  • Author(s): D J Williams
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A mother’s suicide threatens to destroy a family legacy. Her sons, Sam and Daniel, are forced to leave their comfortable worlds behind and search for a woman they believe can unlock the secrets that have remained hidden. They are...

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...

The Divorcées

The Divorcées
  • Author(s): Rowan Beaird
  • Location(s): Reno
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce – except in...

The Djinn’s Apple

The Djinn’s Apple
  • Author(s): Djamila Morani
  • Location(s): Baghdad
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 8th century

Historical fiction meets crime fiction in The Djinn’s Apple, an award-winning YA murder mystery set in the Abbasid period―the golden age of Baghdad. A ruthless murder. A magical herb. A mysterious manuscript. When Nardeen’s home is stormed by angry...

The Doctor of Thessaly #3

The Doctor of Thessaly #3
  • Author(s): Anne Zouroudi
  • Location(s): Thessaly
  • Genre(s): Mystery

A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach, a local doctor is attacked in an isolated churchyard – trouble has come at a bad time to Morfi, just as the backwater village is making headlines with a visit from...

The Dog of the South

The Dog of the South
  • Author(s): Charles Portis
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray’s cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they’ve gone. He takes off...

The Dogs at the Perimeter

The Dogs at the Perimeter
  • Author(s): Madeleine Thien
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Looking back at the 1980s

One starless night Janie’s childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up...

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

Register Now