Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

The genre "Genre." was not recognised, please select one from the drop-down menu.

Filter:

Chopsticks

Chopsticks
  • Author(s): John Berkeley
  • Location(s): Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Children

On a restaurant on a boat, in faraway Hong Kong, lives a little mouse. This enchanting story tells of his adventures when, one New Year’s night, he magics a carved wooden dragon into life and together they fly through...

Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
  • Author(s): Peter Hessler
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

In his hire car from Beijing, on the understanding he will not leave the city, he gets as far as Mongolia. This is the book of his observations, his understanding of the political system and what he observes and...

Daisy Chain

Daisy Chain
  • Author(s): Maggie Ritchie
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer. The two women’s eventful lives...

Death In Shanghai

Death In Shanghai
  • Author(s): M J Lee
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Shanghai, 1928. The body of a blonde is washed up on the Beach of Dead Babies, in the heart of the smog-filled city. Seemingly a suicide, a closer inspection reveals a darker motive: the corpse has been weighed down, it’s...

Five Star Billionaire

Five Star Billionaire
  • Author(s): Tash Aw
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In this stunning new novel, the award-winning Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed...

Foreign Babes in Beijing

Foreign Babes in Beijing
  • Author(s): Rachel DeWoskin
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

Hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons, Rachel DeWoskin went to work for an American PR firm in China. Before she knew it, she was not just exploring, but making Chinese culture, as the sexy and...

Fragrant Harbour

Fragrant Harbour
  • Author(s): John Lanchester
  • Location(s): Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

In Fragrant Harbour much of the story is told in the words of Tom Stewart, a young Englishman who sails to Hong Kong in the 1930s and ends up spending the rest of his long life there. The voice...

Fragrant Heart

Fragrant Heart
  • Author(s): Miranda Emmerson
  • Location(s): China, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

We buy food we can point to. We stalk the streets until rush hour and wait for the little hatches to open in the sides of restaurants. From the steamy openings, cooks in overalls sell jiaozi (dumplings) and bowls...

Gweilo

Gweilo
  • Author(s): Martin Booth
  • Location(s): Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 1900s

An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control and blessed with bright blond hair that signified good...

Home is a Roof Over a Pig

Home is a Roof Over a Pig
  • Author(s): Aminta Arrington
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The story of one family’s culture shock, as they settle to a new life in China. If you are relocating, or want greater understanding, or retrospectively want to capture time you have spent there, then this is definitely a...

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

Register Now