Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
  • Author(s): Laila Lalami
  • Location(s): Morocco, Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who’s been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who’s fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in...

Jake Atlas and the Keys of the Apocalypse

Jake Atlas and the Keys of the Apocalypse
  • Author(s): Rob Lloyd Jones
  • Location(s): Rome, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

JAKE ATLAS: TOMB ROBBER, TREASURE HUNTER, TROUBLEMAKER This fourth riveting Jake Atlas adventure takes Jake and his family to Rome, where they uncover the secret history of a Roman legion sworn to protect four mysterious keys. The keys hold...

Let It Come Down

Let It Come Down
  • Author(s): Paul Bowles
  • Location(s): Tangier
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Let It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre...

Lies and Weddings

Lies and Weddings
  • Author(s): Kevin Chen
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, England, Los Angeles, Marrakech, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister’s...

Mission to Morocco

Mission to Morocco
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Casablanca, Kenitra
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1944

An OSS officer is dispatched on a secret mission to French Morocco to dismantle a Nazi network reporting on the U.S. Navy’s Africa Squadron.

Moroccan Noir

Moroccan Noir
  • Author(s): Jonathan Smolin
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): Various

Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state...

Morocco

Morocco
  • Author(s): Walter M Weiss, Stefan Tobler (Translator)
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

While much of the Middle East is now engulfed in conflict and repression, Morocco remains a curious anomaly: peaceful and open to the West, it has provided refuge for artists and writers for generations, and it remains an exotic...

My 1001 Nights: Tales and Adventures from Morocco

My 1001 Nights: Tales and Adventures from Morocco
  • Author(s): Alice Morrison
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

When Alice Morrison headed out to Morocco, it was to take on one of the most daunting challenges: to run in the famous Marathon des Sables. Little did she expect to end up living there. But as soon as...

Night Train to Marrakech

Night Train to Marrakech
  • Author(s): Dinah Jefferies
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Concluding the ‘Daughters of War’ trilogy (no.3) ‘The desert hides dark secrets…’ MARRAKECH 1966 Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met. It’s an epic journey that’ll take her to...

Palace in the Old Village

Palace in the Old Village
  • Author(s): Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From ‘Morocco’s greatest living author’ (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. Mohammed has spent the past 40 years working in France. As he...

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

Register Now