Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Escape to the Art Cafe

Escape to the Art Cafe
  • Author(s): Sue McDonagh
  • Location(s): Gower Peninsula
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Heartbreak and cake at the Art Café … It was meant to be the perfect romantic holiday. But then Flora Bexton’s boyfriend does the unthinkable, and she responds in the only logical way: she steals his motorbike and escapes...

Fat Dogs and Welsh Estates

Fat Dogs and Welsh Estates
  • Author(s): Beth Haslam
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s - 80s

Imagine a land protected by craggy mountains, lapped by whispering seas, and guarded by mighty fortresses with bloody histories. This is North Wales, home to the legendary red dragon, and Beth Haslam’s beloved birthplace. Petulant ponies, neurotic sheepdogs and...

Finding Summer Happiness

Finding Summer Happiness
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You won’t find happiness without breaking a few eggs … Miriam Ryan was the MD of a successful events and catering company, but these days even the thought of chopping an onion sends her stress levels sky rocketing. A...

Free to Be Tegan

Free to Be Tegan
  • Author(s): Mary Grand
  • Location(s): The Cambrian Mountains
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Tegan, aged twenty seven, is cast out of the cult, rejected by her family and from the only life she has known. She is vulnerable and naïve but she also has courage and the will to survive. She travels...

Frozen Minds

Frozen Minds
  • Author(s): Cheryl Rees-Price
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Detective Meadows investigates a bizarre death in a small Welsh town When the manager of a residential home for adults with learning difficulties is found dead in the freezer, the police investigation must tread carefully. Many of the residents...

Gaslight

Gaslight
  • Author(s): Eloise Williams
  • Location(s): Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

1899. All Nansi knows is that her mother disappeared on the day she was fished out of Cardiff docks. She can’t remember anything else. Now, with no other family to turn to, she works for Sid at the Empire...

Ghostbird

Ghostbird
  • Author(s): Carol Lovekin
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Someone needs to be forgiven. Someone needs to forgive. Nothing hurts like not knowing who you are. Nobody will tell Cadi anything about her father and her sister. Her mother Violet believes she can only cope with the past...

Glass Houses

Glass Houses
  • Author(s): Francesca Reece
  • Location(s): North Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Somewhere, in a box in Margot Yates’ attic there’s a video of Gethin by the lake at Ty Gwydr. He’s young – nineteen, maybe twenty. It’s late spring and dusk, and a low sun leaks white light into the...

Goes Without Saying

Goes Without Saying
  • Author(s): Luisa A Jones
  • Location(s): South Wales, Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

“Most people run away from home when they’re in their rebellious teenage phase. But not you, Tom. You waited until you were a forty-year old father to do it.” Tom Field promised his wife Megan he’d never leave her....

GONE TO THE DOGS

GONE TO THE DOGS
  • Author(s): Nicola Clifford
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Trouble visits a small Welsh town as rivalries reach fever pitch. Sleuthing reporter Stacey Logan can’t help bumping into her boyfriend DCI Ben James in her professional life from time to time. But in her latest venture she ends...

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

Register Now