Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

A View of the Empire at Sunset

A View of the Empire at Sunset
  • Author(s): Caryl Phillips
  • Location(s): Dominica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

In the heart of London’s Bloomsbury, Gwendolen – not yet truly famous as the writer ‘Jean Rhys’ – is presented with the opportunity she has been waiting for. Her husband has received an unexpected inheritance; she can, at last,...

Island in the Sun

Island in the Sun
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): Dominica
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dominica. A beautiful remote island where the sun shines and the living is easy. And where Cass goes to photograph a rare stone carving as a favour to her father. With her is Ranulph, a deeply attractive, much-travelled journalist,...

Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea
  • Author(s): Jean Rhys
  • Location(s): Dominica, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1830s

A prequel to Jane Eyre, telling the story of the Creole heiress Antoinette, the “mad woman in the attic”. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn...

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

Register Now