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Featured member book shelves

Paracom
Fiction
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Sarah Morgan
Christmas Ever After (Puffin Island trilogy, Book 3)
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Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
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Kami Garcia
Beautiful Darkness (Book 2): 2/4 (Beautiful Creatures)
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Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
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Mark Watson
The Knot
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Fiction
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Ian Caldwell
The Rule Of Four
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Nicolas Freeling
Gun Before Butter
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William Trevor
The Silence in the Garden
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Gardening
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Isabelle Palmer
The House Gardener
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Isabelle Palmer
House Plants
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Featured library books

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Lost Angel

Mandasue Heller

It's a world where crime is almost respectable - until passion ignites...

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From: Ludlow, GB

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Call The Midwife: A ...

Jennifer Worth

A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

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Gem Squash Tokoloshe

Rachel Zadok

Faith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Book Of Salt

Monique Truong

The Book of Salt serves up a wholly original take on Paris in the 1930s...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Infinite Plan

Isabel Allende

Charles Reeves is a preacher, mystic and formulator of the Infinite Plan -...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

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Inés of My Soul

Isabel Allende

The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

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The Violet Hour

Richard Montanari

He's waited twenty years. He'll wait no longer. A gripping...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Little Prince

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Girl Under the O...

Leah Fleming

Back in 1941 the Greek island of Crete is captured by the Germans and the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Story of My Life...

Helen Keller

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life...

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From: Ludlow, GB

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What Are You Like - ...

Anne Enright

When Maria turns twenty. she falls in love She is in the wrong town and...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When Nigeria is shaken by a political coup Kambilli's father, whose...

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From: Bourne, GB

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Never Go Back

Lee Child

‘It's said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

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Who Killed Palomino ...

Mario Vargas Llosa

This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Riddle of the Sa...

Erskine Childers

One of the first and still one of the finest spy stories ever written,...

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From: Broxbourne, GB

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Featured authors

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Thomas Keneally

Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of...

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Julian Symons

Julian Gustave Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history,...

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Meindert DeJong

Meindert De Jong(4 March 1906 – 16 July 1991) was an award-winning author of children's books. He was born in the village of Wierum, of the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands.De Jong...

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Featured book drops

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The Chateaux Impney Hotel

United Kingdom - Droitwich

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Located in the Worcestershire countryside, this unique venue offers a stylish setting for weddings and events, extensive conferencing and exhibition facilities, and the perfect...

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Snack Attack Cafe

United Kingdom - Scunthorpe

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Established in 2012, Snack Attack Café has two key values: serving quality food at a fair price. We are a family run café and pride ourselves on using locally sourced fresh...

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Pier House Bistro

United Kingdom - Boathouse

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Pier House Bistro is a special place to meet, greet and eat! We are situated in picturesque Beaumaris, with stunning views of the Menai Strait and the Snowdonia Mountain range. We...

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Featured book shops

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Boulevard Bookshop and Thai Cafe

United Kingdom - Hastings

Book Shop

Welcome to the only Bookshop and Thai Cafe in Great Britain or Europe!

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Watkins Books

United Kingdom - London

Book Shop

Established over 100 years ago, we are one of the world's oldest and leading independent bookshops specialising in esoterica.

Here at Watkins we have a wide choice of new...

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Hurlingham Books

United Kingdom - London

Book Shop

At our shop, we stock mainly copies of fiction, poetry and general interest books but it doesn’t end there! We have a huge warehouse which also in Fulham (10 minutes from the...

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Featured libraries

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Madeley Library

United Kingdom - Russell Road

Library

Monday ? 10am - 4pm
Tuesday ? 10am - 5pm
Wednesday ? 10am - 6pm
Thursday ? Closed
Friday ? 9.30am - 5pm
Saturday ? 9.30am - 4pm

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Manchester Central Library

United Kingdom - Manchester

Library

Central Library opening times:
Monday: 9am-8pm
Tuesday: 9am-8pm
Wednesday: 9am-8pm
Thursday: 9am-8pm
Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturday: 9am-5pm
Sunday: closed

The beautifully refurbished...

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Blackheath Library

United Kingdom - High Street

Library

OPENING TIMES:
Monday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Tuesday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Wednesday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Thursday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Friday: 9.30am - 7pm
Saturday: 10am - 4pm
Sunday: Closed

The...

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Wuthering Heights: bold new trailer for Emerald Fennell’s epic adaptation

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi lead the Saltburn writer-director’s Charli xcx-soundtracked take on Emily Brontë’s novel,...

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‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde

Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity,...

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Adele to make acting debut in star-studded Tom Ford movie

The singer will star alongside Adolescence breakout Owen Cooper, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Thandiwe Newton and ...

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Jilly Cooper died of head injury suffered in fall at home, inquest hears

Coroner reaches conclusion of accidental death and says author died as a result of a traumatic subdural haematoma Contin...

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David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh

The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British autho...

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Andrew Miller is bookies’ favourite to win 2025 Booker prize

The Land in Winter has shortest odds of victory, ahead of Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Continue readi...

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Love The Traitors and Only Murders in the Building? Visit The Mousetrap, says bold new director of West End perennial

Ola Ince, who has refreshed Agatha Christie’s record-breaking mystery, says ‘we all fancy ourselves as detectives’ Conti...

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Lee Tamahori, director of Once Were Warriors and James Bond movie Die Another Day, dies aged 75

New Zealand film-maker became a Hollywood fixture in the 90s and 00s, including making Pierce Brosnan’s last 007 movie, ...

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CD Rose awarded the 2025 Goldsmiths prize

The author has won the experimental literary fiction prize for his ‘dizzying, encyclopaedic’ fifth book, We Live Here No...

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