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Peter Lovesey
Stagestruck
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Clare Balding
My Animals and Other Family
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Lulu Taylor
The Winter Folly
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Lorna Goodison
Redemption Ground
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Deborah Crombie
Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3)
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Saroo Brierley
Lion
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Raynor Winn
The Salt Path
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Władysław Szpilman
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
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Greg Mortenson
Three Cups Of Tea
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Irène Némirovsky
Suite Française
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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Featured library books

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The Knight

Gene Wolfe

THE WIZARD KNIGHT springs from the myths, legends and literature of times...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Whose Body?

Dorothy l Sayers

Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, telephones to say that...

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From: Dunstable, GB

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Nadia Knows Best

Jill Mansell

Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Blood Rush

Helen Black

The UK is gripped by the threat of gang violence - the media is building on...

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From: Bourne, GB

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A Dance of Ghosts (P...

Kevin Brooks

PI John Craine is struggling to cope with the weight of his past. Sixteen...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Midnight's Chil...

Salman Rushdie

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's...

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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 Friday Night Kni...

Kate Jacobs

Casting on ... It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their...

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From: Ludlow, GB

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Working Wonders

Jenny Colgan

Laughs, love, office life.And a little touch of magic …From the bestselling...

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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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She's Come Undo...

Wally Lamb

Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached...

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From: Broxbourne, GB

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How Hard Can It Be?

Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson had a dream... A world where the nonsensical made sense,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Blue Zone

Andrew Gross

They were the perfect family. And he was the perfect family man. One day...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Fault Line

Robert Goddard

It could be your average suicide. A man found dead in his car, engine...

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From: Bourne, GB

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A Life Less Ordinary

John Hodge

A Life Less Ordinary tells the story of a hapless young man who is fired...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Featured authors

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Kate Jacobs

Kate Jacobs is the New York Times-bestselling author of Comfort Food, Knit Two, and The Friday Night Knitting Club, which has over 1 million copies in print.Kate grew up near Vancouver, British...

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) exerted a profound, enduring influence on American thought and letters. His famous experiment in living close to nature, and his equally famous night in jail to protest...

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Paul Auster

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Report from the Interior, Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been awarded...

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Featured book drops

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Cafe Cream

United Kingdom - Crown Walk

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We offer a deliciously tempting menu of hot drinks, cold drinks, snacks and ice cream, all within the Bo-Jangles salon! Treat yourself to coffee, high quality ice cream, paninis,...

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Urban Coffee

United Kingdom - Birmingham

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You can find us in the middle of Harborne High St, on the corner of York St in the new ‘School Yard’ development. Serving a range of cakes, homemade sandwiches and salads and of...

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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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Sangsters Book Store Harbour Street

Jamaica - Kingston

Book Shop

In 1968 Sangster's Book Stores finally settled down at 97 Harbour Street after acquisition of own premises. The store had over 5,400 square feet and stocked a wide range of...

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Elizabeth's Second Hand Books Perth

Australia - Perth

Book Shop

Elizabeth's Bookshops are one of Australia's largest second-hand bookshop operations, with 6 stores on both sides of the Australian continent. Established in 1973,...

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Alexander Book Co

United States - San Francisco

Book Shop

Open Monday-Friday 9AM-6PM
Saturdays 10AM-5PM

Alexander Book Co. a locally owned, independent bookstore serving downtown San Francisco announced on Earth Day, April 22, 2005 that...

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Featured libraries

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Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

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The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

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OPENING TIMES:
9:30 am – 17.45 Monday - Saturday
Closed on Sundays

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Blackheath Library

United Kingdom - High Street

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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

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NoViolet Bulawayo wins the Best of Caine award

The Zimbabwean writer – who has been twice nominated for the Booker – won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011, w...

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Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88

Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thou...

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‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published

A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a...

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New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic

Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish Conti...

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Slow Horses author Mick Herron says he knows how Jackson Lamb dies

The writer knows ‘how, why, when and where’ Gary Oldman’s cantankerous intelligence officer meets his end – a fate he fi...

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Unpublished Raymond Chandler short story to appear in literary magazine

Nightmare will appear in the Strand magazine and portray an ‘incredibly sentimental’ side of the 20th century writer Con...

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‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist

No debut novels are among the six finalists, with established authors including Ben Markovits and previously shortlisted...

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Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery

Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an arc...

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Young Finns snub their mother tongue by reading in English

Publishers fear for the future of translated literature as sales of foreign language books rise Continue reading.........

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