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Featured library books

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

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

A Sensible Life

Mary Wesley

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Voyage For Madmen

Peter Nichols

The true story of the 1968 oceanic adventure of nine sailors who set off in...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Pretty Little Things

Jilliane Hoffman

A terrifying new standalone psycholgical thriller from the bestselling...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Murder at the Savoy ...

Maj Sjowall

The sixth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s...

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From: Dunstable, GB

Breaking Point

John Macken

There is a killer loose on the London Underground. He kills without...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Dead Won't ...

Anna Smith

Krimi. The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on the beach...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Danish Girl

David Ebershoff

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and directed by...

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From: Birmingham, GB

All That I Am

Anna Funder

One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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

The Meaning of Night

Michael Cox

A cold October night, 1854. In a dark passageway, an innocent man is...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Kaspar Prince of Cat...

Michael Morpurgo

A heart-warming, colour-illustrated novel about Kaspar the Savoy cat,...

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From: Dunstable, GB

A Father's Reve...

Kitty Neale

A mother must fight to protect all she holds dear… Thirteen years have...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Legacy

Katherine Webb

IN THE DEPTHS OF A HARSH WINTER, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF THEIR GRANDMOTHER,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Katherine Webb

I was born in Kent in 1977 and grew up in rural Hampshire before reading History at Durham University. History remains a passion, and I write character-led mystery dramas, often with historical...

Huigh Lofting

Hugh John Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle, one of the classics of children's literature

Brian Gallagher

Brian Gallagher is a full-time writer whose plays and short stories have been produced in Ireland, Britain and Canada. He has worked extensively in radio and television, writing many dramas and...

Featured book drops

The Old Mill Retreat Cafe

United Kingdom - Broxbourne

Book Drop

The Old Mill Retreat Cafe is located in beautiful surroundings and ideal for riverside dining, and is well blended into the scenic towpath/river. Inside is a cosy cafe with...

Caffe Nero Chipping Norton

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

Our story goes back around 20 years, to our founder Gerry Ford. Armed with a passion for coffee, he had a vision to create traditional Italian cafés across Europe; places that...

The Pheasant Inn

United Kingdom - Bedfordshire

Book Drop

The Pheasant Inn Dunstable is located on the outskirts of town, just at the foot of the Dunstable Downs. We are a traditional English pub which also offers great value B&B and...

Featured book shops

Cărtureşti Timişoara - Mercy

Romania - Timișoara

Book Shop

Cărtureşti is a concept store that functions as a library as well as a cultural agent, and is actively involved in the revitalization of artistic life in Romania.

Cărtureşti este...

Bonython Bookshop

United Kingdom - Kenwyn Street

Book Shop

Bonython Book Shop is small antiquarian/second hand bookshop in the cathedral city of Truro specialising in all areas of Cornish history, mining, archaeology, among others.

Children's Book World

United States - Los Angeles

Book Shop

CHILDREN'S BOOK WORLD has been open since 1986 and is a full-service children's bookshop in West Los Angeles, stocking over 80,000 titles for children, parents, teachers...

Featured libraries

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

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...

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

Featured book news

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road Continue readi...

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: first trailer for new Game of Thrones prequel

Latest Westeros-set show, based on novellas by George RR Martin, takes place 100 years before events of Game of Thrones ...

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Hungarian novelist celebrated for dystopian, melancholic novels that ‘reaffirm the power of art’ Continue reading.........

Nobel prize in literature 2025 as it happened: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here:László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature Co...

Mischa Barton to make UK stage debut in Double Indemnity

The OC star will take the role made famous by Barbara Stanwyck in James M Cain’s classic noir tale of murder and deceit,...

UK libraries urged to remove children’s books with URL hijacked by porn site

Puffin issues alert to schools and local authorities over books in popular Spy Dog series by Andrew Cope Continue readin...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books

A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main c...

Can Xue and László Krasznahorkai are joint favourites to win 2025 Nobel prize in literature

The Chinese and Hungarian writers are tied with odds of 10/1 – while Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie...

Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard to chair Women’s prize for fiction in 2026

Gillard reveals reading fiction is her most treasured pastime and looks forward to working with ‘a joyful panel of judge...