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Featured member book shelves

Ibexpower
Gardening
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Isabelle Palmer
The House Gardener
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Isabelle Palmer
House Plants
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 Sweetest Thing

Cathy Woodman

Jennie Copeland thought she knew the recipe for a happy life: marriage to...

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From: Birmingham, 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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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

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Village by the Sea

Anita Desai

An award-winning story about a family's survival in a small fishing...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Breakfast with the N...

Rumer Godden

For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

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Their Eyes Were Watc...

Zora Neale with an introductio...

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best known work by...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Out of the Mists

John Barrington

This collection of traditional stories gathered from all reaches of...

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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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South Riding (VMC Bo...

Winifred Holtby

When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of...

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From: Ludlow, GB

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Spitfire Girls

Carol Gould

Top-class pilots were crucial to the survival of Great Britain during the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Giving Up the Ghost

Hilary Mantel

Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Obsession

Debra Webb

The first novel in Debra Webb's internationally bestselling FACES OF...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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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

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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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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of...

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From: Broxbourne, GB

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Featured authors

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Lesley Pearse

Lesley Pearse is one of the UK's best-loved novelists with fans across the globe and sales of over 2 million copies of her books to date. A true storyteller and a master of gripping storylines...

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Julia Llewellyn

Writes stuff for newspapers and novels under cunning pseudonym Julia Llewellyn. Always picks Asterix, Stones, dogs over Tintin, Beatles, cats.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the...

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Featured book drops

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The Chateaux Impney Hotel

United Kingdom - Droitwich

Book Drop

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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IBEX Industrial Brushes

United Kingdom - Malt Mill Lane

Book Drop

Welcome to IBEX Industrial Brushes "Book Drop". We have a large array of books waiting to travel all over the world, sitting in our trade counter, eager to move on!

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Constance Wallace

United Kingdom - Barnt Green

Book Drop

Constance Wallace offers an incredible range of authentic vintage china hire, cutlery and other accessories that can be conveniently sourced for weddings, christenings, birthday,...

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Featured book shops

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Camilla's Bookshop

United Kingdom - Eastbourne

Book Shop

We are a very large secondhand & antiquarian bookshop located a five minutes' walk from Eastbourne Railway Station. Our specialities include armed services, transport,...

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Pritchard's Bookshop

United Kingdom - Liverpool

Book Shop

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Babushka Books

United Kingdom - Shanklin

Book Shop

Babushka Books: The Isle of Wight's most talked about bookstore!

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Featured libraries

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Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

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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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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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The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published

Exclusive: Fantasy about ‘a beautiful creature with wings’ has been compiled from drafts, storyboards and sketches Conti...

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‘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...

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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 ...

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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

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

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

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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,...

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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...

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‘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...

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