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Featured library books

The Reading Group

Elizabeth Noble

Five women meet for their first reading group, little realising this...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Collaborator

Margaret Leroy

There's a sudden scatter of birds in the sky. I flinch. Little things...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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

Quicksand AND Passin...

Nella Larsen

Quicksand, written in 1928, is the first novel to give an open voice to...

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From: Broxbourne, GB

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

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes...

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From: Bourne, GB

Paula

Isabel Allende

When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Soldier's W...

Margaret Leroy

1940, GUERNSEY. Vivienne de la Mare waits nervously for the bombs to...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Shopaholic Abroad

Sophie Kinsella

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is great. She has a job on morning TV, her bank...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Crimson Petal An...

Michel Faber

NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Gillian...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Jam and Jeopardy

Doris Davidson

89-year-old spinster, Janet Stouter, takes pleasure in raking up scandals,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Giving Up the Ghost

Hilary Mantel

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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From: Bourne, GB

The Garden of Burnin...

Corban Addison

In Zambia, American lawyer Zoe Fleming and policeman Joseph Kabuta have...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Farm

Richard Benson

When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

StoryAfrica

StoryAfrica was founded in April 2010 and exists to promote the very best of African literature to the rest of the world-especially The Americas, Europe and Asia. StoryAfrica will publish...

Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is a novelist living in Wales. He is the son of John Standish Fforde, the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England, whose signature used to appear on sterling banknotes, and is cousin...

Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is the author of five books,
The Shell Collector
,
About Grace
,
Memory Wall
,
Four Seasons in Rome
and
All the Light We Cannot See
. Doerr’s fiction has won four O....

Featured book drops

The Tea Set

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

The Tea Set in Chipping Norton and Broadway are two new tea rooms in the Cotswolds. The Tea Set offers afternoon tea, coffee and cake, lunches, pre-theatre dinners with bubbly and...

Cromarty Arms Inn

United Kingdom - Cromarty

Book Drop

The Cromarty Arms is a family run pub providing bed and breakfast accommodation and delicious home-made bar meals. We have a beer garden and are adjacent to three historical...

The Bluebell Inn

United Kingdom - Ashbourne

Book Drop

Whether you want to enjoy a pint in a friendly, relaxing atmosphere or you want a full, sit-down meal, come to The Bluebell Inn in Tissington. We offer a family friendly bar,...

Featured book shops

The Book Place

Barbados - Bridgetown

Book Shop

Book Seller

Blue Phoenix Books

United States - Alpena

Book Shop

Ledbury Books and Maps

United Kingdom - Ledbury

Book Shop

Ledbury Books and Maps sells books and maps together with a range of classical and easy listening CDs and DVDs and a good selection of greetings cards.

We carry a wide range of...

Featured libraries

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

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

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

See website for hours of opening.

Featured book news

Author of bestselling memoir The Salt Path accused of lying

Raynor Winn is claimed to have taken ‘around £64,000’ from a former employer and lied about being homeless – accusations...

Beyond the bonnets: Jane Austen’s working women finally get their place in the spotlight

Exhibition looks at housekeepers, maids and governesses who ‘enable the lives of the heroines and heroes’ Continue readi...

Michael Morpurgo to recite Vivaldi-inspired poetry at inaugural Cornwall festival

Author wants to take arts to ‘middle of wonderful nowhere’ in far south-west, often missed by people heading for coast C...

Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat

Paul Webb said he ensured books and material were pulled from children’s section of Kent libraries, but it emerges they ...

New book details how Obama slammed Biden’s re-election bid: ‘Your campaign is a mess’

Details include how White House staff thought ex-president ‘was a prick’ who disrespected and mistreated Biden Continue ...

‘Smoke and confusion’: exhibition points out Jane Austen’s true thoughts on Bath

Georgian city is not shy of milking its links with the author, but actually she was not happy during her time there Cont...

‘We need to reclaim these words’: Inside England’s first romance-only bookshop catering to record levels of popularity

Saucy Books in London has become the go-to destination for romance readers – but fans say misogyny is stopping the genre...

Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training

Writers alleged that company used nearly 200,000 pirated books to train its Megatron artificial intelligence Continue re...

‘Intense’ novel about robot abused by her boyfriend/owner wins Arthur C Clarke science fiction award

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer wins £2,025 for ‘compelling tale that, like all good stories about robots, is ultimately about...