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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

How Stella Got Her G...

Terry McMillan

Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

As Darkness Falls

Bronwyn Parry

An abducted child. A ruthless killer. A race against time. Haunted by her...

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From: Maidenhead, 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 Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds...

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From: Birmingham, GB

All He Ever Wanted

Anita Shreve

A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Long Way Home

Audrey Howard

Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor - even by the standards of...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Anderby Wold

Winifred Holtby

Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic...

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From: Bourne, 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

The Fifth Woman: Kur...

Henning Mankell

Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Longbourn

Jo Baker

'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,'...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Chocolat

Joanne Harris

When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Grain of Wheat

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Snow Falling on Ceda...

David Guterson

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Behaviour Of Mot...

Poppy Adams

From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

Featured authors

Margaret Leroy

I grew up in the New Forest. As a child I wrote elaborate fantasy stories that I never showed to anyone. But around age 12 I stopped writing, and didn't start again till my mid-twenties.(from the...

Tracy Chevalier

Born:19 October 1962 in Washington, DC. Youngest of 3 children. Father was a photographer for The Washington Post.Childhood:Nerdy. Spent a lot of time lying on my bed reading. Favorite authors back...

S.J. Watson

S J Watson was born in the Midlands, lives in London and worked in the NHS for a number of years.In 2009 Watson was accepted into the first Faber Academy 'Writing a Novel' Course, a...

Featured book drops

Akamba Heritage & Garden Centre

United Kingdom - Solihull

Book Drop

At Akamba we offer all services ranging from garden design, event hire, plant hire, or a simple chat on the telephone to answer a query. We are also Solihull’s Premier African...

Bisley House

United Kingdom - Stroud

Book Drop

We’re a newly renovated friendly pub restaurant in Middle Street, Stroud. We serve fine wines, real ales, fantastic food and speciality tea and coffee.

Whistler's Cafe Bar & Restaurant

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

We offer you a warm welcome to Whistlers Cafe Bar & Restaurant. The sort of welcome you’ll receive when you visit our restaurant in Chipping Norton. You see, the Whistlers...

Featured book shops

Matopo Book Centre

Zimbabwe - Bulawayo

Book Shop

For all scholastic stationery, educational books, religious materials, groceries and other related items.

Hill of Content Bookshop

Australia - Melbourne

Book Shop

Hill of Content is a rare treat. The narrow shopfront of the multi-storey bookstore hides a myriad of promise within. The friendly staff have arranged hundreds of titles across...

Bank Street Book Nook

United States - New Milford

Book Shop

The Bank Street Book Nook is an independently owned bookstore in New Milford, CT. We carry a vast array of genres - history, fiction, reference, classics, non-fiction, travel, and...

Featured libraries

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.

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says she is terrified her sons will ‘join manosphere’

Nigerian-American author tells Cheltenham literature festival audience having boys made her ‘worry more’ Continue readin...

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...

‘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...