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Featured library books

The Little Prince

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Out of the Mists

John Barrington

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

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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 Friday Night Kni...

Kate Jacobs

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

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From: Ludlow, GB

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

The Infinite Plan

Isabel Allende

Charles Reeves is a preacher, mystic and formulator of the Infinite Plan -...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

Crazy Horse and Cust...

Stephen E. Ambrose

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States...

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From: Birmingham, 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

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

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

Lost Angel

Mandasue Heller

It's a world where crime is almost respectable - until passion ignites...

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From: Ludlow, GB

Journey to the Centr...

Jules Verne

Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Return

Victoria Hislop

THE RETURN debuted at number two in the Sunday Times hardback fiction...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

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

Season of Migration ...

Tayeb Salih

Paperback. Pub date: 2003 Pages: 169 Publisher: Penguin Books' Season...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

James Robertson

James Robertson (born 1958) is a Scottish writer who grew up in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire. He is the author of several short story and poetry collections, and has published four novels: The...

Charles Dickens

A prolific 19th Century author of short stories, plays, novellas, novels, fiction and non-fiction; during his lifetime Dickens became known the world over for his remarkable characters, his mastery of...

Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. She read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has taught English at the Sorbonne. More recently she has written for the Times of India in Bombay and...

Featured book drops

The Raven

United Kingdom - Hope Street

Book Drop

Here at The Raven we smoke our own ribs, chicken and meats low and slow for up to 12 hours over seasoned woodchips, which means that, along with some amazing burgers, dogs and...

The Fox

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

The Fox sits happily and handily in the market place of Chipping Norton, one of the gateway's to the beautiful Cotswolds. They've been serving fine ale and food since the...

The Generous Briton

United Kingdom - Lincoln

Book Drop

Steeped in history and set on the High Street in the centre of the pretty little village of Brant Broughton The Generous Briton has been a public house for over 200 years. The...

Featured book shops

Henry Bohn Books

United Kingdom - Liverpool

Book Shop

We buy books on all subjects from single items to the largest library.

Vojens Boghandel

Denmark - Vojens

Book Shop

Bookbug

United States - Kalamazoo

Book Shop

This season and year-round Bookbug is pleased to offer full WISH LIST services. Please come in to fill out your wish list in the store and/or call/e-mail us with your desired books...

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.

Manchester Central Library

United Kingdom - Manchester

Library

Central Library opening times:
Monday: 9am-8pm
Tuesday: 9am-8pm
Wednesday: 9am-8pm
Thursday: 9am-8pm
Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturday: 9am-5pm
Sunday: closed

The beautifully refurbished...

Featured book news

New Mr Poirot and Little Miss Marple books to be published

Agatha Christie’s popular detectives feature in new Mr Men and Little Miss stories – Mischief on the Nile and Muddle at ...

Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon ‘likely written’ by AI

Originality.ai scans 558 titles in herbal remedies section between January and September Continue reading.........

Iris Murdoch’s poems on bisexuality to be published – read one exclusively here

Drawn mostly from notebooks discovered in the attic of the late novelist and philosopher’s Oxford home, a new collection...

Prince Andrew tried to hire ‘internet trolls’ to hassle Virginia Giuffre, book claims

Andrew hid behind Balmoral’s ‘guarded gates’ to escape court papers, accuser says in memoir Nobody’s Girl Continue readi...

‘Every kind of creative discipline is in danger’: Lincoln Lawyer author on the dangers of AI

Michael Connelly says tech is moving so fast that he feared his new novel would seem ‘archaic’ before it was published C...

BBC reporters cannot wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts in newsroom, says Tim Davie

Director general says it is inappropriate for a journalist who may be covering that issue ‘to be campaigning in that way...

The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools

From 007 to Elsa, Vermillio claims it can trace percentage of AI-generated image drawn from pre-existing material Contin...

Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35

The Korean author’s hit self-help memoir, which follows her conversations with her psychiatrist, sold more than a millio...

Blue plaque to be unveiled at home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator

Ceremony marks 80 years since release of the Rev W Awdry’s first book and coincides with railway bicentenary Continue re...