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Featured library books

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

A Life Less Ordinary

John Hodge

A Life Less Ordinary tells the story of a hapless young man who is fired...

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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

Never Go Back

Lee Child

‘It's said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds...

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From: Maidenhead, 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

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

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

Conversation in the ...

Mario Vargas Llosa

Under the rule of the unseen military dictator General Ordia, suspicion,...

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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

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

Recipe for Scandal

Debby Holt

Living with her partner, Tony, his parents and their precocious teenage...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Pamela

Samuel Richardson

Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone in the world, is pursued by her dead...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

Lost Angel

Mandasue Heller

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

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From: Ludlow, 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

Featured authors

Black Elk

Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk) (December 1863 – August 19, 1950) was a famous wičháša wakȟáŋ (medicine man and holy man) of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He was Heyoka and a second cousin of Crazy Horse.Since...

Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster was educated at the Carlisle and County High School for Girls. From here she won an Open Scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford where in 1960 she was awarded an honours degree in...

Charlotte Mendelson

CHARLOTTE MENDELSON was born in London in 1972 and grew up in Oxford. She has written and reviewed for the Guardian, the TLS, the Independent on Sunday, the Observer and elsewhere. She lives in...

Featured book drops

Urban Coffee

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Book Drop

You can find us in the middle of Harborne High St, on the corner of York St in the new ‘School Yard’ development. Serving a range of cakes, homemade sandwiches and salads and of...

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,...

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

Maggs Bros. Ltd.

United Kingdom - London

Book Shop

Maggs Bros. Ltd. is one of the world's largest antiquarian booksellers, and has been dealing in rare books and manuscripts since 1853.

Collected Stories Bookstore

United States - Milford

Book Shop

Collected Stories Bookstore features a full selection of rare, out of print and used books. We purchase books that are unique and in good to fine condition. We do not purchase...

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Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo

Book Shop

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

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...

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

Featured book news

Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87

Working first with his wife Janet, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more ...

Kamala Harris to release book on presidential run: ‘I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting’

The former vice-president is set to release 107 Days with Simon & Schuster, using ‘candor’ to relive historic run Co...

‘I’ve got my own theory’: Val McDermid play investigates death of Christopher Marlowe

Crime writer says her conclusion on the circumstances of the 16th-century playwright’s killing ‘will surprise people’ Co...

Helen Garner praises ‘serious and sensitive’ Dua Lipa after musician adds Australian author to her book club

Music superstar announces 2014 courtroom drama This House of Grief as first Australian pick for global monthly book club...

Sarah Jessica Parker in possible conflict of interest over Booker longlisted author

Actor and book prize judge’s production company in process of developing novel by Claire Adam Continue reading.........

Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw

Chair of judges Roddy Doyle says the 13 ‘gripping’ titles in contention for the £50,000 award all ‘examine identity, ind...

NSW spending $1.5m on literary hub to rival Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre and boost Sydney writers’ festival

Funding will mean 75 Sydney writers’ festival events will take place over next 12 monthsFollow our Australia news live b...

‘A novel to be swept away by’: Lucy Steeds wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for The Artist

Judges praised the novel, set in 1920s Provence, for its ‘atmospheric, sensory prose’ and described Steeds as ‘an exciti...

Siang Lu wins Miles Franklin award for Ghost Cities, ‘a genuine landmark in Australian literature’

Author, who takes home $60,000, says finding out he won Australia’s most esteemed literary prize left him ‘in such shock...