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The Saffron Kitchen

Yasmin Crowther

On an autumn day in London, the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam...

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From: Ludlow, GB

Girl With a Pearl Ea...

Tracy Chevalier

A brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Wild Swans: Three Da...

Jung Chang

Forfatteren, der voksede op som medlem af den priviligerede elite i Maos...

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From: Ludlow, GB

Recipe for Scandal

Debby Holt

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

Call The Midwife: A ...

Jennifer Worth

A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of...

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From: Maidenhead, 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

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

Claudine Married

Colette

Claudine Married: Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Tiger's Wif...

Tea Obreht

In April of 1941, the German bombs started falling over the city and did...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Riddle of the Sa...

Erskine Childers

One of the first and still one of the finest spy stories ever written,...

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From: Broxbourne, 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

Whose Body?

Dorothy l Sayers

Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, telephones to say that...

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From: Dunstable, GB

The Storyteller

Mario Vargas Llosa

At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Danish Girl

David Ebershoff

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and directed by...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Mother's Gift

Maggie Hope

Taken in by her grandparents to ease the pressure on her poverty-stricken...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist, is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and the author of xkcd: volume 0. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him; asteroid 4942...

Louise Douglas

I've always loved reading and writing and all I ever wanted to be was an author. I've had four books published now, the fifth is written and is due to be published in August 2013 and...

J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, was an English writer, poet,WWI veteran (British Army), philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works
The Hobbit
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Featured book drops

The Pheasant Inn

United Kingdom - Bedfordshire

Book Drop

The Pheasant Inn Dunstable is located on the outskirts of town, just at the foot of the Dunstable Downs. We are a traditional English pub which also offers great value B&B and...

Jinney Ring Craft Centre

United Kingdom - Bromsgrove

Book Drop

The Jinney Ring Craft Centre is located in Hanbury, a picturesque village situated between Droitwich Spa and Bromsgrove. We are only 5 miles from Redditch; 9 miles from Worcester;...

Snowshill Arms

United Kingdom - Snowshill, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7JU

Book Drop

Close to the historic Snowshill Manor, which is open to the public, The Snowshill Arms lies in this very pretty village. This is a family-friendly, locals pub which also welcomes...

Featured book shops

Cowboy Bookworm

United States - Fort Worth

Book Shop

Cowboy Bookworm grew from Billy Huckaby's passion for books and rodeo. Good books about rodeo were hard to find and most were out of print. Huckaby launched Wild Horse Press...

Pages of Hackney

United Kingdom - London

Book Shop

We stock an eclectic selection of contemporary and classic fiction, children’s books, politics, art, cookery and much more.

The Book Barge

United Kingdom - Burton-On-Trent

Book Shop

The Book Barge opened in June 2009 as an independent bookshop operating from a 60? cruiser stern narrowboat.

Featured libraries

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

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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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Jarvis Cocker and Mary Beard announced as Booker prize judges

The historian is set to lead a ‘stellar’ 2026 panel featuring the Pulp frontman and other acclaimed writers, as the sear...

Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson to return for latest Hunger Games instalment

Currently in production the second prequel in the series, Sunrise on the Reaping, will likely feature the married couple...

Confessions of a Shopaholic novelist Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55

The ‘queen of romantic comedy’ has died 18 months after announcing her brain cancer diagnosis Continue reading.........

Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature

The British-Turkish writer was elected after a vote among the society’s fellows, with outgoing president Bernardine Evar...

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale has become ‘more and more plausible’

Canadian author discusses US under Donald Trump and says setting of dystopian novel has ‘become much closer’ Continue r...

From the Gruffalo to Dog Man: how to put children’s classics on the stage

With Dog Man making his London theatre debut next summer, theatre makers explain how to make a successful jump from page...

‘He’s the new Daniel Day-Lewis’: Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

Robbie addresses backlash to casting Elordi as a character described by Brontë as ‘dark-skinned’, while Fennell praises ...

Digested week: Minor quake hits book lauding bits of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s chest | Emma Brockes

Defenders rally to Olivia Nuzzi amid book mockery, while rakish David Dimbleby channels his inner Dickens Continue readi...

Sydney author’s erotica novel references ‘sexual stuff’ with a child, police officer tells court

A Christian charity executive who wrote Daddy’s Little Toy says her book refers to infant role play by adults rather tha...