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Featured library books

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

Journey to the Centr...

Jules Verne

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Killing Kindness: ...

Reginald Hill

When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out...

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From: Dunstable, GB

All That I Am

Anna Funder

One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Working Wonders

Jenny Colgan

Laughs, love, office life.And a little touch of magic …From the bestselling...

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From: Birmingham, 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

Kill Alex Cross

James Patterson

The President's children have been kidnapped. The water supply for...

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From: Bourne, GB

The Complete Mapp & ...

E.F. Benson

Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as...

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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

Breaking Point

John Macken

There is a killer loose on the London Underground. He kills without...

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From: Birmingham, GB

THE INTERPRETATION O...

JED RUBENFELD

'Manhattan, 1909. On the morning after Sigmund Freud arrives in New...

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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

The Reading Group

Elizabeth Noble

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

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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

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

E.M. Delafield

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author who is best-known for her largely autobiographical...

Alastair Sooke

Alastair Sooke is a journalist and broadcaster. Art critic of The Daily Telegraph and a columnist for BBC.com, he has written and presented many documentaries on television and radio for the BBC, and...

Karin Alvtegen

The Queen of Crime in Scandinavia.Missing was awarded the premier Scandinavian crime writing award the Glass Key in 2001 and was also nominated for the Poloni Award and Best Crime Novel 2000 in...

Featured book drops

IBEX Industrial Brushes

United Kingdom - Malt Mill Lane

Book Drop

Welcome to IBEX Industrial Brushes "Book Drop". We have a large array of books waiting to travel all over the world, sitting in our trade counter, eager to move on!

The Old Mill Coffee House & Bistro

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

Opening Hours Monday to Saturday - 8am to 5:30pm Sunday - 9am to 5pm Visa - MasterCard - Maestro - Switch Free WiFi available

Ownies Bar and Bistro

United Kingdom - Joymount

Book Drop

If you're looking for a traditional restaurant with a modern twist, look no further than Ownies Bar & Bistro. Whether it's a locally-sourced special or a quiet drink...

Featured book shops

The Idle Booksellers

United Kingdom - Bradford

Book Shop

We buy and sell second-hand, antiquarian, rare and out of print books on most subjects but specialise in Yorkshire material and George Gissing.

Erwin Strip-en Boekantiquariaat

Netherlands - Kampen

Book Shop

Antiquarian bookshop

Cărtureşti Iaşi

Romania - Iași

Book Shop

Cărtureşti is a concept store that functions as a library as well as a cultural agent, and is actively involved in the revitalization of artistic life in Romania.

Cărtureşti este...

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...

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

Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist and travel writer, dies aged 92

Writer made international breakthrough with 1980 novel Rituals and won acclaim for his travel writing Continue reading.....

Gisèle Pelicot calls on victims to ‘never have shame’ in her first TV interview

Pelicot says shame is ‘a double sentence’ and describes shock of seeing herself like ‘a rag doll’ in police footage Con...

‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland

The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University ...

Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler

Christian charity executive, Lauren Mastrosa, pen name Tori Woods, found to have written novel that ‘sexually objectifie...

US judges dismiss lawsuits accusing Neil Gaiman of sexual assault

Former nanny Scarlett Pavlovich filed suit in three US states alleging author assaulted her in New Zealand in 2022 Conti...

RecipeTin Eats founder farewells Dozer the golden retriever: ‘I will love you and miss you forever’

Dozer, a golden retriever, regularly appeared on Nagi Maehashi’s blog and featured in her two cookbooks before he died l...

Sales of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights skyrocket ahead of film adaptation

The number of novels sold rose nearly fivefold year on year in the UK in January, Penguin Classics reports, as Emerald F...

‘Gruffalo Granny is coming to stay’: new story to be released in September

Macmillan announces new instalment of popular Julia Donaldson tale featuring illustrations by Axel Scheffler Continue re...

Magic Beach by Alison Lester named Australia’s best children’s picture book

Lester’s 1990 classic about the wonders of nature wins Guardian Australia poll ahead of Possum Magic in second placeAlis...