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Featured library books

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 Danish Girl

David Ebershoff

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes...

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From: Bourne, GB

The Pirate's Da...

Margaret Cezair Thompson

THE PIRATE'S DAUGHTER by Margaret Cezair-Thompson is an unforgettable...

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From: Birmingham, GB

White Oleander

Janet Fitch

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl...

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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 Devil's Mus...

Jane Rusbridge

It is 1958 and the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

The Know

Martina Cole

Joanie Brewer loves the bones of her three children. She'd do anything...

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From: Beaumaris, GB

Welcome To Rosie Hop...

Jenny Colgan

Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled...

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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

Mendel's Dwarf

Simon Mawer

Hailed by the "New Yorker" as a "furious, tender, and wittily erudite...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Darling Strumpet

Gillian Bagwell

From her beginnings as a humble oyster seller, Nell Gwynn’s dazzling rise...

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From: Birmingham, 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

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

Conversation in the ...

Mario Vargas Llosa

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Bali Rai

Bali Rai is an author of books for teenage readers and winner of the Leicester Book Award and The Angus Book Award.

Alice Walker

Alice Walker (b. 1944), one of the United States’ preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win...

Rumi

Profile in Farsi: مولویMawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی), also known as Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balḫī (Persian: محمد بلخى) or Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi,...

Featured book drops

Cromarty Arms Inn

United Kingdom - Cromarty

Book Drop

The Cromarty Arms is a family run pub providing bed and breakfast accommodation and delicious home-made bar meals. We have a beer garden and are adjacent to three historical...

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 Bell

United Kingdom - Welford Upon Avon

Book Drop

Deep in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside, The Bell Inn is an outstanding 17th century inn, complete with exposed beams, flagstone floors, oak furniture, open...

Featured book shops

Hinnerup Boghandel

Denmark - Hinnerup

Book Shop

Panton's English Bookshop

Italy - Milano

Book Shop

The shop stocks over 60,000 titles, and covers a wide variety of interests including fiction, history, travel, children’s books, cookery books, art, cinema, theatre, poetry,...

Emile Kerssemakers

Netherlands - Heerlen

Book Shop

We specialise in religious, philosophical and historical antiquarian books.

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

The...

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

Featured book news

Superman No 1 sells for $9.12m, becoming most expensive comic ever sold

The pristine copy of Superman No 1, the character’s first solo title from 1939, was discovered in an attic in California...

More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work

A new study by the University of Cambridge found many authors’ work has already been used – without their permission – t...

Angoulême comics festival in crisis as creators and publishers declare boycott

French government withdraws funding after claims of toxic management and dismissal of staff member who lodged rape compl...

Rabih Alameddine wins National book award for fiction with darkly comic epic spanning six decades

True to his irreverent style, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) thanks his psychiatris...

Daniel Radcliffe writes supportive letter to Harry Potter successor in new TV series

The actor said he wrote wishing 11-year-old Dominic McLaughlin ‘an even better time’ growing up in the role than he had ...

Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs

Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligence use Con...

David Nicholls to adapt The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ for BBC

One Day author leading writing team bringing one of the best-known literary creations of the 1980s to life Continue read...

Epic movie: Christopher Nolan uses 2m ft of film for adaptation of The Odyssey

The director has revealed suitably grand scale of his forthcoming Homeric adventure, which was shot with Imax cameras an...

Wuthering Heights: bold new trailer for Emerald Fennell’s epic adaptation

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi lead the Saltburn writer-director’s Charli xcx-soundtracked take on Emily Brontë’s novel,...