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Featured library books

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

White Oleander

Janet Fitch

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

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From: Ludlow, GB

I, Alex Cross

James Patterson

A Cross family member is murdered, and the case catapults Alex into a...

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From: Ludlow, GB

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When Nigeria is shaken by a political coup Kambilli's father, whose...

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From: Bourne, GB

Portrait in Sepia

Isabel Allende

After her mother dies in childbirth, Aurora del Valle is raised by her...

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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 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

Murder at the Savoy ...

Maj Sjowall

The sixth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s...

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From: Dunstable, GB

The Garden of Burnin...

Corban Addison

In Zambia, American lawyer Zoe Fleming and policeman Joseph Kabuta have...

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From: Birmingham, GB

How Hard Can It Be?

Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson had a dream... A world where the nonsensical made sense,...

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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

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 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

The Farm

Richard Benson

When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Father's Reve...

Kitty Neale

A mother must fight to protect all she holds dear… Thirteen years have...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Lucy Popescu

Lucy Popescu is a writer, editor and arts critic with a background in human rights. She worked with the English Centre of PEN, the international association of writers, for over 20 years and was...

Jasvinder Sanghera

Jasvinder Sanghera is an activist and advocate for women's rights who was born in Derby. She is the co-founder of Karma Nirvana, a community-based project where there are a group of refuge...

Deanna Raybourn

A sixth-generation native Texan, New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a double major in English and history and an emphasis on...

Featured book drops

Snack Attack Cafe

United Kingdom - Scunthorpe

Book Drop

Established in 2012, Snack Attack Café has two key values: serving quality food at a fair price. We are a family run café and pride ourselves on using locally sourced fresh...

The Tea Set

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

The Tea Set in Chipping Norton and Broadway are two new tea rooms in the Cotswolds. The Tea Set offers afternoon tea, coffee and cake, lunches, pre-theatre dinners with bubbly and...

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!

Featured book shops

Dymocks Perth

Australia - Perth

Book Shop

With 65 stores in Australia and over 10 million books sold last year, Dymocks is the leading bookseller in Australia.

As a family owned business and the oldest Australian-owned...

Forbidden Planet International - Middlesborough

United Kingdom - Middlesbrough

Book Shop

17 shops bringing you the finest in comics, graphic novels and cult merchandise

China Books

Australia - Melbourne

Book Shop

The main office of CHINA BOOKS is located in Melbourne's Chinatown where we also operate a retail book shop (at the corner of Little Bourke & Swanston Streets, above the...

Featured libraries

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...

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

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...

Featured book news

Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn

Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize Continue reading.........

Cormac McCarthy had 16-year-old ‘muse’ when he was 42, Vanity Fair reports

Augusta Britt says relationship with then-married author, who died in 2023, began after they met at motel pool Continue ...

Author Kamel Daoud sued over claim he used life of wife’s patient in novel

Woman says French-Algerian writer’s prize-winning Houris uses her story as she told it to therapist Aicha Dehdouh Contin...

Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital tops UK bestseller list

The short novel narrating a day in the life of six astronauts on the International Space Station becomes the first book ...

Australian National University’s word of the year is a portmanteau for cost-of-living rage

‘Colesworth’ – combining the supermarket duopoly’s names – beat ‘breaking’, inspired by Rachael Gunn’s controversial Par...

Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford prize and questions sponsor’s fossil fuel ties

Australian author says he will not accept £50,000 prize money until fund manager reduces its fossil fuel investments Con...

Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87

The writer was also a renowned academic and poet as well as being one of the leading figures of second wave feminism Con...

HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models

Some nonfiction backlist titles will be used to train artificial intelligence with authors’ permission Continue reading....

Arthur Frommer, budget travel guide innovator, dies aged 95

Europe on 5 Dollars a Day author revolutionized leisure travel and built one of best-known names in travel industry Cont...