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Featured library books

The Crimson Rooms

Katharine McMahon

Evelyn is struggling to come to terms with the loss of her brother in the...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

Kiss of Evil

Richard Montanari

He's watching. He's waiting. He'll stop at nothing. The...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Certain Age

Tama Janowitz

When Florence Collins sets out for a weekend in the Hamptons, her life...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Infinite Plan

Isabel Allende

Charles Reeves is a preacher, mystic and formulator of the Infinite Plan -...

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From: Aylesbury, 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 Complete Mapp & ...

E.F. Benson

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

Alex Cross, Run

James Patterson

Detective Alex Cross is hunting three killers, but is someone hunting...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Matters Of Life & De...

Bernard MacLaverty

A new book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration,...

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From: Birmingham, 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

Chocolat

Joanne Harris

When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of...

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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 Unfortunates

Laurie Graham

What hope is there for Poppy Minkel? She has kinky hair,out sticking ears,...

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From: Birmingham, 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

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

Waiting for Wednesda...

Nicci French

A Frieda Klein Novel. Waiting For Wednesday by Nicci French is the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller was the son of poor Jewish parents from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write; at the age of eleven, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland. He sent it to New York...

Chris Ryan

Chris Ryan was born in 1961 in a village near Newcastle. In 1984 he joined the SAS. During his ten years in the Regiment, he was involved in overt and covert operations and was also Sniper team...

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Whittier was...

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...

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 Nags Head Hotel

United Kingdom - London Road

Book Drop

The Nags Head in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire is an AA 4 Star graded traditional 15th century country inn and restaurant situated along the valley of the River Misbourne in the...

Featured book shops

Madoc Books

United Kingdom - Llandudno

Book Shop

We have collected Fine & Rare Antiquarian Books specifically on Wales for over 10 years and are now using that knowledge and network to establish the premier Welsh influenced...

Brazos Bookstore

United States - Houston

Book Shop

n 1974, Karl Kilian opened Brazos Bookstore to encourage the growth and development of the emerging Houston literary scene with a clear focus on personalized service, community...

Bayou Book Company

United States - Oak Creek

Book Shop

From its modest beginnings in 1986 as a 2000 sq. foot bookstore, Bayou Book Co. – Hallmark has grown in the ensuing 22 years to 6200 square feet of books, gifts, and Hallmark...

Featured libraries

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

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The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

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

Featured book news

Publishing powerhouse Louise Adler named director of Adelaide writers’ week

The Melbourne publisher a frequent presence at Australia’s largest literary festival, having sat on panels and interview...

Julia and the Shark’s writers on their pandemic-driven book lauded by Waterstones

The novel written and illustrated by husband-and-wife duo, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston, has been named ch...

How an innocent Black man served time for the rape of author Alice Sebold

Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in jail as victim of miscarriage of justice but has accepted author’s apology Continue...

Debut novel by ‘Russian Proust’ to be published in English for the first time

The translation of Deceit by ‘groundbreaking’ author Yuri Felsen, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to come out next...

Marcus Rashford to publish children’s novel The Breakfast Club Adventures

The footballer and campaigner is writing story with Alex Falase-Koya, drawing on his own memories of friendships made be...

Alice Sebold’s publisher pulls memoir after overturned rape conviction

Scribner has responded to the news that Anthony Broadwater has been cleared of the crime at the centre of Lucky by ceasi...

Unmasked: the Penguin saves world from Covid in Danny DeVito’s Batman story

The actor, who played him in Batman Returns, has written a storyline for an 80th anniversary edition of the DC comic whi...

Film version of Alice Sebold book scrapped after rape conviction overturned

A screen adaptation of the memoir Lucky is no longer in production after the man who was found guilty of the crime at th...

Novelist Bernardine Evaristo to be president of Royal Society of Literature

Author best known for Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other will be first writer of colour in position Continue reading........