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Featured library books

Journey to the Centr...

Jules Verne

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

Quicksand AND Passin...

Nella Larsen

Quicksand, written in 1928, is the first novel to give an open voice to...

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From: Broxbourne, GB

Jumping The Queue

Mary Wesley

Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four...

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From: Scunthorpe, GB

Midnight's Chil...

Salman Rushdie

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Girl Under the O...

Leah Fleming

Back in 1941 the Greek island of Crete is captured by the Germans and the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Devil That Dance...

Aminatta Forna

An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Complete Mapp & ...

E.F. Benson

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Long Way Home

Audrey Howard

Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor - even by the standards of...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Dear John

Nicholas Sparks

From America's most beloved storyteller comes an unforgettable tale...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Pretty Little Things

Jilliane Hoffman

A terrifying new standalone psycholgical thriller from the bestselling...

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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

Plague Ship

Clive Cussler

Oregon Files: In a Norwegian glacier during the Second World War, a Nazi...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Breaking Dawn: Twili...

Stephenie Meyer

Twilight tempted the imagination . . . New Moon made readers thirsty for...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

Giving Up the Ghost

Hilary Mantel

Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Nadia Knows Best

Jill Mansell

Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Nicola Graimes

Nicola Graimes has been a food writer, editor and stylist for over 20 years, but her interest in vegetarianism extends far beyond that. She was the editor of Vegetarian Living magazine for 5 years and...

Miranda Dickinson

Miranda Dickinson has always had a head full of stories. Coming from a creative family where stories and songs were always present, it was perhaps inevitable that she would end up adoring words. A...

Anaïs Nin

French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's...

Featured book drops

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...

Crown & Cushion Hotel

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

There's more to The Crown & Cushion than at a first glance. As well as boasting 40 en-suite bedrooms, There's a cosy Traditional Bar,Bistro Restaurant, Comfy Lounge,...

The Generous Briton

United Kingdom - Lincoln

Book Drop

Steeped in history and set on the High Street in the centre of the pretty little village of Brant Broughton The Generous Briton has been a public house for over 200 years. The...

Featured book shops

Rossiter Books - Ross-on-Wye

United Kingdom - Ross-On-Wye

Book Shop

La Rubrique à Bulles

France - Paris

Book Shop

Comic book store

La Feltrinelli International

Italy - Roma

Book Shop

We stock art, politics, children's, foreign literature and Italian literature 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...

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

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

Featured book news

‘I need positive things to come of this’: graphic novelist rocked by brother’s suicide donates profits to charity

Award-winning Zoe Thorogood hopes the money raised can help halt rising numbers of young men taking own lives Continue r...

Han Kang’s books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in literature

Nine of the Top 10 bestsellers in Korea’s largest bookstore chain are works by Han with her win being honoured by politi...

How to put your phone down and get back into habit of reading books

After an English academic at Oxford complained about students’ attention spans, we get experts’ tips on enjoying the wri...

Mark Milley fears being court-martialed if Trump wins, Woodward book says

Retired US army general fears unusual action of being recalled to uniform for retribution, veteran reporter writes Conti...

Forward poetry prize goes to Victoria Chang for collection inspired by painter Agnes Martin

Chang’s With My Back to the World takes the main £10,000 award while Marjorie Lotfi, Cindy Juyoung Ok and Leyla Josephin...

Imprisoned British-Egyptian activist named PEN writer of courage 2024

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is still in jail in Egypt despite completing his five-year sentence, was selected by PEN Pinter ...

Nuclear war rehearsal and Gauguin biography make shortlist for Baillie Gifford prize

Books by Rachel Clarke, Richard Flanagan and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the six competing for the nonfiction award Cont...

South Korea’s Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel prize in literature – as it happened

This blog is now closed, you can read our full report here Continue reading.........

South Korean author Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel prize in literature

Han, whose works include The Vegetarian, was praised for her ‘intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and...