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Featured library books

The Seamstress

Maria Duenas

Maria Duenas's million copy best-selling tale of adventure, tragedy,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Claudine Married

Colette

Claudine Married: Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Longbourn

Jo Baker

'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,'...

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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 Dead of Winter

Lisa Appignanesi

This is a chilling and psychological thriller is about why some men love...

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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

Working Wonders

Jenny Colgan

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

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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

Fault Line

Robert Goddard

It could be your average suicide. A man found dead in his car, engine...

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From: Bourne, GB

Blood Rush

Helen Black

The UK is gripped by the threat of gang violence - the media is building on...

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From: Bourne, GB

Shopaholic Abroad

Sophie Kinsella

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is great. She has a job on morning TV, her bank...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Collaborator

Margaret Leroy

There's a sudden scatter of birds in the sky. I flinch. Little things...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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

A Voyage For Madmen

Peter Nichols

The true story of the 1968 oceanic adventure of nine sailors who set off in...

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From: Birmingham, GB

What Are You Like - ...

Anne Enright

When Maria turns twenty. she falls in love She is in the wrong town and...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Wallace Black Elk

Wallace Black Elk (1921-2004), a traditional Lakota Elder and spiritual interpreter, was a Channupa (sacred pipe) bearing descendent of the legendary Nicholas Black Elk whose visionary experiences...

Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi parents in the West Midlands in 1976, attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English...

Virginia Woolf

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant...

Featured book drops

The Blue Boar

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

The Blue Boar is a beautiful traditional Cotswold pub. A listed building that dates back to 1641, this old coach house is located right at the end of the high street. A real local...

Birmingham Business School

United Kingdom - University Of Birmingham

Book Drop

Birmingham Business School has been a major player in business education for more than a century. We have an extensive worldwide reach, with many international students studying at...

Pier House Bistro

United Kingdom - Boathouse

Book Drop

Pier House Bistro is a special place to meet, greet and eat! We are situated in picturesque Beaumaris, with stunning views of the Menai Strait and the Snowdonia Mountain range. We...

Featured book shops

Goldsboro Books

United Kingdom - London

Book Shop

Goldsboro Books’ mission is to provide signed first edition books in our central London bookshop and online; ensuring an expert, knowledgeable team and carefully curated range are...

Bienville Books

United States - Mobile

Book Shop

We carry a large selection of used hardcover and paperback fiction, local and regional authors, rare and first editions, history, and other assorted books.

Buch von den Driesch

Germany - Steyerberg

Book Shop

Featured libraries

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

See website for hours of opening.

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

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‘If you see one movie this year’: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey set to storm the box office

The summer’s most anticipated film will raise epic questions about culture wars, classics and the nature of film-making ...

Short story accused of being AI-written wins overall Commonwealth prize

Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which critics allege has ‘obvious markers’ of AI use, was described as ‘original...

Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project

Team hope 30 of hours of footage held by three countries will be enough to bring to life film-maker’s vision Continue re...

Texas makes Bible passages required reading for millions of public school students

Critics say mandating Bible reading for over 5m students breaches constitutional separation of church and state Continue...

Teenage boys in UK ‘stuck’ reading primary-level books while girls’ tastes expand

Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series accounts for eight of the 10 most read books by 11- to 14-year-old boys, while...

Transcription by Ben Lerner wins Orwell prize for political fiction

Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while Karen Bartle...

Pope Leo XIV to publish collection of early writings

Freedom Under Grace will feature previously unpublished homilies and addresses from 2001 to 2013, letting readers ‘obser...

‘Grand and intimate’: Miles Franklin shortlisted novels grapple with profound questions of our time

Six writers in running for $60,000 prize, including first-time nominees Randa Abdel-Fattah, Steve MinOn, Konrad Muller a...

Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is ...