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Featured library books

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A novel built out of a series of dramatic scenes that illuminate eternal...

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From: Dunstable, GB

Paula

Isabel Allende

When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell...

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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

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

Their Eyes Were Watc...

Zora Neale with an introductio...

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best known work by...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Out of the Mists

John Barrington

This collection of traditional stories gathered from all reaches of...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Farm

Richard Benson

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds...

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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 Book Of Salt

Monique Truong

The Book of Salt serves up a wholly original take on Paris in the 1930s...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Diamond Dust & Other...

Anita Desai

Whole lives come into focus in this rich and diverse collection, as...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Dead Won't ...

Anna Smith

Krimi. The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on the beach...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Spitfire Girls

Carol Gould

Top-class pilots were crucial to the survival of Great Britain during the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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 Friday Night Kni...

Kate Jacobs

Casting on ... It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their...

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From: Ludlow, GB

Featured authors

Donovan Wylie

Donovan Wylie was born in Belfast in 1971. He is a photographer and film-maker. His books include 32 Countries, Losing Ground and The Maze. He was the youngest ever full member of the Magnum...

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense,...

Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat writes op-ed columns for English and Hindi newspapers, including Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar, focusing on youth and issues based on national development. Bhagat is also a...

Featured book drops

The Coffee Tree

United Kingdom - Aylesbury

Book Drop

We provide top quality home-made food of the highest standard, using local suppliers and strive to use fresh ingredients in all our products, none of which are pre-packed days in...

The Village Inn

United Kingdom - Bay Street

Book Drop

The Village Inn is the ideal place to bring your family and friends for a truly memorable dining experience. Situated in the small village of Fairlie on the North Ayrshire coast...

The White Hart

United Kingdom - The White Hart, Main Road, Fyfield, Abingdon, Oxon,

Book Drop

Kay and Mark Chandler welcome you to the White Hart, their beautiful country pub and restaurant, set in the picturesque village of Fyfield, just 7 miles from the city of Oxford....

Featured book shops

Bookstacks

United States - Bucksport

Book Shop

Established in 1997, BookStacks is a terrific little independent bookstore.

Galerie Zic & Bul

France - Paris

Book Shop

Art gallery and comic book store

The Well Bookshop

Australia - Applecross

Book Shop

he Well Bookshop, which opened in 2000, is an independent bookshop located in the Applecross Village Shopping Centre in the heart of leafy -green Applecross. There are 6 alfresco...

Featured libraries

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

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See website for hours of opening.

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...

Featured book news

M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize

The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 awardGuardian fiction editor Justin...

How the story of ‘the girl of 100 portraits’ inspired two books

Luc Corlouër made ‘deal’ with Prix Goncourt winner Philippe Jaenada over his research into model Louise Cansot, murdered...

Russell Brand books withdrawn by UK publishers after his conviction for rape and sexual assault

Pan Macmillan and Hodder & Stoughton have both confirmed that work by the comedian and writer will be pulled, and ot...

Winner of the Prix Goncourt literary prize admits to using AI

Philippe Jaenada told French radio that he used ChatGPT to ‘play with the reader’, after the prize removed a different b...

‘Blockbuster’ history of Alexander the Great wins £50,000 Baillie Gifford prize

Alexander: God, King, Man by Edmund Richardson becomes the first ancient history title to win the prestigious nonfiction...

‘He was destined for this award’: China Miéville wins Goldsmiths prize for 1,200-page novel

The Rouse, which took its author two decades to complete, was praised by judges as ‘exuberant, overflowing’ Continue rea...

Latest Sarah J Maas book becomes UK’s fastest-selling adult fantasy novel

A Court of Splintered Harmony also records biggest single week of sales since Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman in 2015 Con...

The private creative world of Rabindranath Tagore, the man Yeats called ‘greater than any of us’

A previously unseen family archive offers a glimpse into the Indian Nobel prize winner’s artistic process and personal r...

‘A trailblazer in the truest sense’: poet Grace Nichols wins £10,000 Pioneer prize

The Guyana-born, British-based writer takes home the Royal Society of Literature prize honouring women writers over 60 w...