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Featured library books

She's Come Undo...

Wally Lamb

Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached...

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From: Broxbourne, GB

Touch & Go

Lisa Gardner

Compulsive, chilling and utterly unputdownable, this is award-winning...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Sensible Life

Mary Wesley

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Welcome To Rosie Hop...

Jenny Colgan

Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled...

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From: Birmingham, 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

Now You See Her

James Patterson

To save her own life, Nina Bloom vanished. Now, to rescue an innocent man,...

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From: Birmingham, 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

The Complete Mapp & ...

E.F. Benson

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

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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

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

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

The Amateur Marriage

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage is not so much a novel as a really...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Man Without Breath

Philip Kerr

It is winter, 1943. Bernie Gunther has left the Criminal Police and is...

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From: Ludlow, 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

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

Featured authors

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama." Ibsen is held to be...

Anne O'Brien

My home is in the Welsh Marches, although much of my early life was spent in Yorkshire, most recently in the East Riding.Ann O'Brien The Marches is a remote region of England, surrounded by echoes...

Melanie McGrath

Melanie McGrath was born in Essex. Her first book, Motel Nirvana, won the John Llewelyn-Rhys/Mail on Sunday award for Best New British and Commonwealth Writer under 35. She is also the author of Hard,...

Featured book drops

The Old Mill Retreat Cafe

United Kingdom - Broxbourne

Book Drop

The Old Mill Retreat Cafe is located in beautiful surroundings and ideal for riverside dining, and is well blended into the scenic towpath/river. Inside is a cosy cafe with...

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...

Constance Wallace

United Kingdom - Barnt Green

Book Drop

Constance Wallace offers an incredible range of authentic vintage china hire, cutlery and other accessories that can be conveniently sourced for weddings, christenings, birthday,...

Featured book shops

Rosenkilde Boghandel

Denmark - København

Book Shop

Books and Pieces

United Kingdom - Nottingham

Book Shop

Books and Pieces stocks rare and secondhand books, from a wide range of genres.

Jabberwock Secondhand Bookshop

United Kingdom - Horncastle

Book Shop

We sell secondhand books covering many areas of fiction and non-fiction.

Featured libraries

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

See website for hours of opening.

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...

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Senior Reform UK figures attend launch of How to Launder Money book

Co-author George Cottrell is close aide to party leader Nigel Farage and served several months in US prison Continue rea...

‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments

Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check Contin...

‘I loved it!’: Brontë museum staff praise racy Wuthering Heights film

Staff at Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth embrace Emerald Fennell’s sex-laced take, while Emily Brontë’s most recent b...

Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment

Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical Contin...

Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist and travel writer, dies aged 92

Writer made international breakthrough with 1980 novel Rituals and won acclaim for his travel writing Continue reading.....

Gisèle Pelicot calls on victims to ‘never have shame’ in her first TV interview

Pelicot says shame is ‘a double sentence’ and describes shock of seeing herself like ‘a rag doll’ in police footage Con...

‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland

The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University ...

Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler

Christian charity executive, Lauren Mastrosa, pen name Tori Woods, found to have written novel that ‘sexually objectifie...

US judges dismiss lawsuits accusing Neil Gaiman of sexual assault

Former nanny Scarlett Pavlovich filed suit in three US states alleging author assaulted her in New Zealand in 2022 Conti...