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Featured library books

The Little Prince

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a...

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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

Alex Cross, Run

James Patterson

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Know

Martina Cole

Joanie Brewer loves the bones of her three children. She'd do anything...

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From: Beaumaris, GB

Breakfast with the N...

Rumer Godden

For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

Kill Alex Cross

James Patterson

The President's children have been kidnapped. The water supply for...

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From: Bourne, GB

Aftermath

Peter Robinson

Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Blue Zone

Andrew Gross

They were the perfect family. And he was the perfect family man. One day...

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From: Birmingham, 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 Legacy

Katherine Webb

IN THE DEPTHS OF A HARSH WINTER, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF THEIR GRANDMOTHER,...

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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

Rescue

Anita Shreve

Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a...

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From: Birmingham, 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

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

Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Simon Mawer

Simon Mawer (born 1948, England) is a British author. He currently lives in Italy.

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) exerted a profound, enduring influence on American thought and letters. His famous experiment in living close to nature, and his equally famous night in jail to protest...

Mary Ann Shaffer

Mary Ann Shaffer worked as an editor, a librarian, and in bookshops. Her life-long dream was to someday write her own book and publish it. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her...

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...

Caffe Nero Chipping Norton

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

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Our story goes back around 20 years, to our founder Gerry Ford. Armed with a passion for coffee, he had a vision to create traditional Italian cafés across Europe; places that...

Snowshill Arms

United Kingdom - Snowshill, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7JU

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Close to the historic Snowshill Manor, which is open to the public, The Snowshill Arms lies in this very pretty village. This is a family-friendly, locals pub which also welcomes...

Featured book shops

Hugo Bookstore

United States - Marblehead

Book Shop

Hugobooks began as a 500 square foot store in Marblehead, Mass. on February 15, 1965, opened by Robert W. Hugo three months before his graduation from UMass-Amherst. Called The...

Die Bücherwürmer

Germany - Konstanz

Book Shop

Tales on Moon Lane

United Kingdom - London

Book Shop

We are an award winning Children’s Independent Bookshop in South-East London. Our family-centred bookshop has children at the heart of everything we do.

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

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

Featured book news

‘Exceptional’: rare books of illustrations from Darwin’s ‘bird man’ on sale for £2m

The set of folios published by John Gould will be presented at Firsts book fair in London in mid-May Continue reading......

‘We are disappearing’: chef Fadi Kattan aims to keep Palestinian heritage alive through food

Palestinian restauranteur speaks from Bethlehem, where food stalls are sparse as farmlands are under attack Continue rea...

‘It really isn’t good enough’: crime novel of the year award criticised for entirely white longlist

Authors including Dreda Say Mitchell, Harriet Tyce and Sarah Pinborough have expressed disapproval of the Theakston Old ...

Gaza vote divides Society of Authors after call to condemn Israeli military action

Extraordinary general meeting of the UK writers’ union narrowly voted against making an official protest at violence tha...

Experts dismiss Kristi Noem’s ‘dubious’ claim to have met Kim Jong-un

South Dakota governor says she met North Korean dictator in same book in which she describes killing her dog Continue re...

Author Franz Kafka’s life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows

Man who emerges from German TV series is a far cry from myth of tortured artist alienated from his family and job Contin...

‘We must not stop’: potential Trump VP Ben Carson touts national abortion ban

In new book, retired neurosurgeon and former housing secretary emphasises extreme stance at odds even with Trump himself...

Biden was silenced by criticism from families of troops killed in Kabul, book says. ‘Sir, are you still there?’

Ex-White House press secretary Jen Psaki describes telling president of anger that he spoke so much of his own dead son,...

Kristi Noem calls dog shooting report ‘fake news’ but insists on need to kill animal

‘Dog lover’ South Dakota governor said 14-month-old hound was ‘extremely dangerous’ but failed to mention slowly killing...