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Recipe for Scandal

Debby Holt

Living with her partner, Tony, his parents and their precocious teenage...

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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

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

Working Wonders

Jenny Colgan

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

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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

It's a Long Way...

Bill Cullen

It's a Long Way from Penny Apples A very warm, funny, affectionate...

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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

Lost Angel

Mandasue Heller

It's a world where crime is almost respectable - until passion ignites...

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From: Ludlow, 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

Breaking Dawn: Twili...

Stephenie Meyer

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

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From: Maidenhead, 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

Ancient Light

John Banville

John Banville's Ancient Light is a story of obsessive young love and...

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From: Ludlow, GB

The Salt Road

Jane Johnson

Jane Johnson's The Salt Road is a magical historical adventure which...

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From: Ludlow, 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 Sound Of Butterf...

Rachael King

It is 1903 when Thomas Edgar says goodbye to his young wife Sophie and...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Nigel Slater

Nigel Slater is a British food writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a column for The Observer Magazine for seventeen years and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly...

Herodotus

Herodotus (/hɨˈrɒdətəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος Hēródotos) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BCE (c....

Maggie Hope

Maggie Hope was born and raised in County Durham. She worked as a nurse for many years , before giving up her career to raise her family.

Featured book drops

Snack Attack Cafe

United Kingdom - Scunthorpe

Book Drop

Established in 2012, Snack Attack Café has two key values: serving quality food at a fair price. We are a family run café and pride ourselves on using locally sourced fresh...

The Spinnaker Cafe

United Kingdom - Broad Street

Book Drop

In place of The Old Slipway Cafe on Broad Street, Old Portsmouth, The Spinnaker Cafe was renovated, re-decorated and brought back to life. Since refurbishment, the cafe has been...

The Old Mill Coffee House & Bistro

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

Opening Hours Monday to Saturday - 8am to 5:30pm Sunday - 9am to 5pm Visa - MasterCard - Maestro - Switch Free WiFi available

Featured book shops

Beacon Books

Ghana - Accra

Book Shop

Brays Books

Australia - Balmain

Book Shop

Brays Books opened in 1969 under the ownership of Philip and Margaret Bray and has been providing professional service and a wide range of books ever since.

Philip Bray is now the...

Moss Books

United Kingdom - Cheltenham

Book Shop

Featured libraries

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...

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

Gromit finally gets a voice … and it’s Martin Freeman

After 37 years, the staunchly silent dog will speak for the first time in the audiobook of his autobiography – and it tu...

Please, sir, can I have a walk? Dickens biographer finds likely inspiration for Oliver Twist

Exclusive: Theresa Musgrove unearths newspaper archives showing one Alice Shepherd was severely punished in 1836 for sim...

Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026

Most prestigious literature prize goes to Canadian known for genre-crossing works such as Autobiography of Red‘Delights ...

Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026 – as it happened

This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here:Full story: Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literatur...

Queensland literary awards: ‘stunning’ debut inspired by segregated shantytown wins top prize

Lenora Thaker wins $30,000 prize for ‘a work of state significance’ for The Pearl of Tagai Town, which draws on her fami...

Anne Carson and Can Xue favourites to win Nobel prize in literature

The Canadian poet and Chinese experimental writer are the bookmakers’ favourites to win, with Haruki Murakami, Gerald Mu...

Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102

Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adop...

Jeffrey Archer – a life in pictures

Former British politician and bestselling novelist Jeffrey Archer has died aged 86. We look back at a varied and tumultu...

Children’s books with Black main characters down 8% in a year, study shows

Only 150 of 2,189 titles published in UK for young children last year focused on minority ethnic, disabled or neurodiver...