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Featured library books

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

The Farm

Richard Benson

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

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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

A Dance of Ghosts (P...

Kevin Brooks

PI John Craine is struggling to cope with the weight of his past. Sixteen...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Pilot's Wif...

Anita Shreve

Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Behaviour Of Mot...

Poppy Adams

From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

The Sweetest Thing

Cathy Woodman

Jennie Copeland thought she knew the recipe for a happy life: marriage to...

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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

Out of the Mists

John Barrington

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Fifth Woman: Kur...

Henning Mankell

Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage...

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From: Birmingham, GB

THE INTERPRETATION O...

JED RUBENFELD

'Manhattan, 1909. On the morning after Sigmund Freud arrives in New...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Breaking Point

John Macken

There is a killer loose on the London Underground. He kills without...

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From: Birmingham, 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

She's Come Undo...

Wally Lamb

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

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From: Broxbourne, GB

The Prince Of Mist

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

1943. As war sweeps across Europe, Max Carver's father moves his...

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From: Bourne, GB

Featured authors

Deborah Andrews

Deborah is an award-winning theatre practitioner turned novelist. Most notably her theatrical adaptation of Dream State: The New Scottish Poets won a Scotsman Fringe First Award; she established the...

Anna Jacobs

Anna Jacobs has 57 novels published as of April 2012. She writes historical sagas and modern novels alternately, and in the past has written historical romances and fantasy novels (the latter as...

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies and journalist pieces....

Featured book drops

The Golden Retriever

United Kingdom - Bracknell

Book Drop

The Golden Retriever in Bracknell is a country pub & restaurant oozing rural charm and rustic character. Our picturesque surroundings provide the perfect backdrop for savouring...

The Generous Briton

United Kingdom - Lincoln

Book Drop

Steeped in history and set on the High Street in the centre of the pretty little village of Brant Broughton The Generous Briton has been a public house for over 200 years. The...

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...

Featured book shops

BCN Books Bookshop (Librerias BCN Books)

Spain - Barcelona

Book Shop

CEU Academic Bookstore

Hungary - Budapest

Book Shop

The bookshop at Budapest’s renowned Central European University has an excellent selection of academic and business titles with a regional focus.

Unichurch Books

Australia - Parkville

Book Shop

CTM Resourcing is a rich trove of resources for supporting, encouraging and informing discipleship and ministry. The resources are texts, products and materials, primarily UCA...

Featured libraries

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

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...

Featured book news

Previously unseen drawings by Moomins author Tove Jansson to go on show in London

Exclusive: Exhibition focussing on Finnish writer and artist’s illustrations will include original art from her first Mo...

Magazine from 1894 returned to New Hampshire library after over 130 years

John Hanson, 84, took advantage of fine amnesty at library to return copy that could’ve amounted to $12,055 in late fees...

Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on current affairs shows will be remembered for her ...

Singapore pays people to pick up a book in battle against doomscrolling

Affluent city-state hopes plan will improve critical thinking and imagination ‘in a world of extraordinary abundance of ...

Andrew Davies admits to drawing on ‘stimulating’ Made in Chelsea for Jane Austen adaptation

Screenwriter points to parallels between two worlds while academic says some of author’s characters ‘would make perfect ...

Jeremy Thomas, British producer of The Last Emperor and Sexy Beast, dies aged 77

An outstanding figure in the UK film industry, Thomas was noted for collaborations with directors including Bernardo Ber...

Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2026: ‘profound’ novel based on Yolngu oral history wins $80,000

Judges praised A Piece of Red Cloth as a ‘landmark achievement in fiction’, with Kate Wild, Zana Fraillon and Rohan Howi...

Hillary Clinton leads tributes to Gloria Steinem: ‘Her activism was rooted in optimism’

Ex-secretary of state joins Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Roxane Gay and others in heralding groundbreaking feministGloria S...

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

Prolific author campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, pornography and the Vietnam and Gulf wa...