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Featured library books

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

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

Who Killed Palomino ...

Mario Vargas Llosa

This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air...

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From: Birmingham, GB

As Darkness Falls

Bronwyn Parry

An abducted child. A ruthless killer. A race against time. Haunted by her...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

I, Alex Cross

James Patterson

A Cross family member is murdered, and the case catapults Alex into a...

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From: Ludlow, GB

The Tiger's Wif...

Tea Obreht

In April of 1941, the German bombs started falling over the city and did...

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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

The Long Way Home

Audrey Howard

Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor - even by the standards of...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Father's Reve...

Kitty Neale

A mother must fight to protect all she holds dear… Thirteen years have...

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From: Birmingham, GB

All He Ever Wanted

Anita Shreve

A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Plague Ship

Clive Cussler

Oregon Files: In a Norwegian glacier during the Second World War, a Nazi...

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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

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

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Land Of Green Gi...

Winifred Holtby

Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

E.L. James

I’m a former TV executive, wife and mother-of-two based in the leafy suburbs of West London. Since January 2012 my life has taken an extraordinary turn with the runaway success of the Fifty Shades...

Sarah Morgan

About SarahUSA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan writes romance and contemporary women's fiction and her trademark humour and sensuality have gained her fans across the globe. She is a 3 time...

Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl, which was made into a TV drama and a major...

Featured book drops

Birmingham Business School

United Kingdom - University Of Birmingham

Book Drop

Birmingham Business School has been a major player in business education for more than a century. We have an extensive worldwide reach, with many international students studying at...

The Bell

United Kingdom - Welford Upon Avon

Book Drop

Deep in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside, The Bell Inn is an outstanding 17th century inn, complete with exposed beams, flagstone floors, oak furniture, open...

Akamba Heritage & Garden Centre

United Kingdom - Solihull

Book Drop

At Akamba we offer all services ranging from garden design, event hire, plant hire, or a simple chat on the telephone to answer a query. We are also Solihull’s Premier African...

Featured book shops

Kleynes Antikvariat

Sweden - Karlstad

Book Shop

Antiquarian bookshop

Antiquariat Turszynski

Germany - München

Book Shop

Rare and curious books of the 16th to 19th century.

Afterwords Books

United States - Edwardsville

Book Shop

Afterwords Books is dedicated to providing exceptional customer service and affordable books to the Edwardsville, IL area. We are extremely grateful to our long-time customers who...

Featured libraries

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...

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

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...

Quidditch, Muggles, magic: new Harry Potter trailer gives full look at TV show

HBO’s extended trailer reveals more details of JK Rowling’s wizarding world coming to screens this Christmas Continue re...

Britain is OK with public ownership, but only by foreign powers. Why?

Arthur Downing, author of Power and the People: A History of British Energy, says all-encompassing rapid transition will...

Emily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey from scratch

Writer who criticised Christopher Nolan film based on her 2017 translation is working on new version of Homer’s poem Con...

US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds

PEN America study details verbal and physical threats to librarians, funding cuts and proliferation of book bans Continu...

Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92

Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial ...

Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based project Continue readi...

‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Rotherham

Country star came to South Yorkshire town in 2007 for UK launch of the Imagination Library, her book donation scheme Con...