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Featured library books

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

The Return

Victoria Hislop

THE RETURN debuted at number two in the Sunday Times hardback fiction...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

Journey to the Centr...

Jules Verne

Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to...

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From: Birmingham, 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

In a Far Country

Linda Holeman

Pree Fincastle, daughter of impoverished British missionaries in India, is...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Danish Girl

David Ebershoff

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and directed by...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Knight

Gene Wolfe

THE WIZARD KNIGHT springs from the myths, legends and literature of times...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Jumping The Queue

Mary Wesley

Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four...

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From: Scunthorpe, 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

Their Eyes Were Watc...

Zora Neale with an introductio...

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best known work by...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Blue Monday: A Fried...

Nicci French

Blue Monday A day for murder... Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is...

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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

Conversation in the ...

Mario Vargas Llosa

Under the rule of the unseen military dictator General Ordia, suspicion,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Lost Angel

Mandasue Heller

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

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From: Ludlow, GB

Village by the Sea

Anita Desai

An award-winning story about a family's survival in a small fishing...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Julia Llewellyn

Writes stuff for newspapers and novels under cunning pseudonym Julia Llewellyn. Always picks Asterix, Stones, dogs over Tintin, Beatles, cats.

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Norwegian descent, who rose to prominence in the 1940's with works for both children and adults, and became one of the...

Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province...

Featured book drops

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

Cafe Cream

United Kingdom - Crown Walk

Book Drop

We offer a deliciously tempting menu of hot drinks, cold drinks, snacks and ice cream, all within the Bo-Jangles salon! Treat yourself to coffee, high quality ice cream, paninis,...

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...

Featured book shops

St. Paul's Street Bookshop

United Kingdom - Saint Paul'S Street

Book Shop

Our bookshop is situated in a medieval building in the historic town of Stamford, Lincolnshire.

We deal in good quality second-hand and antiquarian books, specialising in books on...

Byrd's Books

United States - Bethel

Book Shop

We moved to our new location at 126 Greenwood Avenue in September 2013 into the center of Bethel’s historic downtown. We have plenty of parking, and a rear entrance, behind English...

Argosy Bookshop

United States - New York

Book Shop

Argosy Book Store, founded in 1925, is now in its third generation of family ownership. Our enormous stock of antiquarian and out-of-print items fills a six-floor building in...

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.

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

Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition

Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to...

Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist

Thirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000 Continue reading....

New edition of Ferrara bible shows how persecuted Jews kept faith alive in Spanish

Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language Continue rea...

Only 10% of boys aged 14-16 read daily for pleasure, National Literacy Trust finds

Exclusive: Report says British teenagers’ time for books is being crowded out by schoolwork, screens and sports Continue...

‘Immensely heartened’: Sally Rooney hails Palestine Action high court ruling as victory for UK civil liberties

Exclusive: Irish author, who feared her books being withdrawn from UK, says proscription had been ‘extreme assault’ on r...

Six great reads: dating in later life; a lost Amazon van, ‘gong bath’ freezers, and Toni Morrison

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue re...

Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees ‘is not value for money’

Party withdraws all Lancashire libraries from City of Sanctuary UK programme that supports new arrivals to UK Continue ...

KPMG asks Sydney writers’ festival to delete its name from website after Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed as speaker

Festival confirmed writer and academic would appear in two sessions in 2026 following disinvitation from Adelaide eventF...

‘Summer is coming!’: Royal Shakespeare Company to stage epic Game of Thrones prequel

Novelist George RR Martin says RSC is ‘obvious choice’ to put on new play The Mad King, which will open after spring Con...