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Featured member book shelves

Paracom
Fiction
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Sarah Morgan
Christmas Ever After (Puffin Island trilogy, Book 3)
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Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
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Kami Garcia
Beautiful Darkness (Book 2): 2/4 (Beautiful Creatures)
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Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
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Mark Watson
The Knot
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Thrillers
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Charlotte Carter
Rhode Island Red
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John Grisham
The Pelican Brief
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Fiction
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Ian Caldwell
The Rule Of Four
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Nicolas Freeling
Gun Before Butter
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William Trevor
The Silence in the Garden
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Featured library books

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Dear John

Nicholas Sparks

From America's most beloved storyteller comes an unforgettable tale...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Plague Ship

Clive Cussler

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Waiting for Wednesda...

Nicci French

A Frieda Klein Novel. Waiting For Wednesday by Nicci French is the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Soldier's W...

Margaret Leroy

1940, GUERNSEY. Vivienne de la Mare waits nervously for the bombs to...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Crimson Petal An...

Michel Faber

NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Gillian...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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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

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Working Wonders

Jenny Colgan

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Anderby Wold

Winifred Holtby

Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic...

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From: Bourne, GB

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Touch & Go

Lisa Gardner

Compulsive, chilling and utterly unputdownable, this is award-winning...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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THE INTERPRETATION O...

JED RUBENFELD

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Farm

Richard Benson

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of...

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From: Broxbourne, GB

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The Story of My Life...

Helen Keller

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life...

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From: Ludlow, GB

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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

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The Flirt

Kathleen Tessaro

Hughie Venables-Smythe discovers the world of the professional flirt. A...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Featured authors

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Khaled Hosseini

Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1970 Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran. In 1973 Hosseini's family returned to...

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Keith Waterhouse

Keith Waterhouse was born in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He did two years of national service in the Royal Air Force.

His credits, many with lifelong friend and collaborator Willis Hall,...

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Rosie Thomas

Janey King, née Morris was born on 1947 in Denbigh, Wales, and also grew up in North Wales. She read English at Oxford, and after a spell in journalism and publishing began writing fiction after the...

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Featured book drops

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The Bluebell Inn

United Kingdom - Ashbourne

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Whether you want to enjoy a pint in a friendly, relaxing atmosphere or you want a full, sit-down meal, come to The Bluebell Inn in Tissington. We offer a family friendly bar,...

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The Raven

United Kingdom - Hope Street

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Here at The Raven we smoke our own ribs, chicken and meats low and slow for up to 12 hours over seasoned woodchips, which means that, along with some amazing burgers, dogs and...

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Green Parrot Casual Dining

United Kingdom - Berkshire

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Based in Queen Street, Maidenhead, we are an independently owned deli bar and coffee shop specializing in freshly baked cakes, sandwiches, soups and light lunches. On a Saturday we...

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Featured book shops

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Readings Pty Limited

Australia - Carlton

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Readings is an independent retailer of books, music and film, with five shops operating in Melbourne at Carlton, Hawthorn, Malvern, St Kilda and the State Library of Victoria.

We...

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Eye of Horus Metaphysical

United States - Minneapolis

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Eye of Horus began as a dream of Thraicie Hawkner (pictured at left). Before becoming an entrepreneur, she spent over a decade working for a giant corporation. Until she was laid...

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Burlington by the Book

United States - Burlington

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Burlington By the Book is an independent book seller located in southeast Iowa. A place where you can still find a wide selection of paper & ink titles in a world where...

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Featured libraries

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Manchester Central Library

United Kingdom - Manchester

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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...

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The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

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OPENING TIMES:
9:30 am – 17.45 Monday - Saturday
Closed on Sundays

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Blackheath Library

United Kingdom - High Street

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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

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Buyers of Liza Minnelli memoir claim it was not signed by hand

Premium editions of Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! cost up to $250 but some say signatures are unnaturally identical Con...

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Sarah Wynn-Williams and Virginia Giuffre jointly win freedom to publish prize at British book awards

In a rare public appearance, Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams warned of ‘networks of powerful elites’ using wealth...

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‘She made Mondays something to look forward to’: readers pay tribute to Carol Rumens, Guardian’s Poem of the week columnist

Rumens, whose column ran for nearly 20 years and developed a loyal readership, died this week aged 81 Continue reading.....

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‘Being human helps’: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe’s translators?

A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet Con...

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Report shows banned non-fiction books doubled over last school year in US

New PEN America report analysed 3,743 unique titles removed from libraries and classrooms and found books about activism...

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JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over Israel’s ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’

Nobel laureate says he previously considered himself a supporter of Israel, but ‘the campaign of annihilation in Gaza ha...

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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model Conti...

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Carol Rumens, poet and the Guardian’s poem of the week columnist, dies aged 81

The British poet, who also wrote plays, fiction and published poetry in translation, analysed almost 1,000 poems for her...

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The Odyssey: new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s classical Greek epic released online

Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway...

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