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Featured library books

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

A Certain Age

Tama Janowitz

When Florence Collins sets out for a weekend in the Hamptons, her life...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Sensible Life

Mary Wesley

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Wild Swans: Three Da...

Jung Chang

Forfatteren, der voksede op som medlem af den priviligerede elite i Maos...

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From: Ludlow, 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

Jam and Jeopardy

Doris Davidson

89-year-old spinster, Janet Stouter, takes pleasure in raking up scandals,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Out of the Mists

John Barrington

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

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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

The Seamstress

Maria Duenas

Maria Duenas's million copy best-selling tale of adventure, tragedy,...

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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

The Complete Mapp & ...

E.F. Benson

Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, 'as...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Riddle of the Sa...

Erskine Childers

One of the first and still one of the finest spy stories ever written,...

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From: Broxbourne, GB

Waiting for Wednesda...

Nicci French

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

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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

Pretty Little Things

Jilliane Hoffman

A terrifying new standalone psycholgical thriller from the bestselling...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Rachel Zadok

Rachel Zadok was born in Tel Aviv in 1972 and raised in Johannesburg. She has a National Diploma in Fine Arts. In 2001, she escaped a career in advertising to become a writer, which she describes as...

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The novel is one of...

Doris Davidson

Doris Davidson was born in Aberdeen, the daughter of a master butcher and country lass. Her idyllic childhood was shattered in 1934 with the death of her father, after which, in order to make ends...

Featured book drops

The Tea Set

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

The Tea Set in Chipping Norton and Broadway are two new tea rooms in the Cotswolds. The Tea Set offers afternoon tea, coffee and cake, lunches, pre-theatre dinners with bubbly and...

Bisley House

United Kingdom - Stroud

Book Drop

We’re a newly renovated friendly pub restaurant in Middle Street, Stroud. We serve fine wines, real ales, fantastic food and speciality tea and coffee.

Ownies Bar and Bistro

United Kingdom - Joymount

Book Drop

If you're looking for a traditional restaurant with a modern twist, look no further than Ownies Bar & Bistro. Whether it's a locally-sourced special or a quiet drink...

Featured book shops

Ripping Yarns

United Kingdom - London

Book Shop

We are a secondhand bookshop in North London specialising in collectable children's and illustrated books.

We have boys' and girls' school and adventure stories,...

Troels Boghandel

Denmark - Svendborg

Book Shop

Books of Aurora

United States - Aurora

Book Shop

Welcome to Books Of Aurora, Inc. Please search or browse our inventory of hard to find, out of print, used, and rare books. If you can't find what you like, please send an...

Featured libraries

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...

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...

Featured book news

Character actors: Australia’s children celebrate 80 years of Book Week

What began in 1945 as a way to promote reading has turned into a highlight of the school year, with children dressing up...

‘Deeply concerning’: reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40%, new study says

Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who read daily for pleasure has seen a considerable decline Continue rea...

Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading

Culture minister says government will propose ending the 25% rate, the highest in the world, in its budget bill Continue...

Australian novel attracts controversy over fictionalised depiction of gay codebreaker Alan Turing

Nick Croydon, the CEO of QBD Books, has faced criticism for his thriller The Turing Protocol Continue reading.........

Australian Book Week is here – and we’d love to see your children’s costumes

The annual event, which promotes literacy, is celebrating 80 years as part of Australian school life Continue reading......

Polari book prize cancelled after row over gender-critical novelist

Organisers of the award for LGBTQ+ writers have paused the prize this year, after controversy over the longlisting of Jo...

Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action

The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British...

Alex Salmond’s niece criticises Nicola Sturgeon over claims in memoir

Christina Hendry says book tarnishes uncle’s reputation and he would have defended himself if alive Continue reading.......

‘Skibidi’, ‘delulu’ and ‘tradwife’ among words added to Cambridge Dictionary

Lexicographers give nod to TikTok generation’s enduring influence on English language with latest additions Continue rea...