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Crazy Horse and Cust...

Stephen E. Ambrose

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States...

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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

Road to the Dales: T...

Gervase Phinn

A unique look into the childhood experiences of Gervase Phinn in Road to...

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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

The Violet Hour

Richard Montanari

He's waited twenty years. He'll wait no longer. A gripping...

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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

Rescue

Anita Shreve

Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Settled Blood

Mari Hannah

When a young girl is found dead at the base of Hadrian’s Wall, it’s not...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Matters Of Life & De...

Bernard MacLaverty

A new book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Collaborator

Margaret Leroy

There's a sudden scatter of birds in the sky. I flinch. Little things...

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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

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

Lost Angel

Mandasue Heller

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

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From: Ludlow, 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

The Legacy

Katherine Webb

IN THE DEPTHS OF A HARSH WINTER, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF THEIR GRANDMOTHER,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell is an internationally known Swedish crime writer, children's author and playwright. He is best known for his literary character Kurt Wallander.Mankell splits his time between...

Chris Stewart

Christopher 'Chris' Stewart (born 1951), was the original drummer and a founding member of Genesis. He is now a farmer and an author. A classmate of Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel at...

Kate Jacobs

Kate Jacobs is the New York Times-bestselling author of Comfort Food, Knit Two, and The Friday Night Knitting Club, which has over 1 million copies in print.Kate grew up near Vancouver, British...

Featured book drops

Caffe Nero Chipping Norton

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

Our story goes back around 20 years, to our founder Gerry Ford. Armed with a passion for coffee, he had a vision to create traditional Italian cafés across Europe; places that...

Charlton Arms Hotel

United Kingdom - Lower Broad Street

Book Drop

Real Ales, Fantastic Food and a Warm Welcome await you at The Charlton. Independently owned and family run, we offer something for everyone. Whether returning from a muddy walk...

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...

Featured book shops

The Chepstow Bookshop

United Kingdom - Chepstow

Book Shop

We stock a wide range of books about the history, geography and wildlife of Chepstow and surrounding areas including the Wye Valley, the Welsh Marches and Forest of Dean.

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and Books, Too!

United States - Clarkston

Book Shop

and BOOKS, too! is a full-service used and new book and gift store located in downtown Clarkston, Washington. We have customer book trading accounts and wish lists. We do custom...

Antiquariat Bücheretage

Germany - Bonn

Book Shop

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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

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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

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

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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...