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Featured library books

Welcome To Rosie Hop...

Jenny Colgan

Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Shopaholic Abroad

Sophie Kinsella

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is great. She has a job on morning TV, her bank...

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From: Birmingham, GB

White Oleander

Janet Fitch

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl...

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From: Ludlow, GB

The Reading Group

Elizabeth Noble

Five women meet for their first reading group, little realising this...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Salt Road

Jane Johnson

Jane Johnson's The Salt Road is a magical historical adventure which...

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From: Ludlow, GB

What Are You Like - ...

Anne Enright

When Maria turns twenty. she falls in love She is in the wrong town and...

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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

The Infinite Plan

Isabel Allende

Charles Reeves is a preacher, mystic and formulator of the Infinite Plan -...

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From: Aylesbury, 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

The Amateur Marriage

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage is not so much a novel as a really...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Paula

Isabel Allende

When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Storyteller

Mario Vargas Llosa

At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Seamstress

Maria Duenas

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

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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 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

Featured authors

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the genre of science-fiction. He is best known for his novels "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "Twenty Thousand Leagues...

Octavia E. Butler

http://octaviabutler.org/Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In...

Marie Maxwell

So, everyone asks……how did I start writing? What was it that set me on the road? It's difficult to say, but I'm sure it was because I spent huge chunks of my formative years abroad because...

Featured book drops

The Fox

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

The Fox sits happily and handily in the market place of Chipping Norton, one of the gateway's to the beautiful Cotswolds. They've been serving fine ale and food since the...

Crown & Cushion Hotel

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

Book Drop

There's more to The Crown & Cushion than at a first glance. As well as boasting 40 en-suite bedrooms, There's a cosy Traditional Bar,Bistro Restaurant, Comfy Lounge,...

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...

Featured book shops

Armchair Books

United Kingdom - Edinburgh

Book Shop

Armchair Books is a second hand and antiquarian book shop in Edinburgh's West Port.

American Bookstore

Poland - Kraków

Book Shop

The bookstore specializes in several areas, such as contemporary and classic world literature, history, politics, psychology, sociology, film, theater, photography, art,...

Magma - Covent Garden

United Kingdom - London

Book Shop

We sell a variety of items - including books

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...

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...

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

Harris calls Biden’s decision to seek re-election ‘recklessness’ in new memoir

In 107 Days, the former vice-president breaks on certain points from her typically loyal public stanceUS politics live –...

‘It was a fair shot’: Anna Wintour belatedly gives her verdict on The Devil Wears Prada

The formidable Vogue boss said Meryl Streep’s subtle performance as a fictional fashion editor ‘had a lot of wit’ – addi...

From woodcuts to Colin Firth: how Jane Austen’s stories have been pictured

Bath museum shows how author’s illustrators and adapters have portrayed her characters through history Continue reading....

Donald Trump accuses Australian author Scott Stuart’s children’s book of ‘radical gender ideology’

US president says fifth-grade student forced to read aloud My Shadow Is Pink, a book about a boy who loves ‘things not f...

Cod digits and striped equids: new book celebrates media staple ‘the second mention’

Married monographers have collated sometimes absurd word choices through which journalists avoid repetition Continue rea...

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones

Metroteka aims to encourage people to read more in country that lost majority of libraries in second world war Continue ...

Drawings reveal Victorian proposal for London’s own Grand Central station

Perceval Parsons’ plans for station put on sale to mark 200th anniversary of first public passenger railway Continue rea...

AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit

Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots Continue r...

Scotland’s national library in U-turn over exhibiting gender-critical book

Institution decides to readmit The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht to its centenary exhibition after outcry Continue reading...