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Call The Midwife: A ...

Jennifer Worth

A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of...

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From: Maidenhead, 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

Jumping The Queue

Mary Wesley

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

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From: Scunthorpe, GB

The Diplomat's ...

Pam Jenoff

How have I been lucky enough to come here, to be alive, when so many others...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Pirate's Da...

Margaret Cezair Thompson

THE PIRATE'S DAUGHTER by Margaret Cezair-Thompson is an unforgettable...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Girl Under the O...

Leah Fleming

Back in 1941 the Greek island of Crete is captured by the Germans and the...

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From: Birmingham, 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

The Complete Mapp & ...

E.F. Benson

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Friday Night Kni...

Kate Jacobs

Casting on ... It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their...

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From: Ludlow, GB

Girl With a Pearl Ea...

Tracy Chevalier

A brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the...

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From: Birmingham, 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

Murder at the Savoy ...

Maj Sjowall

The sixth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s...

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From: Dunstable, GB

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

Season of Migration ...

Tayeb Salih

Paperback. Pub date: 2003 Pages: 169 Publisher: Penguin Books' Season...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Claudine Married

Colette

Claudine Married: Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Dan Millman

Dan Millman is a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor.After an intensive, twenty-year spiritual quest, Dan's teaching found its form as...

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 - 24 January 1962) was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish parliament (the Grand...

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera is a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable...

Featured book drops

Urban Coffee

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Book Drop

You can find us in the middle of Harborne High St, on the corner of York St in the new ‘School Yard’ development. Serving a range of cakes, homemade sandwiches and salads and of...

The White Hart

United Kingdom - The White Hart, Main Road, Fyfield, Abingdon, Oxon,

Book Drop

Kay and Mark Chandler welcome you to the White Hart, their beautiful country pub and restaurant, set in the picturesque village of Fyfield, just 7 miles from the city of Oxford....

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

Koorong Books

Australia - Mount Lawley

Book Shop

Koorong is a 100% Australian owned, Christian, family company. Click here to see more about Koorong.

We have stores in most Australian capital cities and several country centers.

Books on the Common

United States - Ridgefield

Book Shop

Books on the Common was established in 1984 by Bob and Sally Silbernagel in a tiny 450 sq. ft. space. The original building, now torn down, was located where the present Talbots is...

Fredensborg Boghandel

Denmark - Fredensborg

Book Shop

Featured libraries

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

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

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...

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Iris Murdoch artworks from secret room go on display – including self-portrait

Second world war paintings and sketches show novelist ‘engaging with her world in a new light’ Continue reading.........

EJ Swift wins the 2026 Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction

The writer – who was also shortlisted in 2023 – has won the prize for her book When There Are Wolves Again, a speculativ...

Barack Obama launches podcast about books that ‘shaped his worldview’

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‘Can’t stop smiling!’ The wait is over for epic Game of Thrones prequel The Mad King

New play, which has been a decade in the works, opens at the Royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon after five...

Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ by publisher for memoir

Simon & Schuster still plans to publish book by Cambridge academic who resigned this week amid plagiarism claims Con...

‘Getting old is no fun’: Game of Thrones author George RR Martin speaks out about depression amid further book delays

A new blog post by the fantasy writer has outlined his recent difficulties, as fans continue to speculate on the elusive...

Omar Musa wins Miles Franklin literary award for ‘tour de force’ novel Fierceland

The novelist, poet and rapper won $60,000 for his novel about two siblings who reckon with the legacy of their late fath...

AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds

Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete Co...