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Featured library books

Journey to the Centr...

Jules Verne

Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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

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

A Killing Kindness: ...

Reginald Hill

When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out...

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From: Dunstable, 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

Kiss of Evil

Richard Montanari

He's watching. He's waiting. He'll stop at nothing. The...

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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

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

The Kashmir Shawl

Rosie Thomas

Newlyweds Nerys and Evan Ellis leave the Welsh valleys behind to become...

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From: Dunstable, GB

Working Wonders

Jenny Colgan

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

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 Saffron Kitchen

Yasmin Crowther

On an autumn day in London, the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam...

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From: Ludlow, GB

The Devil That Dance...

Aminatta Forna

An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Inés of My Soul

Isabel Allende

The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of...

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From: Aylesbury, 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

Featured authors

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris. From 1957 to 1961 he was a film critic in Buenos Aires for the...

María Dueñas

María Dueñas es Doctora en Filología Inglesa y profesora titular de la Universidad de Murcia. Nacida en Puertollano (Ciudad Real) en 1964; casada, dos hijos, siete hermanos, un puñado grande de buenos...

Joseph Murphy

(Arabic: جوزيف ميرفي)Joseph Murphy was a Divine Science minister and author.Murphy was born in Ireland, the son of a private boy's school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic. He studied for...

Featured book drops

The Nags Head Hotel

United Kingdom - London Road

Book Drop

The Nags Head in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire is an AA 4 Star graded traditional 15th century country inn and restaurant situated along the valley of the River Misbourne in the...

The Old Mill Retreat Cafe

United Kingdom - Broxbourne

Book Drop

The Old Mill Retreat Cafe is located in beautiful surroundings and ideal for riverside dining, and is well blended into the scenic towpath/river. Inside is a cosy cafe with...

Cafe Cream

United Kingdom - Crown Walk

Book Drop

We offer a deliciously tempting menu of hot drinks, cold drinks, snacks and ice cream, all within the Bo-Jangles salon! Treat yourself to coffee, high quality ice cream, paninis,...

Featured book shops

Book Mouse

United States - Ottawa

Book Shop

Since 1993, the Book Mouse has been not only the community's bookstore, but so much more: a place to get together with friends, the home for Toddler Time with Nana Jan, a...

Book Man Book Woman

United States - Nashville

Book Shop

BookManBookWoman is an independent new and used bookstore in Nashville, Tennessee. Opened in 1995, BookManBookWoman is owned by two of Nashville’s best known book collectors, Larry...

Bibliofil.hr

Croatia - Zagreb

Book Shop

Internet-based bookstore, specializing in the sale of books with author's signatures, first editions, rare and out-of-print editions, old periodicals, autographs, and...

Featured libraries

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

See website for hours of opening.

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

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

Jeremy Thomas, British producer of The Last Emperor and Sexy Beast, dies aged 77

An outstanding figure in the UK film industry, Thomas was noted for collaborations with directors including Bernardo Ber...

Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2026: ‘profound’ novel based on Yolngu oral history wins $80,000

Judges praised A Piece of Red Cloth as a ‘landmark achievement in fiction’, with Kate Wild, Zana Fraillon and Rohan Howi...

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 ...