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Featured library books

All He Ever Wanted

Anita Shreve

A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He...

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From: Birmingham, 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

Breaking Dawn: Twili...

Stephenie Meyer

Twilight tempted the imagination . . . New Moon made readers thirsty for...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When Nigeria is shaken by a political coup Kambilli's father, whose...

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From: Bourne, GB

Claudine Married

Colette

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

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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

Giving Up the Ghost

Hilary Mantel

Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Reading Group

Elizabeth Noble

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

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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

The Knight

Gene Wolfe

THE WIZARD KNIGHT springs from the myths, legends and literature of times...

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From: Birmingham, GB

A Mother's Gift

Maggie Hope

Taken in by her grandparents to ease the pressure on her poverty-stricken...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Midnight's Chil...

Salman Rushdie

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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

Dear John

Nicholas Sparks

From America's most beloved storyteller comes an unforgettable tale...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Book Of Salt

Monique Truong

The Book of Salt serves up a wholly original take on Paris in the 1930s...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he...

Victoria Hislop

Victoria Hislop read English at Oxford, and worked in publishing, PR and as a journalist before becoming a novelist. She is married with two children.Her first novel, The Island, held the number one...

Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the names Reagan...

Featured book drops

The Coffee Tree

United Kingdom - Aylesbury

Book Drop

We provide top quality home-made food of the highest standard, using local suppliers and strive to use fresh ingredients in all our products, none of which are pre-packed days in...

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...

IBEX Industrial Brushes

United Kingdom - Malt Mill Lane

Book Drop

Welcome to IBEX Industrial Brushes "Book Drop". We have a large array of books waiting to travel all over the world, sitting in our trade counter, eager to move on!

Featured book shops

Nathaniel's Books

Saint Lucia - Castries City

Book Shop

Book seller

Buchs Boghandel

Denmark - Juelsminde

Book Shop

We are a classical bookstore in a modern society. The emphasis is on books, stationery and office supplies, but we have many other products in the store.

Vi er en klassisk...

The Old Town Bookshop

United Kingdom - Rosewell

Book Shop

Established in 1978, the Old Town Bookshop buys and sells a range of antiquarian and second hand books, old prints and antique maps. We also stock a small selection of original...

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...

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

‘Difficult love’: Spanish publisher reprints groundbreaking book of Lorca’s homoerotic sonnets

Federico García Lorca’s poems were printed anonymously in 1983 after being hidden away by family for 50 years Continue r...

Women’s prize for fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep

Nonfiction award goes to Rachel Clarke’s ‘beautiful and compassionate’ The Story of a Heart, about a lifesaving transpla...

Children’s reading enjoyment falls to lowest recorded level in UK

Annual survey of young people’s reading habits which began two decades ago shows its lowest-ever result, most pronounced...

‘A-posh-trophe’ joke wins London school pupils a posh trophy

Year 5 children’s punctuation pun scoops top prize in the Beano’s Britain’s Funniest Class competition Continue reading....

Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon

Former footballer Ally McCoist also among guests as festival seeks to broaden its appeal Continue reading.........

Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86

Writer used his experience reporting on De Gaulle’s France to plot his thriller, and continued to draw on real-world res...

Tom Felton expresses support for JK Rowling despite controversy over her views on trans issues

The actor who played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films says he is ‘incredibly grateful’ to Rowling, and that her bo...

Trump’s ‘triumph’: Newt Gringrich selective spins in new book praising president

Former House speaker and Clinton antagonist sidesteps his own dubious ethics and gushes over Donald Trump Continue readi...

Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews

Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day reader...