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Featured member book shelves

Paracom
Fiction
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Sarah Morgan
Christmas Ever After (Puffin Island trilogy, Book 3)
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Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
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Kami Garcia
Beautiful Darkness (Book 2): 2/4 (Beautiful Creatures)
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Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
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Mark Watson
The Knot
Ibexpower
Gardening
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Isabelle Palmer
The House Gardener
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Isabelle Palmer
House Plants
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Featured library books

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All That I Am

Anna Funder

One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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A Father's Reve...

Kitty Neale

A mother must fight to protect all she holds dear… Thirteen years have...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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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

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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

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The Reading Group

Elizabeth Noble

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Journey to the Centr...

Jules Verne

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

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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

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The Shadow Of The Wi...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Recipe for Scandal

Debby Holt

Living with her partner, Tony, his parents and their precocious teenage...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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A Voyage For Madmen

Peter Nichols

The true story of the 1968 oceanic adventure of nine sailors who set off in...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Blue Zone

Andrew Gross

They were the perfect family. And he was the perfect family man. One day...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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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

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Chocolat

Joanne Harris

When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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A Grain of Wheat

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Featured authors

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Chuck Palahniuk

Written in stolen moments under truck chassis and on park benches to a soundtrack of The Downward Spiral and Pablo Honey, Fight Club came into existence. The adaptation of Fight Club was a flop at the...

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Chris Abani

Christopher Abani (or Chris Abani) is a Nigerian author.He was a political prisoner in Nigeria at various times during 1985 and 1991. At times he was held in solitary confinement and he was held on...

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Adriana Trigiani

Adriana Trigiani is beloved by millions of readers around the world for 15 bestsellers, including the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker’s Wife; the Big Stone Gap series; Lucia, Lucia; Rococo; and the...

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Featured book drops

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The Raven

United Kingdom - Hope Street

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Here at The Raven we smoke our own ribs, chicken and meats low and slow for up to 12 hours over seasoned woodchips, which means that, along with some amazing burgers, dogs and...

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The Bell

United Kingdom - Welford Upon Avon

Book Drop

Deep in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside, The Bell Inn is an outstanding 17th century inn, complete with exposed beams, flagstone floors, oak furniture, open...

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Red Lion

United Kingdom - Newport

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The Red lion is located down a peaceful lane in the quiet hamlet of Great Chatwell. Set in beautiful countryside on the Staffordshire/Shropshire border this 17th century pub has...

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Featured book shops

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Inprint

United Kingdom - Stroud

Book Shop

Since 1980, Inprint has run a lively secondhand and out-of-print bookshop in Stroud, a small town in England.

Inprint's shop stock has always reflected our interest in the...

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Versandantiquariat Rainer Wölfel

Germany - Wörthsee

Book Shop

We stock a wide range of antiquarian literature from various fields.

Sie finden bei uns ein breites Spektrum an antiquarischer Literatur aus verschiedenen Sachgebieten.

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Blackwell's Bookshop

United Kingdom - Oxford

Book Shop

Blackwell's Bookshop stocks a wide range of academic books, university textbooks and specialist books.

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Featured libraries

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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

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Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

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See website for hours of opening.

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The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

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

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Cracking sleaze, Gromit: Wallace’s long-suffering canine companion to tell all in memoir

After ‘bottling everything up for a long time’ the faithful pet, who has remained silent for many years, will spill the ...

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Wombles set to return after 27 years as IP deal opens door to comeback

Litter-picking creatures emerge from underground for global franchise targeting nostalgic adults and gen Alpha Continue ...

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Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year

Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is the first novel from the Nobel laureate since 2021’s Klara and the Sun and draws on ...

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‘What an adventure Broadway will be!’ Paddington musical packs suitcase for New York

Hugely successful London show to open in the US, with performances beginning in March Continue reading.........

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From tents to trebles: Edinburgh book festival to set author’s words to music

Works of Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie and more to feature in celebration of literature’s interplay with other art forms, sa...

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From Bloomsbury to Whitehall: new play reimagines life of John Maynard Keynes

The Standard of Living by James Graham traces economist’s influence on British politics and culture Continue reading.......

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Photographer Don McCullin to focus on Vietnam for his final book

Exclusive: The work will feature some of the photographer’s most powerful images from his 70-year career Continue readin...

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‘Straight out of Trumpland’: LGBTQ+ members fight for Pride after Essex library ban

Rochford LGBTQ+ community say Reform council’s ban on flying pride flags or holding events states they’re not welcome Co...

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Women’s prize: Virginia Evans wins for fiction and Lyse Doucet takes award for nonfiction

Evans’s The Correspondent and the BBC journalist’s ‘people’s history’ of modern Afghanistan, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, ...

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