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Featured library books

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 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

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

Kill Alex Cross

James Patterson

The President's children have been kidnapped. The water supply for...

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From: Bourne, GB

The Riddle of the Sa...

Erskine Childers

One of the first and still one of the finest spy stories ever written,...

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From: Broxbourne, 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 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

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

Aftermath

Peter Robinson

Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is...

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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

Conversation in the ...

Mario Vargas Llosa

Under the rule of the unseen military dictator General Ordia, suspicion,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Longbourn

Jo Baker

'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,'...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Dead of Winter

Lisa Appignanesi

This is a chilling and psychological thriller is about why some men love...

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From: Birmingham, 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

Touch & Go

Lisa Gardner

Compulsive, chilling and utterly unputdownable, this is award-winning...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Helen Keller

Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from...

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...

Bruno Bettelheim

Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American child psychologist and writer. He gained an international reputation for his views on autism and for his claimed success in treating emotionally...

Featured book drops

Akamba Heritage & Garden Centre

United Kingdom - Solihull

Book Drop

At Akamba we offer all services ranging from garden design, event hire, plant hire, or a simple chat on the telephone to answer a query. We are also Solihull’s Premier African...

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...

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....

Featured book shops

Boekhandel De Lelie

Netherlands - Amsterdam

Book Shop

Çağlayan Bookshop (Kitabevi) - Istanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Bookstore

Turkey - None

Book Shop

We stock thousands of books on several subject areas

Cavalier House Books

United States - Denham Springs

Book Shop

Cavalier House Books is an independently owned general interest bookstore and book fair provider in Denham Springs, LA. We offer a variety of new and used titles as well as other...

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

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...

Featured book news

John Keats’s love letters returned to owner after being stolen in the 1980s

Romantic poet’s letters to Fanny Brawne, dated between 1819 and 1820, had been stolen from a Long Island estate Continue...

Houdini’s reappearing act: David Haig’s new play lays bare the magician’s dispute with Conan Doyle

An interest in spiritualism drew the escapologist and the Sherlock Holmes author together but, as actor-playwright Haig’...

‘Deliciously dark’: how Freida McFadden’s twisty thrillers gripped millions of readers

The author, who recently revealed her real name to be Sara Cohen, began writing to escape from her work as a medic, and ...

‘The Moon and The Zoo’: Simon Armitage poem celebrates 200 years of ZSL

Zoological Society of London commissions poet laureate for animation to mark its 200th anniversary Continue reading........

‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong

Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations Continue readin...

Winners and judges out of pocket as £20,000 writing awards appear to have closed

The Plaza Prizes offered 10 awards in 2025 but some judges say they were not paid, while a number of winners hit back ov...

Pooh in pencil: sketches for original Winnie-the-Pooh book shared for first time

E H Shepard drawings go on display for book’s centenary, showing how he brought AA Milne’s character to life Continue re...

RFK Jr once cut penis off ‘road-killed raccoon’ in New York, new book reveals

Health secretary in a diary entry said his kids were in the car as he cut off animal’s genitals in 2001 to ‘study them l...

More than 100 writers quit French publisher in protest against rightwing owner Vincent Bolloré

Tycoon’s media empire accused of pushing far-right ideas, as writers say: ‘We refuse to be hostages in ideological war’E...