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Ibexpower
Gardening
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Isabelle Palmer
The House Gardener
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Isabelle Palmer
House Plants
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Fiction
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Ian Caldwell
The Rule Of Four
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Nicolas Freeling
Gun Before Butter
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William Trevor
The Silence in the Garden
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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
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Featured library books

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Village by the Sea

Anita Desai

An award-winning story about a family's survival in a small fishing...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Knight

Gene Wolfe

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

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Jam and Jeopardy

Doris Davidson

89-year-old spinster, Janet Stouter, takes pleasure in raking up scandals,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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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

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I, Alex Cross

James Patterson

A Cross family member is murdered, and the case catapults Alex into a...

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From: Ludlow, GB

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The Fifth Woman: Kur...

Henning Mankell

Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Violet Hour

Richard Montanari

He's waited twenty years. He'll wait no longer. A gripping...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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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

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Giving Up the Ghost

Hilary Mantel

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

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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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Fault Line

Robert Goddard

It could be your average suicide. A man found dead in his car, engine...

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From: Bourne, GB

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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

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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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Ambition

Immodesty Blaize

Money. Fame. Love. Who says you can't have it all Being the daughter...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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The Return

Victoria Hislop

THE RETURN debuted at number two in the Sunday Times hardback fiction...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

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Featured authors

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James Patterson

Offical US SiteOffical UK SiteOffical James Patterson Young Adult SiteOffical Site for James Patterson's Middle School SeriesThe subject of a Time magazine feature called, "The Man Who...

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Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's best known and most successful science fiction writers. He is the only Canadian (and one of only 7 writers in the world) to have won all three of the top...

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Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt (born 23 December 1963) is an American writer who received critical acclaim for her two novels, The Secret History (1992) and The Little Friend (2002). Tartt was the 2003 winner of the WH...

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Featured book drops

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The Tea Set

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

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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...

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The Coffee Tree

United Kingdom - Aylesbury

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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...

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Ownies Bar and Bistro

United Kingdom - Joymount

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If you're looking for a traditional restaurant with a modern twist, look no further than Ownies Bar & Bistro. Whether it's a locally-sourced special or a quiet drink...

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Featured book shops

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Paagman

Netherlands - Den Haag

Book Shop

We stock new titles, special editions, classics and countless books for inspiration.

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Forbidden Planet International - Leicester

United Kingdom - Leicester

Book Shop

17 shops bringing you the finest in comics, graphic novels and cult merchandise

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Oxford Book Shop

Canada - London

Book Shop

2016 marks our sixty-eighth year of operation.
We continue to pride ourselves on our personalized customer service.
Special orders for books, office supplies, maps and charts
Our...

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Featured libraries

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The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

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Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

See website for hours of opening.

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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...

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Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones

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Drawings reveal Victorian proposal for London’s own Grand Central station

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AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit

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Scotland’s national library in U-turn over exhibiting gender-critical book

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Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’

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Yiyun Li and Barbara Demick among writers longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize

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Wuthering Heights: first trailer for Emerald Fennell’s erotic adaptation

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Canada: Alberta pauses book ban after schools remove Handmaid’s Tale, 1984 and other classics

The province says it will review its controversial policy after outcry over removing beloved novels from classrooms Cont...

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