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Featured library books

The Flirt

Kathleen Tessaro

Hughie Venables-Smythe discovers the world of the professional flirt. A...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Meaning of Night

Michael Cox

A cold October night, 1854. In a dark passageway, an innocent man is...

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From: Birmingham, GB

How Hard Can It Be?

Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson had a dream... A world where the nonsensical made sense,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Unfortunates

Laurie Graham

What hope is there for Poppy Minkel? She has kinky hair,out sticking ears,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Now You See Her

James Patterson

To save her own life, Nina Bloom vanished. Now, to rescue an innocent man,...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Blood Rush

Helen Black

The UK is gripped by the threat of gang violence - the media is building on...

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From: Bourne, GB

Chocolat

Joanne Harris

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

Kaspar Prince of Cat...

Michael Morpurgo

A heart-warming, colour-illustrated novel about Kaspar the Savoy cat,...

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From: Dunstable, GB

The Devil's Mus...

Jane Rusbridge

It is 1958 and the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on...

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From: Aylesbury, 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

Never Go Back

Lee Child

‘It's said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

The Story of My Life...

Helen Keller

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life...

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From: Ludlow, GB

Conqueror (Conqueror...

Conn Iggulden

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-07-16 Pages: 560 Language: English Publisher:...

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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

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A novel built out of a series of dramatic scenes that illuminate eternal...

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From: Dunstable, GB

Featured authors

Kate Jacobs

Kate Jacobs is the New York Times-bestselling author of Comfort Food, Knit Two, and The Friday Night Knitting Club, which has over 1 million copies in print.Kate grew up near Vancouver, British...

Dan Burstein

Dan Burstein is the world's leading expert on the fiction of Dan Brown. Burstein is also the founder of Millennium Technology Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in...

Edward Rutherfurd

Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California,...

Featured book drops

The Chateaux Impney Hotel

United Kingdom - Droitwich

Book Drop

Located in the Worcestershire countryside, this unique venue offers a stylish setting for weddings and events, extensive conferencing and exhibition facilities, and the perfect...

The Ship Inn

United Kingdom - Stonehaven

Book Drop

The Ship Inn, overlooking the harbour, is an excellent choice for bed and breakfast accommodation in Stonehaven. Built in 1771, this historical and award winning hotel has so much...

Caffe Nero Chipping Norton

United Kingdom - Chipping Norton

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Our story goes back around 20 years, to our founder Gerry Ford. Armed with a passion for coffee, he had a vision to create traditional Italian cafés across Europe; places that...

Featured book shops

Cammeray Bookshop

Australia - Cammeray

Book Shop

Bookshop

Worcester Books

United Kingdom - Worcester

Book Shop

Worcester Books stock a fine selection of quality out of print, hard to find, rare and used books. Situated in the heart of Worcester City Centre upstairs in The Gallery (formerly Market Hall).

The Munich Readery

Germany - München

Book Shop

English secondhand bookshop

Featured libraries

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...

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

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See website for hours of opening.

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

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In his memoir, the former Qantas chief executive denies using the lounge as a tool to influence politiciansFollow our Au...

‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster

Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convi...

Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of ‘playful, funny, cheeky’ side

Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic Contin...

Raymond Briggs’s library goes on sale at his local Oxfam shop

Books belonging to the beloved creator of The Snowman and When the Wind Blows were donated by his estate after his death...

Children’s literature festival criticised after requests that comments on diversity be deleted

John McLay, one of the founders of the festival in Bath, contacted writers who had noted a lack of diversity in the prog...

Charles Gaines, whose book Pumping Iron helped to popularize bodybuilding, dies at 84

1974 book led to making of seminal documentary and introduced Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world Continue reading.........

Salman Rushdie attacker faces US terrorism trial

Hadi Matar, already serving 25 years for attempted murder, denies federal charges that could bring a life sentence Conti...

Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work Continue reading...

Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey

The billionaire says the AI-generated film will stay true to Homer’s original, after repeatedly criticising Christopher ...