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White Oleander

Janet Fitch

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl...

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From: Ludlow, GB

The Girl Under the O...

Leah Fleming

Back in 1941 the Greek island of Crete is captured by the Germans and the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Anderby Wold

Winifred Holtby

Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic...

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From: Bourne, GB

A Sensible Life

Mary Wesley

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Breaking Point

John Macken

There is a killer loose on the London Underground. He kills without...

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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

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds...

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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

Season of Migration ...

Tayeb Salih

Paperback. Pub date: 2003 Pages: 169 Publisher: Penguin Books' Season...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Collaborator

Margaret Leroy

There's a sudden scatter of birds in the sky. I flinch. Little things...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Pretty Little Things

Jilliane Hoffman

A terrifying new standalone psycholgical thriller from the bestselling...

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From: Birmingham, GB

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

A Killing Kindness: ...

Reginald Hill

When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out...

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From: Dunstable, GB

The Storyteller

Mario Vargas Llosa

At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Claudine Married

Colette

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

Featured authors

Reginald Hill

Reginald Charles Hill is a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.After National Service...

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist.Dorothy L. Sayers is...

Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote...

Featured book drops

Constance Wallace

United Kingdom - Barnt Green

Book Drop

Constance Wallace offers an incredible range of authentic vintage china hire, cutlery and other accessories that can be conveniently sourced for weddings, christenings, birthday,...

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...

The Pheasant Inn

United Kingdom - Bedfordshire

Book Drop

The Pheasant Inn Dunstable is located on the outskirts of town, just at the foot of the Dunstable Downs. We are a traditional English pub which also offers great value B&B and...

Featured book shops

Fanø Boghandel

Denmark - Fanø

Book Shop

Gowrie Victoria Books & Resources

Australia - Carlton North

Book Shop

Gowrie Victoria is a not-for-profit organisation, established in 1939, committed to its purpose: For those who teach and care for children, (we) champion good early childhood...

Canon Beach Book Company

United States - Cannon Beach

Book Shop

Often cited asCBBC Exterior the perfect browser’s bookstore, Cannon Beach Book Company is a haven for discriminating readers of all ages. We specialize in good literature, both...

Featured libraries

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...

The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

Featured book news

Hillary Clinton leads tributes to Gloria Steinem: ‘Her activism was rooted in optimism’

Ex-secretary of state joins Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Roxane Gay and others in heralding groundbreaking feministGloria S...

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

Prolific author campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, pornography and the Vietnam and Gulf wa...

Quidditch, Muggles, magic: new Harry Potter trailer gives full look at TV show

HBO’s extended trailer reveals more details of JK Rowling’s wizarding world coming to screens this Christmas Continue re...

Britain is OK with public ownership, but only by foreign powers. Why?

Arthur Downing, author of Power and the People: A History of British Energy, says all-encompassing rapid transition will...

Emily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey from scratch

Wilson, whose 2017 English translation of Homer’s epic poem inspired Christopher Nolan’s box office hit, is revisiting i...

US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds

PEN America study details verbal and physical threats to librarians, funding cuts and proliferation of book bans Continu...

Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92

Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial ...

Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based project Continue readi...

‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Rotherham

Country star came to South Yorkshire town in 2007 for UK launch of the Imagination Library, her book donation scheme Con...