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Featured library books

A Life Less Ordinary

John Hodge

A Life Less Ordinary tells the story of a hapless young man who is fired...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Land Of Green Gi...

Winifred Holtby

Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Breakfast with the N...

Rumer Godden

For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to...

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From: Maidenhead, GB

The Crimson Petal An...

Michel Faber

NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Gillian...

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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

Journey to the Centr...

Jules Verne

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

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

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

In a Far Country

Linda Holeman

Pree Fincastle, daughter of impoverished British missionaries in India, is...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Coastliners

Joanne Harris

On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Road to the Dales: T...

Gervase Phinn

A unique look into the childhood experiences of Gervase Phinn in Road to...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Gem Squash Tokoloshe

Rachel Zadok

Faith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Girl With a Pearl Ea...

Tracy Chevalier

A brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Darling Strumpet

Gillian Bagwell

From her beginnings as a humble oyster seller, Nell Gwynn’s dazzling rise...

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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

Featured authors

Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (孫子; pinyin: Sūnzǐ) is a honorific title bestowed upon Sūn Wu (孫武 c. 544-496 BC), the author of The Art of War (孫子兵法), an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy. Sun...

Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi is a British novelist. She graduated from Cambridge University in 2006, has written a total of seven books (lucky seven!) and lives in Prague with an ever-increasing number of teapots.

Colin Falconer

“I was 18 years old, I’d just left school and got a job in London, working in an insurance company. I was working inside - in an office! My mother thought that was like being CEO of Shell Oil.“I was...

Featured book drops

The Generous Briton

United Kingdom - Lincoln

Book Drop

Steeped in history and set on the High Street in the centre of the pretty little village of Brant Broughton The Generous Briton has been a public house for over 200 years. The...

Pier House Bistro

United Kingdom - Boathouse

Book Drop

Pier House Bistro is a special place to meet, greet and eat! We are situated in picturesque Beaumaris, with stunning views of the Menai Strait and the Snowdonia Mountain range. We...

Charlton Arms Hotel

United Kingdom - Lower Broad Street

Book Drop

Real Ales, Fantastic Food and a Warm Welcome await you at The Charlton. Independently owned and family run, we offer something for everyone. Whether returning from a muddy walk...

Featured book shops

Ad Astra Books and Coffee House

United States - Salina

Book Shop

Mon 7:00 - 22:00
Tue 7:00 - 22:00
Wed 7:00 - 22:00
Thu 7:00 - 22:00
Fri 7:00 - 22:00
Sat 8:00 - 22:00
Sun Closed

Located in Downtown Salina, Ad Astra offers a large...

The Dartmoor Bookshop

United Kingdom - Newton Abbot

Book Shop

Adelaide Books & Coffee

United States - Ocean Park

Book Shop

Open: Tuesday - Saturday 7am - 4pm

Adelaide’s is a coffee shop and bookstore located in wonderful Ocean Park, WA. We offer a full espresso menu, as well as freshly baked pastries,...

Featured libraries

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...

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

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

Featured book news

Ana Maria Gonçalves becomes first Black woman in Brazil’s literary academy

Author of Um defeito de cor wins seat in 128-year-old institution long dominated by white men Continue reading.........

Publication of The Salt Path author’s new book is delayed amid scandal

Penguin said release date of On Winter Hill would be changed in order to ‘support the author’ after allegations that Ray...

Booklovers form human chain to move Melbourne's oldest bookshop one item at a time – video

Around 300 people gathered outside Melbourne's oldest bookshop, Hill of Content, to help it move to its new location jus...

Hundreds form human chain to help Melbourne’s oldest bookshop relocate after more than a century

Literature lovers braved wintry weather to pass thousands of books from Hill of Content’s original Bourke Street premise...

The Salt Path author defends memoir against fabrication allegations

Raynor Winn describes enduring ‘hardest days’ and publishes clinic letters saying her husband, Moth, has been treated fo...

Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter prize for writing on migration and faith

Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as “a balm, a shelter, and an inspi...

The mushroom murders resemble an Agatha Christie plot – and film studios, publishers and streaming platforms know it

Erin Patterson’s three murders and homemade beef wellington laced with death caps have created an international media ma...

AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators

UK-based GlobeScribe is charging $100 per book, per language for use of its services, but translators say that nuanced w...

‘Like an academic’: private papers reveal John le Carré’s attention to detail

Exclusive: Oxford’s Bodleian libraries to put archive items on display for first time, celebrating spy author’s ‘tradecr...