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Featured library books

The Saffron Kitchen

Yasmin Crowther

On an autumn day in London, the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam...

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From: Ludlow, 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

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

Claudine Married

Colette

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Shadow Of The Wi...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of...

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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

Who Killed Palomino ...

Mario Vargas Llosa

This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air...

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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 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

Dear John

Nicholas Sparks

From America's most beloved storyteller comes an unforgettable tale...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Spitfire Girls

Carol Gould

Top-class pilots were crucial to the survival of Great Britain during the...

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From: Birmingham, GB

Working Wonders

Jenny Colgan

Laughs, love, office life.And a little touch of magic …From the bestselling...

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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: Birmingham, GB

Alex Cross, Run

James Patterson

Detective Alex Cross is hunting three killers, but is someone hunting...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Salt Road

Jane Johnson

Jane Johnson's The Salt Road is a magical historical adventure which...

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From: Ludlow, GB

Featured authors

David Guterson

David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist.He is best known as the author of the novel Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner...

Alessandro Baricco

Alessandro Baricco is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages, and include Lands of Glass, Silk, Ocean Sea, City, and Without...

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include The Green House, about a...

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 Blue Pig Pub

United Kingdom - Hinckley

Book Drop

The Blue Pig is a charming pub, run by couple Fran and Steve, where we offer fine ale, lager, food, and wine. Fran prepares the food from her own recipes. Why not come and enjoy...

Green Parrot Casual Dining

United Kingdom - Berkshire

Book Drop

Based in Queen Street, Maidenhead, we are an independently owned deli bar and coffee shop specializing in freshly baked cakes, sandwiches, soups and light lunches. On a Saturday we...

Featured book shops

Cărtureşti Iaşi

Romania - Iași

Book Shop

Cărtureşti is a concept store that functions as a library as well as a cultural agent, and is actively involved in the revitalization of artistic life in Romania.

Cărtureşti este...

Wivenhoe Bookshop

United Kingdom - Colchester

Book Shop

Stokes Books

Ireland - Dublin

Book Shop

With a stock of over 10,000 volumes, on a huge variety of subjects, priced between €5 and €5,000, the shop offers something for every pocket. The major specialisation of Stokes...

Featured libraries

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

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The British Library

United Kingdom - Euston Road

Library

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

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

US actor battles UK council over restoration of ‘Downton Shabby’, his ancestral home

Hopwood DePree has been leading efforts to renovate Grade II* listed Hopwood Hall in Middleton since 2017 Continue readi...

Six great reads: rebels in Nazi Germany, how creativity works and Europe’s biggest pornography conference

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days Continue re...

Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith

Exclusive: Governing council ‘retrospectively’ decides the Les Carlyon literary award should go only to first-time autho...

Gareth Evans scolds ‘bone-headed’ Meanjin publisher as imminent closure sparks protest

Exclusive: Critics want Melbourne University Publishing to transfer ownership of Meanjin rather than dissolve it. But CE...

Wainwright prize for nature writing awarded to memoir about raising a hare during lockdown

Debut author Chloe Dalton’s ‘dream-like’ book Raising Hare follows the writer from London to the countryside Continue re...

Harris calls Biden’s decision to seek re-election ‘recklessness’ in new memoir

In 107 Days, the former vice-president breaks on certain points from her typically loyal public stance Continue reading....

‘It was a fair shot’: Anna Wintour belatedly gives her verdict on The Devil Wears Prada

The formidable Vogue boss said Meryl Streep’s subtle performance as a fictional fashion editor ‘had a lot of wit’ – addi...

From woodcuts to Colin Firth: how Jane Austen’s stories have been pictured

Bath museum shows how author’s illustrators and adapters have portrayed her characters through history Continue reading....

Donald Trump accuses Australian author Scott Stuart’s children’s book of ‘radical gender ideology’

US president says fifth-grade student forced to read aloud My Shadow Is Pink, a book about a boy who loves ‘things not f...