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Featured library books

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

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

Nadia Knows Best

Jill Mansell

Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Crimson Rooms

Katharine McMahon

Evelyn is struggling to come to terms with the loss of her brother in the...

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From: Maidenhead, 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

The Flirt

Kathleen Tessaro

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

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From: Birmingham, GB

Obsession

Debra Webb

The first novel in Debra Webb's internationally bestselling FACES OF...

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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

Pamela

Samuel Richardson

Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone in the world, is pursued by her dead...

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From: Aylesbury, GB

Claudine Married

Colette

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

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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

The Garden of Burnin...

Corban Addison

In Zambia, American lawyer Zoe Fleming and policeman Joseph Kabuta have...

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From: Birmingham, GB

The Prince Of Mist

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

1943. As war sweeps across Europe, Max Carver's father moves his...

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From: Bourne, GB

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

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

Featured authors

John Lescroart

John Lescroart (born January 14, 1948) is an American author best known for two series of legal and crime thriller novels featuring the characters Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky.Lescroart was born in...

Rumi

Profile in Farsi: مولویMawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی), also known as Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balḫī (Persian: محمد بلخى) or Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi,...

Frank McCourt

Francis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and author. McCourt was born in Brooklyn; however, his family returned to their native Ireland in 1934.He received the Pulitzer Prize...

Featured book drops

Bisley House

United Kingdom - Stroud

Book Drop

We’re a newly renovated friendly pub restaurant in Middle Street, Stroud. We serve fine wines, real ales, fantastic food and speciality tea and coffee.

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 White Hart

United Kingdom - The White Hart, Main Road, Fyfield, Abingdon, Oxon,

Book Drop

Kay and Mark Chandler welcome you to the White Hart, their beautiful country pub and restaurant, set in the picturesque village of Fyfield, just 7 miles from the city of Oxford....

Featured book shops

Antiquariat Bücheretage

Germany - Bonn

Book Shop

Antiquarian booksellers

Armchair Books

United Kingdom - Edinburgh

Book Shop

Armchair Books is a second hand and antiquarian book shop in Edinburgh's West Port.

Hill of Content Bookshop

Australia - Melbourne

Book Shop

Hill of Content is a rare treat. The narrow shopfront of the multi-storey bookstore hides a myriad of promise within. The friendly staff have arranged hundreds of titles across...

Featured libraries

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...

Library of Birmingham

United Kingdom - Birmingham

Library

See website for hours of opening.

Featured book news

Salman Rushdie says a Palestinian state formed today would be ‘Taliban-like’

Novelist, who teaches at New York University, says he finds it strange that progressive students currently ‘kind of sup...

Labour MP Dawn Butler withdraws from Hay festival in sponsorship row

Butler is among several writers refusing to appear at the literary festival over sponsor Baillie Gifford’s alleged invol...

Poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins book of the year at the NSW premier’s literary awards

Her first novel in eight years, She is the Earth, also claims the Indigenous writers category, netting writer a combined...

How Bridgerton’s real life Lady Whistledown scandalised 18th-century society

The subversive work of Eliza Haywood, the feminist forerunner of the TV show’s gossip columnist, is about to be republis...

‘One hell of a storm is coming’: Canadian graphic novel about Indigenous identity sparks outrage

Book prompts conflict over claims of Métis identity in eastern Canada where group doesn’t have a homeland or deep histor...

‘Loud-mouthed bully’: CS Lewis satirised Oxford peer in secret poems

Exclusive: Chronicles of Narnia author detested HC Wyld so intensely he wrote mocking verse in a copy of his own book Co...

Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown

Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magi...

Caleb Azumah Nelson wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for Small Worlds

Judges describe second novel set between south-east London and Ghana as ‘symphonic’ and ‘viscerally moving’ Continue rea...

Johann Hari apologises after falsely attributing Ozempic claim to food critic Jay Rayner

Publisher Bloomsbury has promised to correct the error made in Hari’s new book Magic Pill Continue reading.........