Shotsmag
Crime and mystery online magazine with articles, reviews and interviews.

A Life of a Recluse
A hypertext fictional story, celebrating words in collaboration with digital images, sound and music.

ABC Tales
Read and write stories. Discussion forum about stories and poems.

African Books Collective
Promotes and distributes indigenous African Writing around the world.

Alliance of Literary Societies
Useful index of UK literary societies, with links to related literature sites.

Artangel
The website for Artangel, an organisation that supports art projects in various media.

Ask Chris
Essex libraries recommendations for reading groups.

Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Aims to promote the study, teaching and writing of Scottish literature, and to further the study of the languages of Scotland. Links to Scottish writers.

BBC Books
Portal for all book-related material on the BBC site.

Bloodaxe Books
Major poetry publisher site with reviews, interviews and features.

BookCrossing
A global book club that encourages members to leave books they have read for others to find and enjoy.

Bookgroup.info
Dedicated to reading groups, this site is based on the reviews of a Brighton reading group.

Bookwormsearch
BookwormSearch is a topic-oriented search engine for a database related to books, writing and literature.

Born Magazine
Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media.

Branching Out
Network for libraries; contemporary literature and reader development.

British and Irish Authors on the Web
Mitsuharu Matsuoka's catalogue of sites on British and Irish authors.

Comma Press
The website of Comma Press specialises in publishing short stories.

Complete Review
Reviews of books that have recently been published, re-published, are in the news, or archives.

Derbyshire Reading Groups
Useful information about setting up and running reading groups.

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Largest literature festival in the UK.

Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy and horror genres.

Granta
Home to Granta magazine (with contents and biographies online) and the Granta imprint.

HarperCollins UK
Impressive site promoting HarperCollins Publishers with interviews, extracts, competitions and a large database of author information.

Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts
Major literary festival.

The Independent - Books section
Includes news, reviews and author profiles.

Learning Place
Hosts an annual Online Literature Festival.

LibraryThing
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily.

Lion and the Unicorn Bookshop
Children's literature bookshop with reviews and online magazine.

Lit-Net
For readers, writers, librarians, etc, based in the West Midlands region, with useful online resources.

London Review of Books
Online version with archive.

Meet the Author
A site that allows readers to see authors describing and introducing their books in their own words.

Mslexia
Magazine 'for women who write'.

Murder Squad
A group of crime authors.

My Book Exchange
Exchange books that you are not using for books that you want with other members.

My Home Library
Downloadable book plates, book reviews and links.

National Association of Literature Development (NALD)
National Association of Literature Development creative reading initiative showcases reading development work throughout the Yorkshire region.

National Centre for Language and Literacy
If you want to arrange an author or illustrator visit in the UK search here. Supports teachers, parents and governors in a wide range of ways.

National Library for the Blind
National Library for the Blind web site with news, a writer in residence, fiction café, and the library catalogue.

National Literacy Trust
Charity to promote literacy with online resources.

Northamptonshire County Council Learning Resources for Education
Includes an A-Z of links to children's book author sites.

Opening the Book Ltd
Creates resources for readers and provides training and consultancy services to all professionals who work with readers and reading groups.

Orange Word Audio Archive
A selection of author interviews from their annual Writers' season.

Over My Dead Body
Mystery magazine. Book reviews, movie reviews, author profiles and interviews. Older files are in the morgue.

Penguin UK
Well designed publisher site with extensive author information.

Penguin Readers Group
Penguin publisher's reading group site. Requires free registration.

PN Review
Carcanet's long-running critical journal. It offers a mix of news, views, comment and poetry by some of the best poets writing today.

Pulp.net
Pulp Net is an online magazine of new short fiction and fiction reviews.

Quick Reads
Every year on World Book Day there is a new range of Quick Reads books. There are educational materials to accompany the books on the website.

The Reader
The official website for The Reader magazine which promotes good literature, literary events, and a community outreach programme.

Reading Routes
Routes can follow a geographical line or they can be linked by ideas or subject matter or simply by a word in the title.

Reader's Paradise
Reviews of new fiction with interviews.

Reading Africa
Reading Africa is a nationwide initiative by SABDET to raise awareness in the United Kingdom of African writing and publishing and to promote reading of African books.

Reading Agency
The Reading Agency looks at new ways of working with libraries to inspire a reading nation. I

Reading is Fundamental
Emphasizing the fun element of reading for both children and parents.

Reading Matters
Good list of reviews of books for older children.

Reads for Kids
A New Zealand site with an annual selection of books for children.

Route Online
Site combining music and Flash-based e-texts.

SALIDAA
SALIDAA is an online digital archive containing a substantial body of work produced by South Asian artists from 1947 to the present.

Scottish Book Trust
Independent organisation promoting books and reading in Scotland.

Scottish Writers
Information on Scottish writers.

Seven Stories
Seven Stories is where our rich heritage of British children's books is collected, explored and celebrated.

Shotsmag
Crime and mystery online magazine with articles, reviews and interviews.

Skrev Press
Skrev Press promotes shorter fiction.

Six Book Challenge
The Six Book Challenge is targeted at adults who want to improve their literacy skills.

Society for Storytelling
Open organisation for anyone with an interest in storytelling.

Spike Magazine
Good web-based source of fiction reviews and interviews.

Stories from the Web
Author interviews, booklists, and the chance for children to write reviews and stories.

Story Bank
Story Bank allows browsers to download audio mp3s of stories written and performed by a plethora of contemporary authors.

Story Circus
Stories for children. Parents can print our stories in colour as storybooks, and in black and white for colouring in.

Studies in Travel Writing
International, refereed journal on the more scholarly side of travel writing; annual.

Tangled Web UK
Large site devoted to crime, mystery and fantastic fiction.

Their Reading Futures
Their Reading Futures is a website for those working in libraries with young readers.

Times Literary Supplement
Subscription information and an archive for subscribers.

www.turn2page1.com
A Reading Zone website for young adult readers with book reviews by teenagers, for teenagers.

UK Children's Book Directory
Directory of links.

Unusual Suspects
Six crime novelists.

Unwritten
A collection of possible books. Short interviews are recorded with people about a book they dream of writing or making.

Vintage Books Reading Group Guides
Vintage Books reading group guides include a description of each book, questions, discussion topics, and author biographies.

Virago
Virago publishers site with author and book information. Includes reading guides and a reader's group.

Webwords
This website provides audio extracts of some 500 audio books, allowing visually impaired people.

Welsh Books Council
Promotion of publishing and reading in Wales, and support to writers. They also have a sister site which lists Welsh books and books of Welsh interest: http://www.gwales.com.

Welsh Literature
Useful history of Welsh literature, from the dawn to time to the present day.

W.H. Smith
W.H. Smith online. Features a useful search facility.

Which Book Net
Fun book selection site from OpenLibraries Ltd.

World Book Day
UNESCO-designated annual celebration of books and reading.

Wordpool
With book reviews, book lists, author profile, information for children's writers, news and an e-mail discussion group.

Words Without Borders
Promotes international communication through translation of the world's best writing.

Writersartists.net
An international group of writers and artists represent their work here.

Young Book Trust
The website for Book Trust, the national organisation for the promotion of books and reading.

Young Cultural Creators
A project that opens up young people’s reading and inspires their creativity.

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