Booksellers
These pages are often great places to browse, even if you are not intending buying anything. You will find large amounts of book related information, including reviews and details of recent and forthcoming publications that you might like to borrow from your local library!
Creative writing
- Aesthetica Magazine - articles on art, literature, film, music and theatre. As well as reviews and creative writing competitions.
Crime, detective and mystery
Horror
Literature
Poetry
- Bartleby Poetry Archive - excellent poetry search engine giving access to 1,000s of poems online.
- BUBL English Poetry Links - excellent list of links to pages about the great poets.
- PMPoetry: Patrick Martin's Poetry Resource - lots information for poets and poetry lovers.
- Poetry Book Society - a unique organisation with the aim of keeping people all over the world up to date with new English language poetry. They recommend the best available new poetry books every quarter.
- The Poetry Library - the national library for poetry based at the South Bank Centre in London - good for answering really difficult poetry enquiries!
- Poetry Portal - guide to the Internet poetry world.
- Poetry Society - the society for poets and poetry lovers giving details of events, awards and developments in the poetry world.
Prizes
Romance
Science fiction/ fantasy
Other sources of information
- BookBrowser - impressive collection of fiction reading lists covering a wide range of genres.
- Open Book (Radio 4) - spotlighting new fiction and non-fiction, the best paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces.
- The On-Line Books Page - a directory of books which can be freely read on the Internet.
- Overbooked - great site providing an enormous amount of information about literary and genre fiction.
- whichbook.net - a completely new way of choosing what to read.