Reader's guide to the Internet

Booksellers

These pages are often great places to browse. You will find reviews and details of recent and forthcoming publications that you might like to borrow from your local library.

• Amazon Bookstore
• Blackwell's
• WH Smith
• Waterstones

Crime, detective and mystery writing

• Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain - includes a good, if limited, links page with several author and publisher sites.
• Over My Dead Body! - an online mystery magazine.
• Mystery Writers of America.

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - the complete texts of Shakespeare's works on the internet.

Horror writing

• Classic horror short stories - largest collection of classic horror stories on the Web.
• Fantastic fiction - compilation of searchable bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors.
• Horror Writers Association - includes recommended reading lists plus links to other related sites.

Poetry

• Bartleby Poetry Archive - excellent poetry search engine giving access to 1,000s of poems online.
• 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.
• 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.
• UK Poetry Library - post your poetry for others to read, and read the work of poets from all over the world.

Prize-winning books

• The Man Booker Prize
• The Orange Prize for Fiction
• ITV3 Crime Thriller Dagger Awards
• Galaxy National Book Awards

Romance

• The Romance Reader - the place to start for any one interested in romantic fiction.
• Romance Writers of America - again plenty of information for the romance reader.

Science fiction/ fantasy

• Fantastic fiction - compilation of searchable bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors.
• The Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List
• The Recommended Fantasy Author List

Other sources of information

• Online Books 4 Free - a directory of books which can be freely read on the Internet.