NEWLiNC reading links
National Year of Reading 2008
http://www.yearofreading.org.uk
Everything starts with reading and the website is a great source of inspiration. October is the month to share the joy of books and stories by word of mouth, so look out for lots of storytelling and live literature events.
Fantastic Fiction
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk
This website can help you to find out which titles are in a series and gives details of over 10,000 authors.
Listening books
www.listening-books.org.uk
Postal audio book library service to people who cannot access printed books.
Encompassculture
www.encompassculture.com
This is a worldwide reading group - the place to find your next book and talk with other readers. It has full details of over 6,000 books for all age ranges and lots of useful features.
Lovelibraries
www.lovelibraries.co.uk
Love libraries is a campaign to get everyone excited about what public libraries can do for readers and how we can make them better.
Lancaster Library won the 2007 award for their project "Get it loud in libraries" which features live bands playing exclusive gigs in the library.
Lovereading
www.lovereading.co.uk
Thousands of books are listed, with reviews, free downloadable extracts and an e mail recommendation service.
Reader2Reader
www.reader2reader.net/
This is the readers' page of the People's Network, a site for readers to share opinions about books - what you loved, what you hated and what you got stuck on. If you want to contribute just dive in. If you prefer to look around to see what other people have said, your perfect book might just be a click away.
Amazon
www.amazon.co.uk
A very user friendly site with easy access to many features, including reviews of recent books, helpful links, a full list of book award winners and their books, and a good search facility.
Arcadia Books
www.arcadiabooks.co.uk
The definitive website for British and European Black and Asian writers.
Whichbook.net
www.whichbook.net
An innovative site designed to help readers to find a good read. A great site for anyone looking for something different but doesn't know where to start.
You reading group
www.you-reading-group.co.uk
This site is designed for reading group members, it includes book reviews, book of the month, and lists suggested questions for discussion groups.
Bloomsbury
www.bloomsbury.com
A blend of literary magazine and bookselling information.
BBC Radio 4's book club
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/bookclub/
Radio 4's book club site includes details of all books and writers featured in the radio programmes, transcripts of interviews, poetry feature and a quiz section.
Costa Coffee Awards
www.costabookawards.com/awards/index.aspx
Costa Coffee have taken over the Whitbread awards and the winner of best book of 2007 is A.L. Kennedy for "Day", the story of a former RAF prisoner-of-war returning to Germany to confront his demons
Orange Prize
www.orangeprize.co.uk
The winner has been announced as "The road home" by Rose Tremain. Now in its thirteenth year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in international women’s writing
ManBooker prize
www.themanbookerprize.com
The longlist has been reduced to a shortlist of six titles and the winner will be announced on October 14th.
Penguin
www.penguin.co.uk
Lots of information about new titles and a section for reading groups.
Librarything
www.librarything.com
List and arrange all your favourite books and connect with like-minded readers.
The links on these pages have been selected and reviewed by staff from Nottinghamshire Libraries, Archives and Information Service.
Nottinghamshire County Council is not responsible for the content of any external websites and does not endorse any product or organisation contained therein.
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