We’re opening 1st September

We’re opening 1st September



We’re launching officially on the 1st September, 2009. We’re still in the process of sorting out the navigation, adding new content, building news links etc.

Websites

Websites

Useful websites

Use your library

Use your library

Library Campaign

Book Shops

Book Shops

Details of Independent Books shops

Book Clubs

Book Clubs

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Reviews

Reviews

Links to our fiction reviews

Fiction
Going Home by Doris Lessing  | [More]

It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to Rhodesia, the country where she grew up. By then in her thirties, she had already achieved the status of restricted... [More]

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Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov Black Snow  | [More]

Black Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an autobiographical episode, with Bulgakov renamed as the book’s... [More]

My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey  | [More]

My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey is a strange, multi-layered journey through a man’s past, his artistic inspiration and his products, both illusory and real. Christopher Chubb is Australian and a budding... [More]

The Gathering by Anne Enright  | [More]

Anne Enright’s The Gathering deserves every ounce of praise it has received, and perhaps a bit more. It’s a family history of the Hegartys, told by Veronica after the death of her brother, Liam. So,... [More]

Non-fiction
Going Home by Doris Lessing  | [More]

It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to Rhodesia, the country where she grew up. By then in her thirties, she had already achieved the status of restricted... [More]

mikhail-bulgakov-black-snow
Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov Black Snow  | [More]

Black Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an autobiographical episode, with Bulgakov renamed as the book’s... [More]

My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey  | [More]

My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey is a strange, multi-layered journey through a man’s past, his artistic inspiration and his products, both illusory and real. Christopher Chubb is Australian and a budding... [More]

Poetry
The Knight and the Green Man  | [More]

A Different look at the Mid English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Introduction The usual interpretation of the poem is seeing in it a test for chivalry for one of King Arthur’s most prominent... [More]

News
Marilynne Robinson Orange Prize Winner 2009
Orange Prize winner: Marilynne Robinson's Home

Marilynne Robinson Orange Prize Winner 2009 with her novel Home  | [More]

The author Marilynne Robinson’s novel Home was the winner of this year’s prize. Marilynne Robinson was presented with the award by Fi Glover, a BBC presenter, at London’s Royal Festival... [More]

Features
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Author Mark Billingham's website

Mark Billingham's website. Mark Billingham is a well know UK crime writer.  | [More]

If you are into crime fiction you need to join the Billingham Talk Zone. Mark Billingham’s website is an excellent example of how an author could set up a website.  For anyone interested in... [More]

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Project Gutenberg: Free ebooks

Smart Dog Reading The Newspaper  | [More]

You can freely download books from Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Kafka, Tolstoy, Jane Austin, Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo and thousands more from Project Gutenberg. ... [More]

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Generate Your Own Stories

Generators of names, characteristics, plots for writers, comic writers and all creative types.  | [More]

  If you want to play around with ideas then site, Seventh Sanctum is for you.  All this site does is generate names, good and evil, locations, technologies, dieties, types of government, magic spells... [More]

Interview With Leslie Banks, Author of the Vampire Huntress Series  | [More]

New York Times bestselling author, L.A. Banks has penned over 35 novels and 12 novellas in a wide range of genres and is the recipient of the 2008 Essence Magazine Storyteller of the Year Award, as well... [More]

Interview With Historical Novelist Dianne Ascroft  | [More]

Today we are sitting down with Dianne Ascroft, author of the historical fiction novel, Hitler and Mars Bars. Dianne has been dashing around the internet on a Virtual Book Tour promoting her debut novel... [More]

Literary Fiction
Going Home by Doris Lessing  | [More]

It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to Rhodesia, the country where she grew up. By then in her thirties, she had already achieved the status of restricted... [More]

mikhail-bulgakov-black-snow
Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov Black Snow  | [More]

Black Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an autobiographical episode, with Bulgakov renamed as the book’s... [More]