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Great Reads
Book Prizes |
| www.costabookawards.com/ |
Costa Book Awards.There are six awards in total - five category awards (Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry, Children's) and, from these, one overall winner - the Costa Book of the Year. |
| www.themanbookerprize.com/ |
The Man Booker Prize represents the very best of contemporary fiction, and is one of the world's most famous literary prizes, |
Choosing your next book |
| www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/ |
Arts, Books. All about authors, learning to write and literary fun and games. Includes tv & radio listings |
| www.chicklit.co.uk/ |
Chicklit is the online women's magazine that celebrates 21st century woman's contemporary fiction and lifestyle. |
| www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/ |
Fantastic Fiction is a mine of information on top authors, book prizes, series, and new and forthcoming books. It has bibliographies for over 7000 authors and information on over 150,000 books |
| www.firstchoicebooks.org.uk/ |
First Choice Books is a free online searchable database containing books that are appropriate for work with adult literacy learners |
| www.scifan.com/ |
Scifan lists books and links for the science fiction fan. You can search by writer, book or series. |
| www.whichbook.net/ |
Which Book enables readers to choose their next read. It includes a range of recent, contemporary titles. |
Derby and Derbyshire |
| www.scarthinbooks.com/ |
Scarthin Books, Cromford, Books for sale on many local subjects. Buy and sell antiquarian books. Secondhand sheet music. |
| www.flyingdonkeys.co.uk/ |
The Flying Donkeys storytelling club celebrates the traditional art of storytelling, meets monthly in Derby and brings many British and international storytellers to the city |
| www.readingdetectives.org/derbyshire/ |
The Reading Detectives, managed by The Reading Agency, are on a mission to find undiscovered and forgotten writers writing about the local area and the people who live there. |
Derby user groups |
| www.mlug.org.uk |
Mickleover Library User Group connecting and supporting our community library |
General |
| www.bartleby.com/ |
Bartleby allows unlimited access to books and information on the web free of charge. You can search reference, verse and non-fiction books. |
| www.bibliomania.com/ |
Bibliomania allows you to search the texts of reference books, dictionaries, quotations, classic non-fiction, biographies and religious texts. |
| www.booktrust.org.uk |
Booktrust is an independent national charity which encourages people of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy reading |
| www.britishliterature.com/ |
English literature site for students and teachers. Strong on classics and Victorians. Searchable for author, country, era, medium, genre. |
| www.readingforlife.org.uk/ |
Reading for Life promotes the benefits of reading at all stages of life. It aims to increase awareness of the many values of reading for children, families and adult learners alike. |
| www.contemporarywriters.com/ |
The British Council database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers |
| www.thecwa.co.uk/ |
The Crime Writers Association, with details of all their awards. They also support writing and readers groups |
| liem.org.uk/index.asp?ID=160 |
The Inspire Project from Libraries and Information: East Midlands is a national access and referral scheme. Any member of a public library can access materials held in Higher Education and Further Education and Further Education libraries |
| literaturenetwork.org/ |
The Literature Network maintains information resources for the literature community, organises events, workshops and literature projects for the East Midlands region |
| www.readingagency.org.uk/ |
The Reading Agency believe that reading can transform people’s lives. The more you read, the more you know. The more you read, the more you imagine. The more you read, the better you understand other people |
| www.literatureeastmidlands.co.uk |
This site gives listings for writing groups, events, news, information and an A - Z of published writers resident in the region |
Online catalogues |
| www.bl.uk |
British Library provides reading room, bibliographic, document supply and information services, as well as exhibitions, publications and events. |
| www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/barbicansongindex/ |
Barbican Song Index. This is an index to sheet music anthologies of popular, jazz and folk songs, songs from musicals and films, classical songs and opera arias. All information in the index is drawn from the Barbican Music Library collections |
| www.cecilia-uk.org |
Cecilia is a project to map the music resource of the UK and Ireland. It is working towards an on-line guide to music collections in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and Ireland |
| www.copac.ac.uk/ |
Copac is a union catalogue providing free access to the merged online catalogues of 24 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland plus the British Library and National Library of Scotland. |
| www.bl.uk/gabriel/ |
European National Libraries. Gabriel acts as a gateway to the holdings and treasures of 41 libraries. |
| www.findit.org.uk/ |
'Inspire' from Libraries and Information: East Midlands has included a guide to library collections throughout England |
| www.suncat.ac.uk/ |
Serials Union Catalogue is a free tool to locate print and electronic journals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, proceedings and annual reports held in the UK. |
| librarycatalogue.rnib.org.uk/ |
The Royal National Institute of the Blind catalogue gives you access to over 170,000 items available for loan and/or sale for visually impaired people |
| www.worldcat.org/ |
WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. |
Poetry |
| www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason/ |
How to enjoy poems for what they are rather than what they mean and advice to help you enjoy poetry and try your hand at writing poems yourself. |
| www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do |
Poetry archive is an ambitious collection of contemporary and historic recordings of poets reading their own work. New and historic recordings of
poets plus a range of background information and educational material text and pictures. |
| www.poetrybooks.co.uk |
Poetry Book Society offers information from the complete beginner to the connoisseur. Includes a section of "Reading Tips" to promote discussions. |
| www.poetrylibrary.org.uk |
Poetry Library answers all kinds of questions from across the UK and from all over the world on all aspects of poetry and poetry-related activities. |
Reading groups |
| readers.penguin.co.uk/ |
Penguin reading group website with advice on running a reading group, author interviews, discussion of cult and classic books and a readers' noticeboard |
| www.haybooks.com/ |
Hay books is Britain's best-known name in old and out-of-print books |
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