General

• www.wakefield.gov.uk/Libraries - Information on Wakefield Council’s Library Service.
• www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/Libraries/Reading/ - Lots of information about reading.
• www.fantasticfiction.co.uk – Bibliographies of over 10,000 authors.
• www.allreaders.com – Search for book information through options such as plot, theme and character setting option to find the read you want. Also has reviews and links to other useful information.
• www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books - With A - Z search for authors.

Book Shops and Publishers

• www.amazon.co.uk – Comprehensive online bookselling site.
• www.blackwell.co.uk – Online book shop with the latest releases and Editor’s recommendations.
• www.abebooks.co.uk – An online portal that enables you to search the catalogues of hundreds of small bookshops in the UK and US. An excellent site for searching for obscure and out of print books.
• www.thebookseller.com – The site provides daily news, author interviews, bestseller charts and a searchable archive.
• www.harpercollins.co.uk
• www.penguin.co.uk
• www.bloomsbury.com
• www.randomhouse.co.uk

E-Books

• www.gutenberg.org – Collection of more than 10,00 free e-books.
• www.Bartleby.com - Free e-books online.
• www.bibliomania.com – Online literature with more than 2,000 classic texts plus study guides.
• ota.ahds.ac.uk – The Oxford Text Archive.
• www.luminarium.org - An anthology of English books and writing from Medieval and Renaissance England

Book Awards

• www.themanbookerprize.com
• www.orangeprize.co.uk

Disability Sites

• www.listening-books.org.uk – This is a charity that provides audio books in cassette form via the post to people who have difficulties reading in the usual way.
• www.rnib.org.uk  - Royal National Institute of the blind site which give information on aids, useful links, access technology etc.