See our Literature Useful Website page for links Literary Events, Prizes, Local Literature and Author/Publisher websites.
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GENERAL READING
BBC Arts - Books
All about authors, learning to write and literary fun and games.
BBC Radio 4 Arts and Drama
Catch up on Radio 4's drama and readings from the last seven days. Many links e.g. to Listen Again, Listen Live, Book of the Week, Book at Bedtime and Open Book.
People's Network - Read
Links to online book review and discussion website Reader 2 Reader and find a local book club websites as well as reading links for everyone and for children and young people.
Quick Reads
Fast-paced, bite-sized books by bestselling writers for emergent readers.
RaW
RaW (Reading and Writing) is the BBC's literacy campaign. Lots of entertaining content, help and ideas to help you enjoy reading. All Bournemouth libraries are local RaW Centres - pick up a free magazine with a money-off voucher for one of the Quick Reads books.
Vital Link
Bringing libraries and adult literacy together through reading for pleasure. Includes First Choice Books database of good reads for new readers and Read On - Reading Campaign as well as lots of information and many links to other reading organisations such as Book Trust , The National Literacy Trust, and The Reading Agency.
More Reading links from The Literary Trust
There are around half a million reading and literacy-related sites on the Internet. This is a good list of some of them organised into categories.
CHILDREN'S READING
Family Reading
Lists children's general reading resources as well as magazines, book lists and poetry websites for children.
British Library - Childen's Literature
List of websites including general children's literature links, author and illustrator, digital projects and special collections.
E-BOOKS
British Library - Electronic Text Sites
Links to a selection of freely available internet sites which are known to contain digitised (and in many cases searchable) texts. Another page on the website provides links to selected Digital Facsimile Sites.
Internet Public Library - Online Texts
List of links to sources of electronic books.
Google Book Search
Fascinating way to search for books. Results can be full text (read or download the whole book), limited preview, snippet of just bibliographic details.
Poetry Archive
Poets reading their own work. Find poets by name or poems by name, theme or form. Also has a childrens' Poetry Archive and good list of links to other poetry sites.
Project Gutenburg
Search the Catalogue for free, out-of-copyright e-Books in many languages including books and audio-books by authors from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. Many older texts such as The Iliad and Beowulf. Some have to be downloaded or un-zipped.
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