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Amazon is the most famous online bookstore in the world - and now sells so much more than books.
The original US-based Amazon site.
BOL has been established for nearly as long as Amazon. This links to the British-based version.
A British-based online bookstore who, from March, are the new sponsors of our book charts.
The online version of the USA's best known bookshop chain.
Abebooks has developed an excellent reputation recently, especially when it comes to books that are usually hard to find.
This is the British-based version of Abebooks.
However, please don't forget your local bookshops. They need all the support they can get in this era of heavily discounted books and ever narrower profit margins. The above link lists all the local UK bookshops which have their own websites and which sell books online.
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| Personal Plugs |
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Co-founder Luise Finan's website promoting her highly successful Life Coaching business. This is Luise's first website, dedicated to finding shortcuts in the kitchen for busy people.
Hob Nob Anyone?, the magnificent unofficial site of Reading FC, and home of the first forum I ever joined.
www.theboogaloo.org/events.htm The Boogaloo, on Archway in Highgate, home of the finest music quiz in the world, every Tuesday night at 8.30pm. Can Horse With No Mane lose their perennial runners-up tag?
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| Authors' Websites |
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A number of published authors have already joined Book Group Online, and some of them have their own websites. (If you are a published authors and member with your own website that hasn't been included here, please email or PM me, and I will add it.)
Kate Allan has two novels coming out this year. The Lady Soldier, written with Michelle Styles under the name Jennifer Lindsay, comes out in May, while A Notorious Deception will be published under her own name late in the year.
Award-winning crime writer Stephen Booth is the author of One Last Breath, Black Dog, Dancing With The Virgins, Blood On The Tongue and Blind To The Bones. Rick Buda is a Chicago-based writer and the author of the detective thriller WolfPointe. His second novel is called Starshot.
Rowena Cherry is the author is "racy, wildly entertaining futuristic romance". Her novels include Forced Mate, Mating Net and Insufficient Mating Material. Tom Cox made his name as a rock journalist but now writes on many subjects for The Observer and The Sunday Times, among others. He is the author of Nice Jumper and Educating Peter. He is currently writing his first novel.
Liz Fielding's novel A Family Of His Own was recently nominated for the Romance Prize by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Her Wish-List Bridegroom was published in the UK in February, and A Wife On Paper in the USA in March.
Amanda Grange describes herself as an author of Regency, Gothic and historical romance. Her latest novel Darcy's Diary is an insight into the mind of one of literature's most famous characters.
Melinda Hammond is a writer of historical and romantic fiction, who has had seven novels published since 2002, her latest being Dance For A Diamond.
Anna Jacobs has had 32 novels published, the latest being Threepenny Dreams and High Street (Salem Street), which comes out in paperback in July. Anna writes historical sagas and romances and, although she now lives in Australia, is British-born and is mainly published in the UK.
www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/katemurphy Carrie Kabak is a British-born writer now living in Kansas City, Missouri. She began as a children's illustrator, but has now turned to writing. Her novel Cover The Butter is out in the UK and the USA in June.
Brian Keaney writes novels for young people. His latest book, Jacob’s Ladder, published in March 2005, is a dark fantasy about a boy who wakes up in a field unable to remember anything except his name.
Lynne Kelly's book A Skeptic's Guide To The Paranormal is about to be published in the USA, as well as her native Australia. Her novel Avenging Janie was published in 2003. Connie Siewert is another author of A Skeptic's Guide...To The Adventures Of Life. It is currently only published in the USA but you can buy it direct from her website at a healthy discount. Carole Matthews's hilarious and poignant novels about romance, relationships and motherhood regularly reside near the top of the book charts. The latest of her eight novels is With Or Without You, which was published in paperback in January.
Martha Roberts is a health journalist and author, who recently co-authored The Sugar Addicts' Diet with GMTV's Nikki Waterman.
www.special-educational-needs.co.uk Sandy Row is the mother of four autistic children, and her book Surviving The Special Needs System: How To Be A 'Velvet Bulldozer' can be ordered directly through her website. Ian Rowland is one of the world's most repected magicians and mentalists. His book The Full Facts Of Cold Reading is the definitive text on the subject, and can be ordered via his website. http://members.iinet.net.au/~woods/ Janet Woods writes romantic novels set mainly in her native Dorset, although she now lives in Western Australia. Her most recent novel, A Handful Of Ashes, was published in paperback in September of last year.
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| Websites We Like |
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What a superb idea. When you've read a book, leave it for someone else to read - whether on a park bench or under the third rock on the right after you pass the tree shaped like a broken umbrella.
This is another way of swapping books, started recently by member elainec100. The site works on swap credits – for each book you send to someone you get a swap credit and you use a swap credit to get a book from someone else. For the first three books you put on the site you get a free swap credit. Right now registration is free (there is also a chance to win a case of wine in a prize draw).
This is the website for THE magazine for readers and reading groups. It appears every two months and features extracts from new books, articles on authors (including interviews)and about the book trade, and also features readers' reviews.
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