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The British Library have launched a public version of its nineteenth century British Library Newspaper website. Here you have an enormouse wealth of material consisting of two million difitised pages of 19th century newspapers from 49 national and regional UK titles. The site has a lot of free-to-view content, but to see the rest and download full-text articles there is a charge. Hail the nearest braugham and head over to newspapers.bl.uk/

Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
Philosophy, aesthetics, literature, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art... Not for the faint hearted.

AskOxford: free online dictionary resources from oxford university press
search the compact oxford english dictionary online; get answers to questions on english, language, grammar, spelling, quotations, and usage; find out about oup dictionaries; improve your writing skills; try our word games, crosswords, and puzzles; win books in our prize draw; learn french, german, spanish, russian, greek, japanese, and italian.

Guardian.co.uk
Books, news and reviews, poetry, authors - Erudite reviews on the latest fiction and non-fiction, read first chapters of selected books, plus extracts from others. Another good research site.

Contact an Author - helps you find the author you need
This site helps you find authors available for talks, workshops, school visits, interviews, after-dinner speaking, world book day events and commissions. you can search for authors by name or by your requirements and locate local authors. database includes fiction and non-fiction writers, novelists, children's authors, biographers and poets.

Cops 'n Writers - mystery writers resource to police procedures and police culture
Cops 'n Writers is a mystery writer's consulting service for writers who want to incorporate police procedures and police culture into their writings. Based in Tucson, Arizona, John Cheek gives you the low-down on writing crime for the US crime scene.

Fetchbook - New & Used Books - find the lowest price
FetchBook.Info is completely independent, and does not contain any promotional material or ads. Every book price comparison is done in real time and scans 103 book stores. Using this service, you can find any book you want, see information about it and compare its total cost, including the shipping costs to your destination, to find the deal that's best for you. The results link you directly to the book page at the book store site, where you can easily order the book. In addition, you can find selected book reviews sites on the book resources page.

Fiction-Net - the ultimate book site - bringing you the best authors
Featured authors, Recommended sites, Author index, Author interviews. A lot about authors, really.

London Review of Books
As you might expect, this is the web site for the London Review of Books publication. And, also as you might expect, it reviews books. You can subscribe to the publication on line. An archive section is also included.

NewYorkology: a new york travel guide
All you wanted to know about the Big Apple, and a lot you maybe didn't. But all is revealed in the Insider's Guide at NewYorkology.

Notes in the Margin
Mary Daniels Brown of St. Louis, Missouri offers her notes and comments on books she has read - and she has read lots! Candid comment both good and not-so-good.

NovelGuide - free study guides, book notes & more...
The site modestly claims: “Novelguide.com is the premier free source for literary analysis on the web. We provide an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary Literature Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.”

SpikemaGazine.com
Spike Magazine dubs itself: “UK literary / cultural website of impeccable taste.” Gosh. Some lively interesting stuff here, including the “Splinters” page which is “designed to provide Spike readers with a daily dose of new sites, gossip, mini-reviews and whatever else won't fit into the rest of the site.”

The Barnes & Noble Review
Reading lists, reviews, forthcoming titles, author info & interviews, readers’ resources...

The CIA World Factbook
Facts and figures on many aspects of most countries of the world. Includes a host of information on geography, people, government, economy, communications, military and such like. A boon to non-fiction writers, but immensely useful for fiction writers too. You can download a free copy of the book but be warned: it's a whopping 48MB ZIP file which, when extracted, is HUGE!. You can also purchase a copy from your local bookshop.

The Times Literary Supplement
The web site for this famous weekly publication. You can subscribe to their E-mail newsletter and view a copy of the very first TLS edition of 1902. Features literary culture and book reviews. Detailed reviews from the world's finest book critics.

TheMysteryPlace.com
“The Home of America’s Leading Short-Fiction Mystery Magazines”. Not strictly research, but an interesting link to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

Self publishing company giving professional advice on how to get a book published with many years experience as non fiction publishers, childrens book publishers and can help publish poetry that touches the heart. They also offer print on demand to avoid the costs of long initial print runs.
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