BBC: Arts: Books
Join the BBC Book Club - read about the newly published books and the prize contenders, author profiles, the message board, find a local literature event and much more.

African Books Collective
Gives readers their online catalogue, highlights and new title information. This collective is owned by African publishers which "seeks to strengthen indigenous African publishing through collective action and to increase the visibility and accessibility of the wealth of African scholarship and culture".

Books for Academics
This site gives information on new academic books and has links to academic publishers sites.

Early Printed Books Projects
A historical books project from the University of Oxford which encompasses early printed books from outside the Bodleian Library.

Canongate Books
Canongate the Scottish Publisher, has a site which allows readers to browse through general and specialist lists, which include Crime, Audio Books and Classics

Internet Bookshop
The online bookshop of W.H. Smith, with book browsing capabilities, featured books, author information, charts and extracts to read.

Reading Group Choices
Selections for lively book discussions the central resource for book groups

Reading Rants
Out of the ordinary teen booklist!

Science Books.net
This site focuses the readers attention on subjects within the physical sciences area. It, helpfully also has a small range of electronic journals and a section of links to related sites.

Piatkus Books
A publishers site, this gives you competitions to enter, new titles, author of the month and categories of books to explore.