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Article about how to get information about your book/s out to the most people. The new ways - use digital services. Useful for us to get students to review books - make it for a wider audience than just their teacher.

Blog post discussing this literature "For the most part, the authors fully realized that these books should be classified as fiction, and they liked the term "informational fiction" because it acknowledged all the research they'd done and that the books were mostly faithful to the facts. But the Library of Congress labelled these books "juvenile literature" (the term they use for nonfiction). And in most cases, publishers and reviewers called the books narrative nonfiction."

How to create Twitter style book reviews

The Book Review has occasionally in the past, asked young authors about their biggest influences. For their 125th anniversary, they put the question to a new generation. A simple challenge was put to a group of writers under 40: Name the writer or writers who have most influenced your work and explain how. In the past, many of the US-based "authors contacted were just beginning their careers and they later became some of the most widely read and respected artists of their generation." As part of their 125th-anniversary celebration, the same question to writers of today. They are: Megha Majumdar, Tommy Orange, Alyssa Cole, Emma Cline, Yaa Gyasi, Ottessa Moshfegh, Gabriel Bump

By Pledger Consulting.  Book reviews created by Australians for Australians. Search by keyword, author, title.  Includes similar titles

By Pledger Consulting.  Book reviews created by Australians for Australians. Search by keyword, author, title.  Includes similar titles

15 of the books suggested as good reads for men. They include both new and classic novels.

"A post about how to take a student's interests and passions in genres of movies, TV, music, etc. and use them to find the gateway book to foster an appreciation"

This article challenges the status quo which reveals that most schools are studying very few books by female authors and that there is an under representation by the media of reviewing books written by female authors. Aviva Tuffield argues that this gives women and men a distorted view of our society and contributes to unconscious bias again genuine equality.

This is a large, curated selection of images, books, audio and film. You can choose to browse the content either by medium ( images, books, film, audio),by time ( from pre-16th t 20th century), by tag or by source. For each of the material you find you will be provided with directions to help you download and save it.

An interesting list of novel and short stories