Buying Books
www.amazon.com
Synonymous with book buying on the web, browsing this site is a pleasure only equalled by receiving the parcel in the post. Among the quick picks on offer when EL logged on were two autobiographies: Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom and Colin Powell's My American Journey, an autobiography. Book categories range from arts and photography to business, entertainment, literature and fiction.
Booker prize
www.bookerprize.co.uk
One of the most prestigious and contentious of prizes, the Booker Prize website has reviews, extracts and audio clips from the selected shortlist for 2001 and Peter Carey's winner. Set up in 1968 after an approach from publisher Tom Maschler to Booker Brothers, which then had an "author's division" that published Agatha Christie. But did you know that Booker plc is now part of the Iceland Group plc? www.i2kcom/~svderark/lexicon/
Harry Potter
muggle.html
"Muggles" are non-magical people in the parlance of the Potter wizarding world. They are mostly oblivious to the society of magical people that exists alongside their own. This may be because the Ministry of Magic works very hard to keep them in the dark. Fans will enjoy the Harry Potter lexicon on this website. Non-Harry Potter fans may need it to decode children's chat.
Doris Lessing
http://lessing.redmood.com/
"I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic." So says Doris Lessing on this website, which includes a link to the recent controversial interview in the Observer, where she famously declared: "I have nothing in common with feminists. They never seem to think that one might enjoy men."
Inspector Morse
www.mysterylist.com/morse.htm
"Morse was never a man to hunt through a haystack for a needle. Much rather he'd seek to intensify (as he saw it) the magnetic field of his mind and trust that the missing needle would suddenly appear under his nose." Can't place the quotation? Forgotten the plot of any of Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse mysteries? Then this website is for you. It contains a summary of the plots of all of the Morse novels.
