Here I lie in my deckchair, my toes gently nuzzling the warm sand as I bask in the shade of a palm tree. A scantily clad waitress, drinks tray in hand, approaches me with the magic words, "Wake up, you lazy blighter and do some work!" If you are planning your own escape from toil, here’s help with finding something to read on the beach.
South Island suggestions
If you like… has rightly kept its place on the Gateway for as long as I can remember. What it does is simple and useful. As you reach the end of a particularly good read, you may wish to keep the mood going by reading something similar. Pick a genre or pick an author: the website has some intelligent suggestions, including reads which are not quite the same but near enough to be a good progression.
They are particularly good on New Zealand books, which is not surprising. The whole thing is put together by the public library service in Christchurch, New Zealand. But most of the suggestions are far from parochial – this is a world of books with friendly experts to guide you.
(From the Gateway to websites, select "Books & literature". If you like… is under "Choosing books".)
Paper backs
The links to Newspapers’ book sections were added to the Gateway as an acknowledgment that newspapers’ online content in this area has improved enormously. Book news, reviews, features and gossip – everything you would expect to find in the printed book sections of the broadsheets can now be accessed online.
We have included links to four UK broadsheets, plus the Mail, the Washington Post, the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. If you can’t find something to read from that lot, you’d better just pop down to the library and do a bit of serious browsing!
(From the Gateway to websites, select "Books & literature". Newspapers’ book sections is under "Choosing books".)
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