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- 2008 National Year of Reading
- Best of British Book Club - Celebrating the best British authors - whatever the genre, dead or alive
- The British Authors Book Club - This is a book club for those of you who wish to discuss, perhaps even debate, the works of British authors. If they are British, share your thoughts; if they are not British, kindly refrain
- British Library Book Club - This is a group for anyone who wants to chat about research, books, illustration, sound & music, newspapers, and all things literary
- British Science Fiction Association - The BSFA was established in 1958 by a group of authors, publishers, booksellers and fans, to appreciate and encourage science fiction in every form. Today, the BSFA publishes three magazines (Matrix, which focuses on news, film and tv; Focus, which, uh, focuses on writing; and Vector, which focuses on criticism), presents the longest-running popular awards for science fiction in the UK, organises regular author events, and much more
- Give Me British Lit or Give Me Death! - This group is for anyone who can't imagine where they would be without Dickens, who can't imagine life as we know it without Shakespeare, and who know life couldn't go on without Austen. This group is for lovers of all British lit, like Blake, Milton, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Rossetti, Browning, Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans), Wilde, Hardy, Byron, Tennyson, Coleridge, Fielding, Shelley, Stevenson, the Bronte sisters, Conrad, Woolf, Hopkins, Joyce, Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson), Marvell, Wells, and Lawrence, just to name a few. If you don't know most of these and can't think of what they wrote, this group probably isn't for you. If you do, join us! And if you can/are brave enough to pick your favorite British writer or work, post it on the wall and let the whole world know
- Hot in the Pants for British Authors! - We all love our British Books!
- I love the Public Lending Right - Authors! Readers! Support PLR, support public libraries and keep borrowing books from public libraries
- Jane Austen Fan Club - For those of us who: Admire the women of Jane Austen's books for their modesty and courage. Find it impossible to see the movies too many times. Have fallen for the charm and simple sincerity of the men. Think Jane Austen is a love story genius. Quote the books and movies endlessly
- Jane Austen wrote more than just Pride and Prejudice - A group for all of the fans of her (slightly) less obsessed over works, such as Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Lady Susan
- The OFFICIAL British Library Readers Group - The British Library Readers Group is made up of academics, students, journalists, independent scholars, researchers and writers who use the British Library. We have come together to meet one another and to represent readers to the administration and trustees of the British Library. Our aim is to seek constructive solutions to issues that have an impact upon our working lives in the library
- PLR - Protect Public Lending Rights in the UK - PLR makes payments to writers and illustrators for their books borrowed from libraries in the UK. The British government plans to reduce the funds available for PLR next year. This will have an impact on writers - many of whom depend on PLR for part of their income. Writers support public libraries wholeheartedly for their invaluable contribution to the cultural life of the country, and the role they play in advancing education and literacy. The provision of books in public libraries cuts the royalties authors collect on books - but we don't mind! PLR makes a small contribution in lieu of lost royalties (currently about 6p for each book borrowed). Many writers, particularly retired writers depend on this income and will suffer if it is eroded