Literary Websites

Abe books - www.abebooks.com - Great second hand books.
Gutenberg - www.gutenberg.org
Poetry archive - www.poetryarchive.org
Bookslut - www.bookslut.com
Ready steady book - www.readysteadybook.com
Guardian books - www.books.guardian.co.uk 
Siyahi Literary Consultancy - www.siyahi.in

Other Literary Festivals

These are some of our favourites

January
Jaipur Festival -  www.jaipurfestival.org/literature_festival.html

March
Shanghai Literary Festival - www.m-restaurantgroup.com
Oxford - www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com

May
Hay on Wye - http://www.hayfestival.com/hayfestival/programme.asp
Charleston - www.charleston.org.uk/charlestonfestival/  

Festival of Asian Literature - London - www.festivalofasianliterature.com

June
Immrama, Lismore - http://www.lismore-immrama.com/index.shtml 

July
West Cork Literary festival - www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ie

August
FLIP, Brazil - www.flip.org.br
Byron Bay - www.byronbaywritersfestival.com.au

September
Hay Festival, Segovia, Spain - www.hayfestival.co.uk/segovia

October
Ubud - www.ubudwritersfestival.com

Henley Literary Festival - www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk

Other Festival in Sri Lanka 

Colombo Art Biennale- http://colomboartbiennale.com/ 

The Galle Children's Festival- http://www.gallechildrensfestival.com/

The Kandy Perahera 

Gourmet Galle 

Specialist Book Publishers

Persephone Books: http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/
Persephone prints mainly neglected fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about women. The titles are chosen to appeal to busy women who rarely have time to spend in ever-larger bookshops and who would like to have access to a list of books designed to be neither too literary nor too commercial

Eland Books
http://www.travelbooks.co.uk/about.asp
Eland specializes in keeping the classics of travel literature in print

Blaft publications: www.blaft.com
Blaft Publications is an independent publishing house based in Chennai, India.
Our list includes bestselling Indian crime novels, experimental fiction, pulp art, and graphic novels.

Sort of books: www.sortof.co.uk
Publish few but wonderful books

Perera Hussein publishing www.ph-books.com

To enable and encourage talented South Asian writers to gain exposure and recognition

Bookshops

 Barefoot

706 Galle Road
Colombo 3, Sri Lanka

http://barefootceylon.com/