BOOKMARK Books of the Month

We started providing Book of the Month recommendations in November 2019 - we hope you enjoy them.

September 2023


The Winter List

The Winter List by S G MacLean

So Late In The Day by Clare Keegan

The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Re-Wilding the Sea by Charles Clover

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August 2023


Voices Of The Dead

Voices Of The Dead by Ambrose Parry

Weak Teeth by Lynsey May

An Astronomer in Love by Antoine Laurain

Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene

Sea Bean by Sally Husband

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July 2023


The Road

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy

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Here is a list of all the Books we have reviewed:

Children

Classics

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence

The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Tom Sawyers by Mark Twain

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carokll

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Conservation

Re-Wilding the Sea by Charles Clover

Crime Fiction

A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin

Bloody Scotland by Various

Marple-Twelve New Stories by Multiple

The Bone Road by N E Solomons

The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin

The Edinburgh Mystery: and other tales of Scottish Crime by Martin Edwards

The Killing Tide by Lin Anderson

The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallet

The Party House by Lin Anderson

The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee

The Survivor by Simon Conway

Voices Of The Dead by Ambrose Parry

Fiction

After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories by Alistair Kerr

An Astronomer in Love by Antoine Laurain

Confidence by Denise Mina

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights by Tanya Kirk

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

If I Survive You by Jeffrey Escoffery

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Lily by Rose Tremain

Little Wing by Freya North

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce

My Sand Life My Pebble Life by Ian McMillan

Paper Cup by Karen Campbell

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

So Late In The Day by Clare Keegan

Tales for Twilight: A Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories by Alistair Kerr

The Circle by Dave Eggers

The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie

The Fell by Sarah Moss

The Forevers by Chris Whitaker

The House of Fortune by Jessie Burto.

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono

The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

The Notekeeper by Hannah Treave

The Queen & I by Sue Townsend

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Romantic by William Boyd

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

Us by David Nicolls

Weak Teeth by Lynsey May

We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker

Historical Fiction

Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris

Haven by Emma Donoghue

My Name is Yip by Paddy Crew

Ritual of Fire by D V Bishop

Rizzio by Denise Mina

Rose Nicholson by Andrew Greig

Rose Nicholson by Andrew Greig

Rose Nicholson by Andrew Greig

Sparrow by James Hynes

The Bookseller of Inverness by S G MacLean

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

The Queen's Lender by Jean Findlay

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Zachary Cloudsley

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

The Winter List by S G MacLean

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Mystery

A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon

Key in the Lock by Beth Underdown

Miss Blaine's Prefect & the Weird Sisters by Olga Wojtas

The Darkest Sin by D V Bishop

Yesterday's Spy by Tom Bradby

Nature

Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Short Stories

Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Teens