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May 2023

A Poem for Everyday of the Year by Allie Esiri
Writing Landscapes by Linda Cracknell
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Circle by Dave Eggers
Sparrow by James Hynes
See Details >>April 2023

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie
From Utmost East to Utmost West: My life of exploration and adventure by John Blashford-Snell
The Romantic by William Boyd
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner
See Details >>March 2023

The Hidden Fires: a Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd by Merryn Glover
Walking the Antonine Wall by Alan Montgomery
Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 42nd Anniversary by Douglas Adams
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
The Party House by Lin Anderson
See Details >>Here is a list of all the Books we have reviewed:
Biography
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
Shackleton by Ranulph Fiennes
The Story Of My Life by Helen Keller
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
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Crime Fiction
A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin
Bloody Scotland by Various
Marple-Twelve New Stories by Multiple
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
Fiction
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories by Alistair Kerr
Confidence by Denise Mina
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
If I Survive You by Jeffrey Escoffery
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
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 Romantic by William Boyd
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner
Us by David Nicolls
We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker
Historical Fiction
Haven by Emma Donoghue
My Name is Yip by Paddy Crew
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 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
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
Non-Fiction
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland
A Scottish Wildlife Odyssey by Keith Broomfield
Coldiz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben MacIntyre
Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots by Jennifer Morag
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through The Women Written Out Of It by Janine Ramirez
Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis
Good Data: An Optimists Guide To Our Digital Future by Sam Gilbert
Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest by James Aldred
Otherlands-A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
Rogues, Rebels and Mavericks of the Middle Ages by John Brunton
SAS Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
Secret London: an unusual guide by Rachel Howard
The Hidden Fires: a Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd by Merryn Glover
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of our World by Tim Marshall
The Ship Beneath the Ice by Mensun Bound
The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy
Tough Women Adventure Stories by Jenny Tough
Walking the Antonine Wall by Alan Montgomery
Written in Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind by Sue Black
Poetry
A Poem for Everyday of the Year by Allie Esiri
Hamish Henderson: Collected Poems by Corey Gibson
Owen & Sassoon: The Edinburgh Poems by Neil McLennan
Poetry Please: Love Poems by Various
The Banes O The Turas by Jim Mackintosh
Science Fiction
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 42nd Anniversary by Douglas Adams
Short Stories
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Teens
Travel
From Utmost East to Utmost West: My life of exploration and adventure by John Blashford-Snell
Travels with Myself and Another: Five Journeys from Hell by Martha Gellhorn
Writing Landscapes by Linda Cracknell