BOOKMARK Books of the Month

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

May 2023


A Poem for Everyday of the Year

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

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April 2023


Demon Copperhead

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

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March 2023


The Hidden Fires: a Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd

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

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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

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

Short Stories

Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Teens