BOOKMARK Books of the Month

Autobiography

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan

Biography

Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter

No Country for a Woman by Jane Dismore

Shackleton by Ranulph Fiennes

The Story Of My Life by Helen Keller

Children

Hamish the Highland Cow by Natalie Russell

Snail in Space by Rachel Bright

The Midnight Fair by Gideon Sterer and Mariachiara Di Giorgio

The Squirrel and the Lost Treasure by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Torfinn and the Gruesome Games by David MacPhail

Classics

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dramatic Murder by Elizabeth Anthony

Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez

Odyssey by Stephen Fry

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

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 Caroll

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 Blind Eye by Marion Todd

A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin

Anna O by Matthew Blake

Bloody Scotland by Various

Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

Marple-Twelve New Stories by Multiple

Murder at Holly House by Denzil Meyrick

Past Lying by Val McDermid

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 Great Deceiver by Elly Griffith

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

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker

The Unexpected Guest by Hania Allen

The Wild Coast by Lin Anderson

Think Twice by Harlan Coban

This House of Burning Bones by Stuart McBride

Voices Of The Dead by Ambrose Parry

Fiction

Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain

A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno

After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories by Alistair Kerr

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol

An Astronomer in Love by Antoine Laurain

Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan

Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

Confidence by Denise Mina

Daughters of Olympus by Hannah Lynn

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love by Joanne Ellas Parsons

For Emma by Ewan Morrison

Frank and Red by Matt Coyne

French Windows by Antoine Laurain

Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff

Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd

Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

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

James by Percival Everett

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

Killing Time by Alan Bennett

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Lily by Rose Tremain

Little Wing by Freya North

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Looking for You by Alexander McCall Smith

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce

Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Uncharted Island by Olga Wojtas

Miss Blaine’s Prefect & the Gondola of Doom by Olga Wojtas

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

My Italian Bulldozer by Sir Alexander McCall Smith

My Sand Life My Pebble Life by Ian McMillan

Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell

No one Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara

One Hour of Fervour by Muriel Barbery

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Paper Cup by Karen Campbell

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

So Late In The Day by Clare Keegan

Spark’s Satire by Muriel Spark

Stories for Summer and Days by the Pool by Various

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

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri

The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr

The Burning Stones by Antti Tuomainen

The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict

The Circle by Dave Eggers

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie

The Eights by Joanna Miller

The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan

The Fell by Sarah Moss

The Forevers by Chris Whitaker

The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce

The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer

The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono

The Names by Florence Knapp

The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

The Notekeeper by Hannah Treave

The Party by Tessa Hadley

The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji

The Queen & I by Sue Townsend

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Romantic by William Boyd

The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden

The Secrets of Blythswood Square by Sara Sheridan

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Silent House of Sleep by Allan Gaw

The Sirens by Emilia Hart

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The Time of the Child by Niall Williams

The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner

The Winds from Further West by Alexander McCall Smith

The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Various

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Us by David Nicolls

Weak Teeth by Lynsey May

We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

Weyward by Emilia Hart

What a Way to Go by Bella Mackoe

Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang

Historical Fiction

Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris

A Thief's Justice by Douglas Skelton

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

A Woman of Opinion by Sean Lusk

Carnival of Lies by D V Bishop

Cuddy by Benjamin Myres

For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie

Haven by Emma Donoghue

Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson

My Name is Yip by Paddy Crew

Nothing Left to Fear from Hell by Alan Warner

Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid

Ritual of Fire by D V Bishop

Rizzio by Denise Mina

Rose Nicholson by Andrew Greig

Sparrow by James Hynes

The Bookseller of Inverness by S G MacLean

The Death of Shame by Ambrose Parry

The Glassmaker by Tracey Chevalier

The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

The Last Witch of Scotland by Philip Paris

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

The Mysterious Case of the Stone of Destiny by David Maule

The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

The Queen's Fool by Phillipa Gregory

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 Specimen by Jaima Fixsen

The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker

The Winter List by S G MacLean

The Wisest Fool by Steven Veerapen

Three Fires by Denise Mina

Traitor's Legacy by S J Parris

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

History

19th Century Female Explorers by Caroline Roop

Scotland's Stone of Destiny by Nick Aitchinson

Spice by Roger Crowley

The Stone of Destiny & The Scots by John Hulbert

The Unknown Warrior by John Nichol

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

Skirly Crag by Helen Percy

The Sound of Many Waters: A Journey along the River Tay by Robin A Crawford

Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Non-Fiction

A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland

A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects by Anne Strathie

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

Heart by Banu Mushtaq

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq

Landlines by Raynor Winn

Mothers of the Mind by Rachel Trethewey

Night Train to Odesa by Jen Stout

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

Sea Bean by Sally Husband

Secret London: an unusual guide by Rachel Howard

Spring: The Story of a Season by Michael Morpurgo

The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: the colourful life of an American in the Highlands by Caroline Young

The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall

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

Thunderclap by Lara Cumming

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 Handsel: New & Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead

A Poem for Everyday of the Year by Allie Esiri

Cairn by Kathleen Jamie

Hamish Henderson: Collected Poems by Corey Gibson

Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope

Owen & Sassoon: The Edinburgh Poems by Neil McLennan

Pocket Poets edition of Burns by Robert Burns

Poetry Please: Love Poems by Various

Poetry Prescription: Words for Love by Deborah Alma

The Banes O The Turas by Jim Mackintosh

The Poet and the Echo by Various Authors

Puzzle

Cluedle: The Case of Rudolph's Revenge by

Science Fiction

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 42nd Anniversary by Douglas Adams

Short Stories

Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell

The Dead of Summer: Strange Tales of May Eve & Midsummer by Johnny Mains

The Winter Spirits by

Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Teens

Travelogue

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

Walking the Bones on Britain: a 3 billion year journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary by Christopher Somerville

Writing Landscapes by Linda Cracknell

True Crime

Story of a Murder: the Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold