BOOKMARK Books of the Month
We started providing Book of the Month recommendations in November 2019 - we hope you enjoy them.
September 2020
The Bear Pit by S G MacLean
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Sight Unseen by Sandra Ireland
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
The Guardians by John Grisham
Three Hours by Rosamund Lipton
See Details >>August 2020
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
Silver by Chris Hammer
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold by Daniel James Brown
Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World by David Maraniss
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
For the Glory: The Untold and Inspiring Story of Eric Liddell by Duncan Hamilton
See Details >>July 2020
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Indigo: In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World by Catherine McKinley
Violet by SJI Holliday
See Details >>Here is a list of all the Books we have reviewed:
Biography
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Children's
An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Castle Legends by Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper
Crime Fiction
Violet by SJI Holliday
Fiction
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Dark Town by Thomas Mullen
Florida by Lauren Groff
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Redhead By The Side Of The Road by Anne Tyler
Silver by Chris Hammer
Summer by Ali Smith
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
The Other Half of Augusta Hope by Joanna Glen
The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan
The Wolves of Levinsky Prospekt by Sarah Armstrong
Historical Fiction
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
The Bear Pit by S G MacLean
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
History
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
Non-Fiction
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
Along the Amber Route by C J Schüler
Corvus: A Life with Birds by Esther Woolfson
Enemies of the People?: How Judges Shape Society by Joshua Rozenberg
Going to the Berries: Voices of Perthshire and Angus Seasonal Workers by Roger Leitch, Edited by Caroline Milligan
Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr
Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World by David Maraniss
Seashaken Houses by Tom Nancollas
The Boy from Nowhere by Gregor Fisher
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold by Daniel James Brown
The Great Scottish Diaspora Tapestry by Andrew Crummy
The King over the Water, The Jacobite Cause 1688-1807 by Desmond Seward
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
The Scottish World: A Journey into the Scottish Diaspora by Billy Kay
Travels with a Stick by Richard Frazer
Photography & Poetry
Edinburgh by Alan Wright with poetry by Gerda Stevenson
Poetry
Anecdotal Evidence by Wendy Cope
Being Alive by Neil Astley
Moder Dy by Roseanne Watt
The Zoo of the New by Edited by Nick Laird and Don Patterson
Scottish Fiction
A Blood is Still by Douglas Skelton
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
The End of the Line by Gillian Galbraith
The Ninth Child by Sally Magnusson
The Other Bennett Sister by Janice Hadlow
The Professor of Truth by James Robertson
Sport
For the Glory: The Untold and Inspiring Story of Eric Liddell by Duncan Hamilton
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
Travel
Indigo: In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World by Catherine McKinley
Young adult
Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray