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March 2024


The Stone of Destiny & The Scots

The Stone of Destiny & The Scots by John Hulbert

The Mysterious Case of the Stone of Destiny by David Maule

Scotland's Stone of Destiny by Nick Aitchinson

19th Century Female Explorers by Caroline Roop

The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan

The Secrets of Blythswood Square by Sara Sheridan

The Women by Kristin Hannah

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February 2024


The Library of Heartbeats

The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina

Cuddy by Benjamin Myres

The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez

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

Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope

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January 2024


Lessons in Chemistry

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Paper Cup by Karen Campbell

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

Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Pocket Poets edition of Burns by Robert Burns

A Handsel: New & Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead

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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

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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 Blind Eye by Marion Todd

A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin

Bloody Scotland by Various

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 Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict

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 Unexpected Guest by Hania Allen

The Wild Coast by Lin Anderson

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

An Astronomer in Love by Antoine Laurain

Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Confidence by Denise Mina

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

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

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 Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri

The Circle by Dave Eggers

The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie

The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan

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 Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina

The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

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 Secrets of Blythswood Square by Sara Sheridan

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner

The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Various

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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

A Thief's Justice by Douglas Skelton

Cuddy by Benjamin Myres

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 Mysterious Case of the Stone of Destiny by David Maule

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

Three Fires by Denise Mina

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

History

19th Century Female Explorers by Caroline Roop

Scotland's Stone of Destiny by Nick Aitchinson

The Stone of Destiny & The Scots by John Hulbert

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

Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell

Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Teens