BOOKMARK Books of the Month
We started providing Book of the Month recommendations in November 2019 - we hope you enjoy them.
October 2022
The Killing Tide by Lin Anderson
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest by James Aldred
Coldiz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben MacIntyre
See Details >>September 2022
The Bookseller of Inverness by S G MacLean
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Haven by Emma Donoghue
Marple-Twelve New Stories by Multiple
Otherlands-A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
See Details >>August 2022
Paper Cup by Karen Campbell
The House of Fortune by Jessie Burto.
Confidence by Denise Mina
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Rogues, Rebels and Mavericks of the Middle Ages by John Brunton
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through The Women Written Out Of It by Janine Ramirez
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
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
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
The Adventures of Tom Sawyers by Mark Twain
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Crime Fiction
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
Fiction
Confidence by Denise Mina
Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
My Sand Life My Pebble Life by Ian McMillan
Paper Cup by Karen Campbell
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Fell by Sarah Moss
The Forevers by Chris Whitaker
The House of Fortune by Jessie Burto.
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
The Queen & I by Sue Townsend
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
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
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
Non-Fiction
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
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
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of our World by Tim Marshall
The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy
Tough Women Adventure Stories by Jenny Tough
Written in Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind by Sue Black
Teens
Travel
Travels with Myself and Another: Five Journeys from Hell by Martha Gellhorn