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BOOKMARK Book of the Year 2025

BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLIST Since 2020, BOOKMARK has run its popular Book of the Year Award. The titles are chosen with book groups in...

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Kate Davies' Book Selection for January 2025

BOOKMARK Book Recommendations: January 2025 Happy New Year! May 2025 bring you joy and good books. I’m sure Santa will have brought you a book...

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Kate Davies' Book Selection for December 2024

BOOKMARK Book Recommendations: December 2024  At this time of year we get a lot of people coming into the bookshop asking what book we could...

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Kate Davies' Book Selection for November 2024

Wow! What a festival. A feast of powerful stories – personal and fictional: inspiring, gravity-defying, heart-wrenching, thought-provoking, fun. Truly something for everyone. I’m already looking...

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Kate Davies's Book Selection for October 2024

It’s show time! Festival Month is finally here, and what a weekend of treats to look forward to.  We can take it as read that...

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BOOKMARK News

Catherine Smith KC, who chaired the Simon Conway event in  BOOKMARK 2022, has just been appointed Advocate General for ScotlandBOOKMARK would like to pass on our congratulations

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Kate Davies' Book Selection for September 2024

The nights are drawing in, and the fire-side armchair is calling. That can only mean one thing – more reading time! To get us in...

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Intrepid Fundraisers

Our Patron Magnus Linklater give an impassioned talk last year about his trip to Ukraine, where he inspired one of our more intrepid members, Caroline...

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BOOKMARK 2024

BOOKMARK BOOK FESTIVAL 20243 August: Ticket Launch for BOOKMARK BOOK FESTIVALOlga Wojtas, one of our Patrons, will be reading from her highly entertaining Miss Blaine’s...