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2025 - February - Poetry Chapter

Each month, BOOKMARK visits two Blairgowrie Care Homes to read some poems aloud (and sometimes a resident will join in by reciting the poem by...

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Kate Davies' Book Selection for February 2025

February – cold and wintery? Not a bit of it! It’s a time of love, and hope and romance, and Poetry Prescription: Words for Love, chosen...

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Gail Wylie Pre-Theatre Talks - Spring 2025

BOOKMARK Chair, Gail Wylie, is returning again this year to deliver her very successful pre-theatre talks in Perth Theatre. The programme this year is both...

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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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Go With The Flow

The motto of BOOKMARK is ‘Go with the Flow’; a phrase which evokes the river Ericht that flows through the centre of Blairgowrie, our home. It’s an...

by Gail Wylie, BOOKMARK CHAIR