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Kate Davies' Book Selection for December 2022

BOOKMARK Book Recommendations: December 2022How have we got to December already? Thought it might be useful to offer some ideas for any blank Christmas lists, as...

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Literary Lunch

Literary Lunch March 28 2020 (sponsored by the Faculty of Advocates) BOOKMARK Book Festival began its tenth anniversary year in some style. On a gloriously sunny...

by Gail Wylie, BOOKMARK CHAIR
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Olga Wojtas

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Weird Sisters Olga Wojtas, BOOKMARK Patron, publishes her 3rd Brodie-inspired novel on March 17, with the intriguing title above. Macbeth...

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BOOKMARK News

After being with us since the start of BOOKMARK, coming up for ten years ago, one of our Trustees and one of our Patrons have...

by Gail Wylie, BOOKMARK CHAIR
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Thank you from Team BOOKMARK

Thank you all for coming to BOOKMARK’s  last event of 2021.  Jim Mackintosh, with guest poets Beth McDonough and John Glenday entertained a capacity crowd at...

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Merryn Glover - Winner of Book of the Year 2021 - News

Excerpt from Merryn's recent blog:...I was about to go to bed when I clocked the package from Gail Wylie, Chair of the BOOKMARKFestival. It looked...

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BOOKMARK BOOK FESTIVAL 2021

Going Abroad and Coming Home October 8-9 In memory of Christine Findlay PostscriptTwo days before 2021’s BOOKMARK Book Festival, we were honoured and delighted to be...

by Gail Wylie, BOOKMARK CHAIR
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BOOKMARK 2021 - Additional Thoughts

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown....

by Gail Wylie, BOOKMARK CHAIR
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BOOKMARK - Book of the Year 2021

Book of the Year Award 2021AND THE WINNER IS OF STONE & SKY BYMERRYN GLOVERfor more information regarding Merryn, please click hereIn 2020  BOOKMARK  inaugurated its...