BOOKMARK Books of the Month

We started providing Book of the Month recommendations in November 2019 - we hope you enjoy them.

November 2024


The Last Witch of Scotland

The Last Witch of Scotland by Philip Paris

The Specimen by Jaima Fixsen

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The Burning Stones by Antti Tuomainen

Cairn by Kathleen Jamie

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October 2024


My Italian Bulldozer

My Italian Bulldozer by Sir Alexander McCall Smith

Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson

Odyssey by Stephen Fry

Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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September 2024


The Winds from Further West

The Winds from Further West by Alexander McCall Smith

The Glassmaker by Tracey Chevalier

The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden

What a Way to Go by Bella Mackoe

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

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Here is a list of all the Books we have reviewed:

Autobiography

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan

Children

Snail in Space by Rachel Bright

Torfinn and the Gruesome Games by David MacPhail

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

Odyssey by Stephen Fry

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

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

Anna O by Matthew Blake

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

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol

An Astronomer in Love by Antoine Laurain

Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan

Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

Confidence by Denise Mina

Daughters of Olympus by Hannah Lynn

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Frank and Red by Matt Coyne

French Windows by Antoine Laurain

Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff

Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd

Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

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

James by Percival Everett

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

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 Italian Bulldozer by Sir Alexander McCall Smith

My Sand Life My Pebble Life by Ian McMillan

No one Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara

One Hour of Fervour by Muriel Barbery

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Paper Cup by Karen Campbell

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

So Late In The Day by Clare Keegan

Spark’s Satire by Muriel Spark

Stories for Summer and Days by the Pool by Various

Tales for Twilight: A Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories by Alistair Kerr

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri

The Burning Stones by Antti Tuomainen

The Circle by Dave Eggers

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

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 Great Godden by Meg Rosoff

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton

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

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Romantic by William Boyd

The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden

The Secrets of Blythswood Square by Sara Sheridan

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner

The Winds from Further West by Alexander McCall Smith

The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Various

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Us by David Nicolls

Weak Teeth by Lynsey May

We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

Weyward by Emilia Hart

What a Way to Go by Bella Mackoe

Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang

Historical Fiction

Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris

A Thief's Justice by Douglas Skelton

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

Cuddy by Benjamin Myres

Haven by Emma Donoghue

Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson

My Name is Yip by Paddy Crew

Nothing Left to Fear from Hell by Alan Warner

Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid

Ritual of Fire by D V Bishop

Rizzio by Denise Mina

Rose Nicholson by Andrew Greig

Sparrow by James Hynes

The Bookseller of Inverness by S G MacLean

The Glassmaker by Tracey Chevalier

The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

The Last Witch of Scotland by Philip Paris

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

The Mysterious Case of the Stone of Destiny by David Maule

The Queen's Fool by Phillipa Gregory

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 Specimen by Jaima Fixsen

The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker

The Winter List by S G MacLean

The Wisest Fool by Steven Veerapen

Three Fires by Denise Mina

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

Poetry

A Handsel: New & Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead

A Poem for Everyday of the Year by Allie Esiri

Cairn by Kathleen Jamie

Hamish Henderson: Collected Poems by Corey Gibson

Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope

Owen & Sassoon: The Edinburgh Poems by Neil McLennan

Pocket Poets edition of Burns by Robert Burns

Poetry Please: Love Poems by Various

The Banes O The Turas by Jim Mackintosh

The Poet and the Echo by Various Authors

Short Stories

Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell

Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Teens