BOOKMARK Books of the Month
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November 2024
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
See Details >>October 2024
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
See Details >>September 2024
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
See Details >>Here is a list of all the Books we have reviewed:
Autobiography
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan
Biography
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
Shackleton by Ranulph Fiennes
The Story Of My Life by Helen Keller
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
Non-Fiction
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland
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
Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis
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
Landlines by Raynor Winn
Mothers of the Mind by Rachel Trethewey
Otherlands-A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
Rogues, Rebels and Mavericks of the Middle Ages by John Brunton
SAS Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
Sea Bean by Sally Husband
Secret London: an unusual guide by Rachel Howard
The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: the colourful life of an American in the Highlands by Caroline Young
The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall
The Hidden Fires: a Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd by Merryn Glover
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of our World by Tim Marshall
The Ship Beneath the Ice by Mensun Bound
The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy
Tough Women Adventure Stories by Jenny Tough
Walking the Antonine Wall by Alan Montgomery
Written in Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind by Sue Black
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
Science Fiction
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 42nd Anniversary by Douglas Adams
Short Stories
Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Teens
Travelogue
From Utmost East to Utmost West: My life of exploration and adventure by John Blashford-Snell
Travels with Myself and Another: Five Journeys from Hell by Martha Gellhorn
Walking the Bones on Britain: a 3 billion year journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary by Christopher Somerville
Writing Landscapes by Linda Cracknell