BOOKMARK Books of the Month
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June 2022
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Zachary Cloudsley
My Name is Yip by Paddy Crew
The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
A Scottish Wildlife Odyssey by Keith Broomfield
Good Data: An Optimists Guide To Our Digital Future by Sam Gilbert
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Story Of My Life by Helen Keller
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
See Details >>May 2022
Rose Nicholson by Andrew Greig
A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Adventures of Tom Sawyers by Mark Twain
See Details >>April 2022
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Rizzio by Denise Mina
The Queen's Lender by Jean Findlay
The Queen & I by Sue Townsend
Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots by Jennifer Morag
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
See Details >>Here is a list of all the Books we have reviewed:
Biography
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
The Story Of My Life by Helen Keller
Children
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
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
The Adventures of Tom Sawyers by Mark Twain
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Crime Fiction
Bloody Scotland by Various
The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
The Edinburgh Mystery: and other tales of Scottish Crime by Martin Edwards
Fiction
Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
My Sand Life My Pebble Life by Ian McMillan
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
The Fell by Sarah Moss
The Forevers by Chris Whitaker
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
The Queen & I by Sue Townsend
Us by David Nicolls
We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker
Historical Fiction
My Name is Yip by Paddy Crew
Rizzio by Denise Mina
Rose Nicholson by Andrew Greig
The Queen's Lender by Jean Findlay
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Zachary Cloudsley
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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
Non-Fiction
A Scottish Wildlife Odyssey by Keith Broomfield
Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots by Jennifer Morag
Good Data: An Optimists Guide To Our Digital Future by Sam Gilbert
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of our World by Tim Marshall
The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy
Tough Women Adventure Stories by Jenny Tough
Written in Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind by Sue Black
Teens
Travel
Travels with Myself and Another: Five Journeys from Hell by Martha Gellhorn