BOOKMARK Books of the Month
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January 2021

Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
The Actuality by Paul Braddon
See Details >>December 2020 - Christmas Book Suggestions – Kate & Ralph, Adventure into Books

That's Not My Robin by Fiona Watt
Where's Spot by Eric Hill
I'm Sticking With You by Smriti Halls and Steve Small
Aunt Amelia by Rebecca Cobb
Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
Pirate Stew by Neil Gaiman
The Cat Who Wanted To Go Home by Jill Tomlinson
Thorfinn the Nicest Viking and The Putrid Potion by David Macphail
The Good Bear by Sarah Lean
The Highland Falcon Thief by MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman
Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome
A Day in the Life of a Poo... by Mike Barfield & Jess Bradley
See Details >>December 2020

Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernières
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
Olive, Mabel & Me by Andrew Cotter
Selected Poems by John Glenday
The Firth by John Glenday
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
See Details >>Here is a list of all the Books we have reviewed:
Biography
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Children's
An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Castle Legends by Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper
Aunt Amelia by Rebecca Cobb
Dogger's Christmas by Shirley Hughes
I'm Sticking With You by Smriti Halls and Steve Small
Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
Pirate Stew by Neil Gaiman
That's Not My Robin by Fiona Watt
The Cat Who Wanted To Go Home by Jill Tomlinson
The Good Bear by Sarah Lean
The Highland Falcon Thief by MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman
Thorfinn the Nicest Viking and The Putrid Potion by David Macphail
Where's Spot by Eric Hill
Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome
Crime Fiction
Violet by SJI Holliday
Family Reading
A Day in the Life of a Poo... by Mike Barfield & Jess Bradley
Kids Fight Plastic by Martin Dorey
Fiction
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernières
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Dark Town by Thomas Mullen
Florida by Lauren Groff
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Redhead By The Side Of The Road by Anne Tyler
Silver by Chris Hammer
Summer by Ali Smith
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
The Other Half of Augusta Hope by Joanna Glen
The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan
The Wolves of Levinsky Prospekt by Sarah Armstrong
When I Come Home Again by Caroline Scott
Historical Fiction
Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
The Bear Pit by S G MacLean
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
History
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
Non-Fiction
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
Along the Amber Route by C J Schüler
Corvus: A Life with Birds by Esther Woolfson
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
Enemies of the People?: How Judges Shape Society by Joshua Rozenberg
Going to the Berries: Voices of Perthshire and Angus Seasonal Workers by Roger Leitch, Edited by Caroline Milligan
Household Stories/Katei Monogatari by Angela Jeffs
Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr
Olive, Mabel & Me by Andrew Cotter
Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World by David Maraniss
Seashaken Houses by Tom Nancollas
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley
The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist by John Mullan
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
The Boy from Nowhere by Gregor Fisher
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold by Daniel James Brown
The Great Scottish Diaspora Tapestry by Andrew Crummy
The King over the Water, The Jacobite Cause 1688-1807 by Desmond Seward
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
The Scottish World: A Journey into the Scottish Diaspora by Billy Kay
The Story of Scottish Art by Lachlan Goudie
Travels with a Stick by Richard Frazer
Photography & Poetry
Edinburgh by Alan Wright with poetry by Gerda Stevenson
Poetry
Anecdotal Evidence by Wendy Cope
Being Alive by Neil Astley
Moder Dy by Roseanne Watt
Selected Poems by John Glenday
The Firth by John Glenday
The Zoo of the New by Edited by Nick Laird and Don Patterson
Science Fiction
The Actuality by Paul Braddon
Scottish Fiction
A Blood is Still by Douglas Skelton
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
The End of the Line by Gillian Galbraith
The Ninth Child by Sally Magnusson
The Other Bennett Sister by Janice Hadlow
The Professor of Truth by James Robertson
Sport
For the Glory: The Untold and Inspiring Story of Eric Liddell by Duncan Hamilton
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
Travel
Indigo: In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World by Catherine McKinley
Young adult
Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray