Anxious People (2021) by Fredrik Backman Description It’s New Year’s Eve and House Tricks estate agents are hosting an open viewing in an up-market apartment when an incompetent bank robber rushes in and politely takes everyone hostage. For Anna-Lena and Roger, busy buying-up apartments to fill the hole in their Read more…
Top ten road trips in books As we move into a new year, our thoughts often turn towards planning for a holiday. Whether you travel by car or on foot, how about a road trip, this year? The following ten books – some fiction, some non-fiction – might give you Read more…
A 2022 retrospective of reading These are all books read by Bookmark this year, and are not limited to books published only in 2022. Ten of the best in fiction, five of non-fiction. Fiction Non-fiction
The Lamplighters (2022), Emma Stonex Description Cornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. The entrance door is locked from the inside. The clocks have stopped. The Principal Keeper’s weather log describes a mighty storm, but the skies have been clear all week. What happened to Read more…
Coming-of-age during America’s opioid crisis: David Copperfield relocated to the 1990s Appalachians. Mixed-race Demon (birth name Damon Fields) is born in a trailer to a teenage addict, inheriting nothing but his dead father’s good looks and copper-coloured hair. When his mother dies from an overdose, he is shunted from one Read more…
Not one, but two books this month! The Ghosts of Paradise Place (2019) by Andy Conway Don’t look back or the devil will get you… The dark anti-heroine of the bestselling time travel saga gets her own personal origin story in this novella that reveals how she first found her Read more…
Ten Books to read over Wintertide This selection contains some classics which deal directly with the festive period, some we associate with Christmas, while others hinge more on snow and ice. There is a great read here for each member of the family.
A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal (2015) Ben Macintyre Description A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRÉ ‘Riveting, astounding … An unputdownable postwar thriller’ Observer ‘Irresistibly readable’ Sunday Times ‘Worthy of John le Carr e at his best’ Guardian ‘Hugely engrossing … Both authoritative and enthralling’ William Boyd Kim Philby Read more…
Ten dark tales for Halloween Spine-tingling atmosphere, mounting dread and unhinged characters equal great Halloween reading. Ten of the best modern classics in Gothic horror. This compilation was originally published on amandaread.net
The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Elliot ‘If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?’ Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her Read more…