The Ghost by Robert Harris Description A body washes up on the deserted coastline of America’s most exclusive holiday retreat. But it’s no open-and-shut case of suicide. The death of Robert McAra is just the first piece of the jigsaw in an extraordinary plot that will shake the very foundations Read more…
Top 10: Schemers and Opportunists Fictional characters we love to hate.
Sapphire Skies (2015) by Belinda Alexandra Description A love bigger than a war. A beautiful woman lost. A mystery unsolved … until now. 2000: The wreckage of a downed WWII fighter plane is discovered in the forests near Russia’s Ukrainian border. The aircraft belonged to Natalya Azarova, ace pilot and Read more…
Top 10: Love Stories With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we celebrate with a list of the best books about love. Bubbling Under: The following books just missed out of the Top 10. Nevertheless, they each include a beautiful love story.
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…