Don’t panic. Whatever your problem, we’ve a bookmark that can help
We’ve made these lovely (if we do say so ourselves) bookmarks for you to cut out and use, as a little gift to you in the February issue. Each one has its own purpose, with a wallpaper pattern on the front and space on the back for you to write something, from notes for your book club meeting to recommendations for a friend. We’re confident they are not only beautiful, but so useful, one might just save your life some day. So we borrowed a few potentially deadly literary scenarios and have imagined ways in which one of these bookmarks might get you out of the bind. With apologies to Britain’s Literary Canon.
1. Marooned on Treasure Island. Write a note on your bookmark calling for help, pop it one of Flint's empty bottles of rum and throw it into the sea.
2. Crocodile attack in the jungle. Pop your bookmark swiftly into the gaping jaws of the beast in place of a stick. Make your escape into the heart of darkness while the croc wonders what a bookmark is, and you head off in search of Kurtz.
3. Stuck on an island with a group of strangers and you start to suspect a murderer is amongst you. Use the back of your bookmark to make a list of all the potential suspects. Tick each off as they meet their grisly death. Admit that you yourself are in fact the murderer. And then there were none!
4. Aliens land in Woking and you're holed up in a mansion house. Carefully creep out of the house, holding your bookmark aloft. If the alien spots you, flash your decorative bookmark at him. Aliens have never seen bookmarks before. While the alien is temporarily distracted by the beautiful paper item, make good your escape and get busy developing strains of earth-born bacteria to defeat them in a war of the worlds.
5. Fallen in love in the time of cholera? Just stay at home on your own and read a book until all this has blown over.
You’ll find your free bookmarks between pages 66 and 67 of the February issue.
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