Hi Everyone
please read the list below and type your 1st and 2nd choices in the 'comments'.
As soon as everyone has voted, I'll collate the votes and announce the Purple Coo Summer Read 2011 on the Purple Coo main site.
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
Ex-private eye Jackson Brodie is in Edinburgh at a loose end. While his girlfriend Julia acts in a dreadful fringe production, a body is washed up on Cramond Island - A joy to read, full of wit, surprise and intrigue - a cut above the usual detective stuff...
Cuckoo by Julia Crouch
A psychological thriller, but don’t be hoodwinked by those apparent clues, the ending will come as a surprise I’m sure. Once you start this book you won’t be able to put it down, but it may put you off ever helping a friend in need.
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
An extraordinary story of a unique inheritance – quite truthfully one of the best books I have ever read, so brilliantly written that, even if we don’t pick it for our Summer 2011 Read, I suggest you get on and read it just the same.
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
A bestseller, telling a tale about a man who wants to change the world by bringing peace through education. A remarkable true story from Pakistan.
The Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
The third title in the Tiffany Aching part of the Discworld series, with all Sir Terry’s usual zany wit and charm – a satire on teenage behaviour and a cheeky reworking of the Orpheus myth. (I know this was on our winter list, but it has been requested again, so here it is, to do with as you please)
The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
Does she kiss him on the lips? I guess you'll never know unless you choose this book. Muddy recommends it, so give it a second chance - perhaps?
The Jester of Astapovo by Rose Tremain
A story all about the death of Tolstoy. About 7,000 words. Amusing and poignant and as always in the works of Rose Tremain, full of side stories. You think it is going to be a country romance, picking mushrooms in the forest, the protagonists sneaking off on bicycles, and then you find it's about the death of Tolstoy and copyrights and railway cottages and so on. Fennie says he paid £10 for an (unsigned) edition at Hay recently and then found out you could download it for free as it was published in the Guardian and is available if you Google it.
(The painting is by one of The Glasgow Boys, and to my eternal shame I can't remember which one)
(The painting is by one of The Glasgow Boys, and to my eternal shame I can't remember which one)
