Hi Everyone
please read the list below and type your 1st and 2nd choices in the 'comments' box.
As soon as everyone has voted, I'll collate the votes and announce the Purple Coo Summer Read 2013 on the Purple Coo main site. I think you'll agree there's some really interesting suggestions this time.
Alex and
Me by Irene M Pepperbeg
How a
scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence and
formed a deep bond in the process.
Extra Virgin
by Annie Hawes
An ideal
summer holiday read about a woman settling in
a little Italian village in Liguia and taking on an olive grove, much to
the dismay of the locals. Warm and funny.
If Wishes
were Horses by Susanna Forrest
One for the all those who love horses. It's a memoir of
an Equine Obsession
Like Water
for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
A Mexican
magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and simmering sensuality –
and recipes too. Anyone who’s seen the film will know this is pretty hot stuff
– quite literally if you remember the final scene. Wow!
Life of Pi by
Yyann Martel
I guess many
of us will have seen the extraordinary film. If anything the book is even more
fantastic or maybe I should say bizarre. This is not your usual shipwrecked at
sea adventure story.
The Fox in
the Cupboard by Jane Shilling
Poignant
memoir of growing up and family and then, as a single mum learning to ride and
experiencing fox hunting for the first time.
The Perfume
Garden by Kate Lord Brown
No, not 'The Perfumed Garden' tsk! tsk! This is a gripping
story of lost love and family secrets set between modern day Valencia and the
Spanish Civil war, not the the exotic sex manual translated by Richard Burton... no, not the actor ... the Victorian explorer.
The Perfume
Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
Another dual
strand narrative, this time set in the 1920s and the 1950s. Bored socialite
newlywed receives a sizable inheritance from someone she’s never met. She goes
off to France to investigate her benefactor and tracks the unknown woman
from New York to Monte Carlo and a
perfumery in wartime Paris.
Midnight in Pekin
Real life crime that is as strange and as startling as fiction. A true story of a murdered girl and her distraught father's search to find the truth in wartime Pekin.
Midnight in Pekin
Real life crime that is as strange and as startling as fiction. A true story of a murdered girl and her distraught father's search to find the truth in wartime Pekin.
