To vote for your favourite, please make your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below then, after a count up, the title of the most popular book will be posted on the Purple Coo main site. It then becomes our Purple Coo Book Club Winter Read for 2013
A Dark
Enchantment by Roland Vernon
A debut
novel, part love story, part political thriller, with a colourful main
character in an exotic setting – i.e. Greece – what’s not to like, eh?
Brazzaville
Beach by William Boyd
In
Fennie’s words ‘weird but excellent.’ Science and discord in the heart of civil
war-torn Africa. A gutsy female anthropologist makes a shocking discovery about
apes and man.
Have the
Men Had Enough by Margaret Forster
Unsentimental
about the desolation of old age. Narrated alternately by a 17 year old and her
mother, this book is about the decline into senile dementia of an elderly
relative, ‘Grandma.’
My
Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
First
published in 1951, a mystery romance set in Cornwall - I bet most of us have
read this book at one time or another – but it’s well worth another read, not
least because I bet few remember the twists of the plot.
The
Earl’s Bargain by Cheryl Bolen
Historical
regency Romance full of escapist fun, action and humour and dark secrets.
The
Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
A young
girl witnesses a shocking crime that changes everything – murder, mystery,
thievery and enduring love. The secret history of three strangers from vastly
different worlds.
Waiting
for Sunrise by William Boyd
Set in
Vienna in 1913, a young neurotic English actor meets a beautiful woman in a
psychiatrist’s office and their affair leads to destructive consequences – a world
of sex, scandal and spies – classic Boyd in fact.
The picture is an oil pastel by the talented Cheryl Culver
