Only 5 suggestions this time, so choosing your favourite two should be really easy. As always, 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 Spring Read for 2014
A Short
History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
An old
man is seduced into marriage by a gold digging glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee.
Needless to say his grown up family totally disapprove and do their utmost to
interfere. Expect some wry smiles, a few out and out laughs and a timely
reminder of some parts of Ukraine’s tragic past.
A
Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri
A
multilayered story of twin sisters in Iran and what happens when their paths separate.
Un-put-down-able and beautifully written, though it comes with a warning of
being rather cruel in parts.
Stoner
by John Williams
Despite
the title, this isn’t a book about drugs. It’s a profoundly moving story about the
life of an unhappily married man - an English professor in a Midwestern
university - who’s unlucky in love and frustrated in his career. Doesn’t sound that
promising does it? But rest assured it’s a brilliant read.
Tainted
Angel by Anne Cleeland
An
exhilarating Napoleonic adventure in Regency style. Vida Swanson, both
notorious and beautiful, is working as an ‘angel’, trying to coax incriminating
secrets from powerful men who may be traitors of the crown. A gripping historical
tale of double agents, intrigue and romance.
The Ghost of Alice Fields by David Cameron
The
adopted daughter of a Balkan’s scholar had been killed by a blow to the head. Jude
Oswald is profoundly affected when he chances upon the crime scene reconstruction
near his Edinburgh home. When he then uses his newspaper column to accuse the
murdered girl’s adopted father of her murder, his already troubled life going
into free fall.
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
A creatively
told tale dealing with mental illness and grief (winner of the Costa Book of
the Year 2013)
‘I’ll
tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother.
His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I really do. But in a
couple of pages he’ll be dead. And he was never the same after that.’
(The paintings by Miro but unfortunately I can't remember what it's called.)
