Five suggestions this time and for the first time ever 4 of them are non-fiction, but they are all such startling stories, I'm sure you'll have difficulty choosing your favourite.
As always, to vote, 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 Summer Read for 2014
Angel
in the Rubble By Genelle Guzman-McMillan
(Non
fiction) A true account of the miraculous rescue of the last person to be brought
out alive from the rubble of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers. Genelle is
trapped for 27 hours in what she describes as a “...sealed coffin of concrete
and steel.” Unable to get out and aware of the likelihood of her approaching
death, she has time to reflect on the life she’s lived and how she’s drifted
from the faith she once knew. It is only when she remembers the miraculous
recovery of her aunt in Trinidad that Genelle starts to have the hope ... just
maybe ... God has a miracle for her as well.
Summer
by Bill Bryson
(Non fiction)
A compelling account covering the happenings of the summer of 1927, the year
Linbergh flew from New York to Paris and Al Capone was arrested.
Priscilla
by Nicholas Shakespeare
(Non
fiction – Nicholas Shakespeare is Priscilla’s nephew) A fascinating account of his
aunt’s adventures, including her arrest and internment by the Gestapo, liaisons
with high ranking German Officers and two marriages: to a French nobleman and
an English mushroom farmer no less.
Testament
of Youth by Vera Brittain
(Non fiction) A magnificent
and brilliantly written account by Vera Brittain, of how she was about to go up
to Oxford when WW1 broke out. Four years later her life – and the lives of her
whole generation – has irretrievably changed. A brilliant suggestion for this
Centenary year. (If you liked Crimson Field – this is the real thing and infinitely
better)
The
Collector of Dying Breaths by M J Rose
A novel
of suspense and intrigue set in Florence, Italy – 1533. An orphan, plucked from
poverty becomes Catherine de Medici’s perfumer, and brings with him secret recipes
not only for exotic fragrances and potent medicines, but also covert poisons and a formula said to reanimate
the dead. Yet he little knows the tragic and personal consequences for which
his lethal potions will be responsible.
(The image is by Robert Delunay)
(The image is by Robert Delunay)
