To Vote for our Purple Coo Book Club Spring Read 2016 please list your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below, or let me know via the Purple Coo site or via Facebook. The most popular book will be announced on Purple Coo as soon as I've had the chance to add up your votes. Only 5 books to vote for this time, and all of them very worth reading, so it's going to be a close run thing.
Girl on a Swing by Richard Adams
By the author of Watership Down, but a much
different tale, no dear little wandering rabbits in this one. Girl on a Swing is
a spooky supernatural thriller. Think, young married couple, a mysterious
antique, strange influences, worrying noises in the night, faint sounds of a
child crying in the garden, with the promise of more troubling things to come.
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
The novel that won the late Anita Brookner the
Booker Prize.
Edith Hope, a determinedly unmarried novelist
seeks exile and solace in the Hotel du Lac. Among the assorted pampered female guests
is Mr Neville, and Edith is tempted by this final chance to change her life. A
subtle, elegiac, charming and thoughtful novel.
Queen of Silks by Vanora Bennett
Part love story, part thriller, a masterly
piece of storytelling set around the intertwining fates of two beautiful
sisters during the reign of Edward IV. One woman is mistress to the king, the
other the court silk weaver, both find out secrets perhaps they shouldn’t know.
Red Fortunes by Hugh Fraser
Set in Russia between the tangled years of 1914
– 1929, this is a page turning tale around love and romance, language
difference, class, revolution, prostitution and vodka. Nostrovia!
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas
Adams
The first of the comedy science fiction series,
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a real blast of original, mind bending mirth.
Fabulously funny … but then I guess you’ll know that already.
