Remember, to choose your preferred books for our Purple Coo Book Group Summer Read 2019, all you have to do is make your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below. If you are unable to comment for any reason, let me know your two favourites via the Purple Coo Main Site or tell me through Face Book, Behind the Bike Sheds. As soon as everyone has voted I'll publish our favourite and that becomes our Purple Coo summer choice. I think you'll agree we've got something to suit everyone this time.
All Among
the Barley by Melissa Harrison
It’s 1933
and young Edie is all set to spend her life, like her family before her, on an
impoverished Suffolk farm when an outsider from London arrives, determined to
record what she see as fading rural traditions and beliefs. But this glamorous
stranger is not all that she seems. This is a novel about how in the wrong
hands, nostalgia can wield a dangerous and seductive power.
My Kind
of Blue by Ken Clark
The memoir of a well-respected Tory maverick and jazz aficionado.
Sea Room
by Adam Nicholson
Aged 21
the 5th Baron Carnock, hubby to Sarah Raven and grandson of Vita Sackville West,
inherited the Shiant Islands, not far from the Isle of Harris and Lewis, to his
mind one of the most beautiful places on earth. Sea room is an island history
of birds, boat, hermits, fisher folk mixed in with the perils and pleasures of
island living.
The Olive
Tree by Lucinda Riley
The
complex nature of relationships, families and family ties, lies and deceptions,
love and intrigue. Set mostly in Cyprus, the story centres on a house called
Pandora and those who have been touched and influenced by its magic.
The
Templar’s Last Secret by Martin Walker
Bruno, gourmand
and beloved chief of police in idyllic St Denis in the Dordogne sets out to
unravel what lies behind a mysterious death and in so doing brings some ancient
mysteries to light. An enjoyable Maigret type thriller and a celebration of
French rural cuisine.