Purple Coo Book Group Autumn Read 2019

To vote for your preferred books for our Purple Coo Book Group Autumn Read 2019 please list your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below.

If for an reason you are unable to write your comment in there, please let me know your two favourites via the Facebook Book Group comments box. 

As soon as everyone has voted I'll add up the votes and the book with the most votes becomes our Purple Coo Book Group Autumn Read 2019.

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

A series of brilliant vignettes set in the cannery district of Monterey USA during the Great Depression. Disturbing but life affirming, a truly Great American Novel.

Bookworm by Lucy Mangan

An all absorbing memoir of what is was like to be a bookish child in Margaret Thatcher’s South London.

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

A coming of age story. Over 6 turbulent months 17 year old Cassandra relates the adventures of her eccentric family and their struggle to live in genteel poverty in a ruined Suffolk castle during 1930s.

Love is Blind by William Boyd

Set at the end of the 19^th C young musician Brodie Moncur seizes the chance to flee his strict Edinburgh father to start a new life in Paris. A typical Boyd tale of dizzying passion, dangerous consequences and brutal revenge.

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay

The real life secret diaries of a junior doctor, now turned successful comedy writer, this book is almost too painfully truthful and very nearly as painfully funny.

(The picture is A Hinds Daughter by James Guthrie)