Purple Coo Book Group Spring 2020

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.

Mr Godley’s Phantom by Mal Peet

Set in 1945, ‘part ghost story, part crime thriller and part something else entirely.’

Martin Heath returns from the war a broken man, but his new employer, a strange and preoccupied recluse, has his own hidden demons to deal with. (Something close to a masterpiece – The Guardian)

Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson

A witty and humorous travelogue following Bill Bryson’s extensive 1990 trip around Europe, with many flashbacks to two summer tours he made as a young man in 1972/73

Surviving Me by Jo Johnson

The story of an out of work young man in a crisis, Surviving Me  tends to focus on the challenges facing men today by dealing with depression, dysfunctional families and degenerative disease in an honest, life affirming and often humorous way.

The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

First published in 1912, and widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest novels in the Irish comic tradition, The Crock of Gold is a medley of fantasy, satire and humour all wound up in a magical narrative.

The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary

Written in 1942, just seven months before the authors untimely death, this book is considered to be one of the classic texts of World War II

(Not the easiest reading but well worth the effort)

(The picture is A change in the Seasons by Cheryl Culver)