Summer Reading for the Purple Book Club
Here is the list of suggested books.
Please make your 1st and 2nd choice in the comment box. I’ll collate the votes and put the most popular book choice on the Book Forum. Then we can all get reading!
A Woman's Europe by Marybeth Bond
True stories and tales about women's travels in and around Europe. A wonderful collection by talented women writers.
Blue Sky July by Nia Wyn
Part prose, part poetry, this book reveals the pain and joy of the experience of motherhood when your child has profound and multiple difficulties. A deeply moving account of one mother's love for her severely disabled son.
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
A rambling first person narration. A complicated and disturbing book, sad, serious and eminently readable.
Galloper Jack by Brough Scott
A grandson's search for a forgotten hero, General Jack Seeley. Ripping yarns about early 20th Century adventure and politics.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
True confessions of one of Japan’s most celebrated Geishas.
Passion by Jude Morgan
The Romantics remembered. A novel about the lives and loves of those very Romantic, famous (infamous?) poets, Byron, Shelley and Keats. This story explores their lives through the eyes of the women who knew and loved them.
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny
In order to clear her son’s name a woman has to make a terrible journey through the Canadian wilderness in the dead of winter. Her only companion a strange and apparently brutal man.
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
An inspiring book about the search for wilderness and its meanings - (back on the list at Exmoorjanes special request. If we all choose to read it, she's going to take up backpacking in the Highlands - isn't that true Jane?)
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
A funny, clever and well observed tale of migrant workers strawberry picking in Kent.
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
A warm, poignant, funny, moving and totally believable portrayal of a London family in crisis.
(The picture is Cottages at Cordeville 1890 by Van Gough)
