Purple Coo Book Club Winter Read 2013

A thousand pardons if any of your book titles didn't make the final 7 this time, but we've had so many brilliant suggestions.

To vote for your favourite, please make your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below then, after a count up, the title of the most popular book will be posted on the Purple Coo main site. It then becomes our Purple Coo Book Club Winter Read for 2013

A Dark Enchantment by Roland Vernon

A debut novel, part love story, part political thriller, with a colourful main character in an exotic setting – i.e. Greece – what’s not to like, eh?

Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd

In Fennie’s words ‘weird but excellent.’ Science and discord in the heart of civil war-torn Africa. A gutsy female anthropologist makes a shocking discovery about apes and man.

Have the Men Had Enough by Margaret Forster

Unsentimental about the desolation of old age. Narrated alternately by a 17 year old and her mother, this book is about the decline into senile dementia of an elderly relative, ‘Grandma.’

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

First published in 1951, a mystery romance set in Cornwall - I bet most of us have read this book at one time or another – but it’s well worth another read, not least because I bet few remember the twists of the plot.

The Earl’s Bargain by Cheryl Bolen

Historical regency Romance full of escapist fun, action and humour and dark secrets.

The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

A young girl witnesses a shocking crime that changes everything – murder, mystery, thievery and enduring love. The secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds.

Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd

Set in Vienna in 1913, a young neurotic English actor meets a beautiful woman in a psychiatrist’s office and their affair leads to destructive consequences – a world of sex, scandal and spies – classic Boyd in fact.

The picture is an oil pastel by the talented Cheryl Culver