Purple Coo Book Group Autumn 2015

To Vote for our Purple Coo Book Club Autumn Read 2015 please list your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below, or let me know via the Purple Coo site or via Facebook. The most popular book will be announced on Purple Coo as soon as I've had the chance to add up your votes. 6 books to vote for this time, all of them very worth reading. It's going to be a close run thing. 

A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley

An amateur codebreaker is set the task of unravelling a mysterious journal from the 1730s. It turns out to be an account of her part in a scandalous and dangerous intrigue. This book is an exciting account of Jacobites in Paris, with an enigmatic Highlander and young woman on a dangerous and perilous mission. What’s not to like?

A Spool of blue Thread by Anne Tyler

A wonderful, minute examination of middle-class American family life. Four generations living in the suburbs. A patriarch with a murky past, his hardworking son and his four grownup children and their mother. She's a maddening, meddling woman with a determination that her four children will, against all odds, tolerate if not love one another.

Confessions by Jaume Cabre

A monumental novel about the problem of evil via the story of a priceless violin and its secret past.

The Collector of Dying Breaths by M J Rose

The fine line between potion and poison, poison and passion … past and present. 
The Past - an orphan plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici’s perfumer, think exotic fragrances, potent poisons and a formula for a process to reanimate the dead.

The Present – a renowned academic becomes obsessed with the gothic tale with the inevitable dangerous and obsessive consequences.

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

I howled with laughter, squirmed with embarrassment and wept genuine tears – yes really! - over this wonderful novel about a genius autistic genetics professor’s evidence based quest to find himself a wife. Moving and hilarious at the same time.

The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse

A pacy thriller concerned with avian taxidermy! A good gothic spooker very suitable for dark Halloween evenings. Set in 1912 on the edge of a drowned marsh near a small Sussex village where old superstitions still hold sway, a young woman gets involved with lots of spooky things, including a murder.

Photograph of Benacre by Alan Murray