March - The three book choices to vite on are as follows:
A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh (3 VOTES)
Fermor
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Gifts-Constantinople-Holland-Middle/dp/0719566959/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358702233&sr=1-1
Publication Date: 15
Mar 2004
In
1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey
by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the
first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as
far as Hungary.
It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events
which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and
monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and
frogs, the hospitable burgomasters who welcomed him, and that world's grandeurs
and courtesies. His powers of recollection have astonishing sweep and verve, and
the scope is majestic.
The Moor’s Last Sigh -Salman
Rushdie
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moors-Last-Sigh-Salman-Rushdie/dp/009959241X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358702532&sr=1-1
Publication Date: 4
July 1996
Moares 'Moor' Zogoiby is a
'high-born crossbreed', the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice
merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As
he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a
labyrinthine tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic
matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that
strike beyond the grave. The Moor's Last Sigh is a spectacularly
ambitious, funny, satirical and compassionate novel. It is a love song to a
vanishing world, but also its last hurrah. (19951124)
Falling Angels - Tracy
Chevalier
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Falling-Angels-Tracy-Chevalier/dp/0007217234/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358703053&sr=1-1
Publication Date: 3 July 2006
January 1901, the day
after Queen Victoria’s death: two families visit neighbouring graves in a
fashionable London cemetery. One is decorated with a sentimental angel, the
other an elaborate urn. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen and cling to
Victorian traditions; the Colemans look forward to a more modern society. To
their mutual distaste, the families are inextricably linked when their daughters
become friends behind the tombstones. And worse, befriend the gravedigger’s
son.
As the girls grow up and
the new century finds its feet, as cars replace horses and electricity outshines
gas lighting, Britain emerges from the shadows of oppressive Victorian values to
a golden Edwardian summer. It is then that the beautiful, frustrated Mrs Coleman
makes a bid for greater personal freedom, with disastrous consequences, and the
lives of the Colemans and the Waterhouses are changed forever.
April - the three books we will vote on are as follows:
The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi (2 VOTES)
http://www.amazon.com/Two-Hearts-Kwasi-Boachi-Novel/dp/0375718893/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352056504&sr=1-1&keywords=arthur+japin
The Dinner
http://www.amazon.com/Dinner-Herman-Koch/dp/0770437850/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352056568&sr=1-1&keywords=herman+koch
Girlfriend in a Coma
http://www.amazon.com/Girlfriend-Coma-Novel-Douglas-Coupland/dp/006162425X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352056641&sr=1-1&keywords=Girlfriend+in+a+coma
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