Any ideas for a colour related book?

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Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford

Victoria Finley, travels through the paintbox

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

Quite a few hours of my life I won’t get back there ...

Blood orange - a good read!

White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hathorne
The Greengage Summer, Rumer Godden (clearly the last one is a cheat, but I love the book!)

Thanks OP! Just noticed you’d replied with the list

Chrome Yellow - Aldous Huxley

Anne of green gables
Red tent

I enjoyed 'The girl in the red coat'

Orange is not the only fruit.

The land of green ginger, The Bluest eye, when hitler stole pink rabbit, black water

You may be the first person on here who’s also heard of The Land of Green Ginger, @toomuchsplother. My party piece is that I can recite the spell that turns the magician back to himself, from memory. It isn’t much, but it is my talent!

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius I am aware of that Land of Green ginger but I was actually thinking of the Winnifred Holtby book by the same name. Odd that there are 2 books with the same name!!

Very odd, @toomuchsplother!

Oh read The Colour. One of my all time favourite books.

SDTG Land of Green Ginger was one of my favourite childhood books (and The Phantom Tollbooth). I got new copies for dd and she loved them. We used to use 'boomalakka wee' as an exclamation.

I always want to add ‘like a donkey who has sat on a pin’ whenever someone says ‘like an arrow from a bow’, @Jux.

‘The colour of Bee Larkham’s murder.’ That’s a quirky read!

I’m probably a bit late but Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is fantastic.