Feel Good Reads
American humourist P.J. O'Rourke once said, "Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." But sometimes we simply feel like reading something other than all those worthy and impressive literary award winners - something lighter but still well-written, something wonderfully witty which makes us laugh out loud, or maybe just a cracking good adventure. So for all of you who wander in and tell us that you're looking for something different to read, but you don't really know what you want; or who need something for a friend in hospital; or a book to take on holiday; or just something to escape from the grimness of the nightly news - we are delighted to present a new area in our bookshop entitled "Feel-Good Reads."
Titles include both fiction and non-fiction options - beloved classics from P.G. Wodehouse, Barbara Pym, and Nancy Mitford; hilarious travel narratives from Bill Bryson; amusing essays from David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs; modern Australian classics from John Clarke, Shane Maloney, and Thea Astley; plus many more from Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions to Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series; from Alexander McCall-Smith's warm and witty Scottish tales to Paul Carter's gripping and often hilarious true-life adventures.
We will also be promoting Feel-Good Friday where we will feature a chosen title from these shelves and posting on facebook, twitter and instagram so keep an eye out for your next great read.
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Non-fiction | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor | Reading Level: very good
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more
The Other Bridget by Rachael Johns
$34.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Named after a famous fictional character, librarian Bridget Jones was raised on a remote cattle station, with only her mother's romance novels for company. Now living alone in Fremantle, Bridget is a hopeless romantic. She also believes that anyone who doesn't like reading just hasn't met the right book ...Show more
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
"'Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right'i>eople have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it's only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions a ...Show more
Joy Moody is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
On her twin daughters' twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody - proprietor of Bayside's premier laundromat - is found dead. Yet that is not the strangest thing happening behind the bright pink facade of Joyful Suds.For much of their lives, Joy has been telling Cassie and Andie one big, fat lie- that they are ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
Audrey's Gone AWOL by Annie de Monchaux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
It’s never too late to reinvent your life Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family life for the best part of 40 years, but lately she’s become aware that she lost herself somewhere between 'I do' and the weekly shop. Worse, her academic husband Simon has found time for romance – just not w ...Show more
Bitter & Sweet by Amal Awad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
The lake in the middle of her father's kitchen is only the first in a series of disasters in Zeina's life. Nassar's recent health crisis has seen his well-established community restaurant, Casablanca, losing ground and customers to trendier competition. Casablanca's deterioration is not the only chaos i ...Show more
All the Words We Know by Bruce Nash
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A wickedly funny and genuinely moving debut novel perfect for fans of Richard Osman and The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Jumped Out the Window. "In the beginning is the whatsitsname. The woman in the car park. She wears a nightgown and lies on her back, looking up at the sky. The nightgown is white and ...Show more
Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T Matthews
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
In this sisterly PS, I Love You, an introverted young woman is saddled with fulfilling her late sister’s final wish and completing her bucket list while millions of people follow along online. Jodie Boyd is a shy and anxious twenty-something, completely unsure of what to do with her life. Meanwhile, h ...Show more
Play with Me (#2 Playing for Keeps) by Becka Mack
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: Playing For Keeps
Play with me: I’m the star right winger for the Vancouver Vipers, an unstoppable force, fast as lightning. My dream come true, and I’ve worked my whole life to get here. I don’t plan on giving it up, but if I want to keep playing hockey, I’m going to need all my limbs. To ensure my body parts stay intac ...Show more
Happy Place: A shimmering new novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry by Emily Henry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth, bec ...Show more
The Library of Heartbeats: A sweeping, heart-rending novel from the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Reads
From the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: a powerful, moving novel of grief, hope, friendship and love based around a real archive on an island in Japan, where people travel to record their heartbeats.To find what you have lost, you must listen to your heart . ...Show more