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.
The Grade Cricketer: Tea and No Sympathy by Ian Higgins; Dave Edwards; Sam Perry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
The brilliantly funny new novel featuring The Grade Cricketer, hero of the bestselling cult classic The Grade Cricketer.
Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Marian Keyes meets Love Actually in this fresh, funny and gloriously romantic Australian novel that has sold all around the world.In this sparkling romantic comedy, a young journalist tampers with her magazine's horoscopes to win her friend's heart - and sets in motion an unpredictable and often hilario ...Show more
Losing the Plot by Elizabeth Coleman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Funny, charming and captivating, with a plot within a plot, and a girl who is looking for love in all the wrong places. Vanessa Rooney is a thirty-something dental hygienist who finds herself a single mum with a hole in her heart where her husband had been. Somehow she finds the courage to fulfil her ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$25.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: VMC | Reading Level: good
Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, she often gets herself embroiled in o ...Show more
The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
'Lively ...a joy to read' - The Times Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize From the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate ...Show more
Cat's Cradle: Masterworks by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Experiment. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. ...Show more
The Switch by Beth O'Leary
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Eileen is sick of being 79.Leena's tired of life in her twenties.Maybe it's time they swapped places...When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly s ...Show more
How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Life is always better backstage, isn't it?The Sunday Times Number One bestseller about a young woman making it in a world where men hold all the power.I'm Johanna Morrigan, and I live in London in 1995, at the epicentre of Britpop. I might only be nineteen, but I'm wise enough to know that everyone arou ...Show more
Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling by Emer McLysaght, Sarah Breen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: The\Aisling Ser.
'THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WORDS FOR HOW MUCH I LOVE IT' MARIAN KEYES The hilarious new romantic comedy Once, Twice, Three times an Aisling - the third book in the No. 1 bestselling Aisling series. Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled. But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-up - she's fl ...Show more
Love Letters from Paris by Nicolas Barreau
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
'Enchanting. Reading Barreau is like having me-time with your best friend' NINA GEORGE, author of The Little Paris Bookshop 'Heart-breaking . . . touching and magical until the very last page' ELLE Julien Azoulay is famous around the world for his beautiful romance novels. But last year, he stopped be ...Show more
Senior Moments: The Complete Guide on How To Be Senior by Kevin Brumpton; Angus Fitzsimons
$29.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
Have you had a Senior Moment yet? Maybe you know someone who's had a few? Check this list to know for sure: You can remember being told the King was dead (George, not Elvis). You still say 'colour television', and you watch television on a television. Your home phone rings and you answer it. (And y ...Show more
Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
From the author of The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club and The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle comes a delightful new novel about friendship, love and finding yourself. Far North Queensland, 1993: At 74, former cane farmer Grace Maud is feeling her age, and her isolation, and thinks ...Show more