488 Rules for Life - The Thankless Art of Being Correct by Kitty Flanagan
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
RICHARD GLOVER: ''You won’t agree with all her rules – I, for one, am a great believer in the word “pash” – but there is a good laugh, and a lively argument, to be had on every page.'' 488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Applying truth and wit to ...Show more
Remainders of the Day - More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the ant ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
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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
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
If there is any solace in growing older, it is that you will find yourself guffawing in hysterical recognition at the situations Nora Ephron describes, from the impossibility of trying to remember people's names at parties, to struggling with the new technology. You will find yourself rolling off the so ...Show more
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog by Emily Dean
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
The funny, heart-breaking story of love, family and overwhelming loss which led one woman to find hope and healing in the dog she always wanted. 'We would never be a dog family. People with dogs represented every aspect of domesticity that seemed right and functional. We represented everything about fa ...Show more
Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By by David Mitchell
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, horsemeat lasagne to Trump in the White House: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles the dumbfounding times we live in.
Acknowledgments: Stories of Friends, Enemies and Figuring Things Out by Becky Lucas
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
From critically acclaimed comedian Becky Lucas comes a funny, consoling and very candid collection of stories and essays about friends, enemies and figuring it out that establishes her as one of today's most original comedy writers. There's no such thing as a perfect life, but there are perfectly hilari ...Show more
Full Bore by William McInnes
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
A chance encounter in an auction house is the jumping-off point for William's inimitable take on our sport-obsessed nation, Australian popular culture and the artefacts and memorabilia that both make us cringe with recognition and laugh with warm affection. His trademark humour and anecdotes litter this ...Show more
Made in Scotland by Billy Connolly
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction | Reading Level: 3 Biography
All roads lead home.'After my knighthood was announced,a woman from the BBC came toGlasgow to interview me. We satdown in a lovely hotel in a nice partof town, and she hit me with her firstquestion- "This must mean a lot toyou, with you coming from nothing?"I looked at her, and I laughed."I did?nae come ...Show more
Senior Moments: The Complete Guide on How To Be Senior by Kevin Brumpton; Angus Fitzsimons
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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
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents ...Show more
Best Foot Forward by Adam Hills
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Category: Feel Good Non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
*The Sunday Times Bestseller* A hilarious and honest collection of stories, thoughts, and tales of a life in comedy from the presenter of The Last Leg, Adam Hills Adam Hills is one the UK's best-loved comedians. For thirty years he has been performing stand-up, hosting TV shows and winning the hearts of ...Show more