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.
Careering by Daisy Buchanan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
careering (verb) 1. working endlessly for a job you used to love and now resent entirely 2. moving in a way that feels out of control *There's a fine line between on the right track and coming off the rails. Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, Imogen dreams o ...Show more
Em & Me by Beth Morrey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Delphine and Em have lost their way But what comes next is up to them… You can’t change your past – but your future is there for the taking Once upon a time, Delphine Jones had big dreams. Clever and ambitious, she was going to make her mark on the world. But somewhere along the line, it all went wrong… ...Show more
A Little Ray of Sunshine
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted--a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life--when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything.A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, ...Show more
Family Baggage by Ilsa Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Packing up her mother's life, George instead unpacks her own... A deeply insightful and wryly funny story perfect for readers of Meredith Jaffe and The Weekend by Charlotte Wood. Things you might be surprised to find when cleaning out your deceased mother's house: a secret diary a family mystery a new ...Show more
The Wakes by Dianne Yarwood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
A heartfelt, funny and uplifting debut about two failing marriages, two strangers falling in love, two friends embarking on a catering business - and the four funerals that connect them all This is a story about Clare, Louisa and Chris. And sometimes Paul, and less often, Beth. It is most certainly not ...Show more
Careering by Daisy Buchanan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
'We are so ready for this book. Exploring the exhausting push-pull of trying to pin down a career you love but that doesn't love you back, Buchanan's book is set to capture the zeitgeist as so many of us question where we're at' Stylist careering (verb) 1. working endlessly for a job you used to love ...Show more
Her Fidelity by Katharine Pollock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
A very funny confessional novel set in one of the only Australian independent record stores still functioning, if barely. This is High Fidelity with a female gaze. Her Fidelity is the comedic, confessional story of 29-year-old Kathy, who is in a state of arrested development. Kathy has accidentally cont ...Show more
Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society by Sophie Green
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly divorced Cynthia has returned to her home town from Los Angeles to reconnect with her 19-year-old daughter, who is pregnant and determined not to listen to her mother's advice. Cynthia's former best friend, Lorraine, has been stuck mowing lawns as part of a business she shares w ...Show more