Mood-boosting Books

The Big Over Easy »

Jasper Fforde

Big Stone Gap: A Novel »

Adriana Trigiani

Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy »

Philippa Perry, Junko Graat

Haroun and the Sea of Stories »

Salman Rushdie, Paul Birkbeck

Hector and the Search for Happiness »

Francois Lelord, Lorenza Garcia

Life According to Lubka »

Laurie Graham

Life with the Lid Off »

Nicola Hodgkinson

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand »

Helen Simonson

Being Human: The Companion Anthology to Staying Alive and Being Alive »

Neil Astley

A Little History of the World »

Ernst H. Gombrich

Men at Work »

Mike Gayle

Notes from a Small Island »

Bill Bryson

Prodigal Summer »

Barbara Kingsolver

The Pursuit of Love »

Nancy Mitford, Zoe Heller

Smoke and Mirrors »

Neil Gaiman

A Spot of Bother »

Mark Haddon

Tackling Life »

Charlie Oatway

That Awkward Age »

Roger McGough

To the Moon and Back »

Jill Mansell

A Winter Book: Selected Stories »

Tove Jansson

Tales of the City »

Armistead Maupin

Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain »

Roger Deakin

The Secret Garden »

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Peter Hunt

The Beach Cafe »

Lucy Diamond

Cider with Rosie »

Laurie Lee

Trouble on the Heath »

Terry Jones

Stop What You're Doing and Read This! »

Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen, Zadie Smith, Carmen Callil, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Parks, Blake Morrison, Maryanne Wolf, Nicholas Carr, Jane Davis