A feel-good page turner please!

[TheCornishPickle]

I'm reading a lot at the moment - kindle during night feeds! - but a lot of the stuff I've read has been getting me down a bit and sending me back to bed with a racing mind! I'm looking for recommendations for books that won't give me nightmares - but I don't like chick lit or holiday-read types of books. Other than that I'm open to suggestion!

Maeve Binchey. Best brain in neutral tell me a story with a happy ending writer ever! And if it's on the Kindle nobody need ever know!

How do you feel about non-fiction? I found John O'Farrell's An Utterly Impartial History of Britain interesting, funny and very easy to dip in and out of. I wasn't quite so enamoured of the sequel however.

Ok Seeker which one do you recommend I start with? I read and enjoyed Circle of Friends years ago.

As for non-fiction it would really have to have plenty of personality and humour to keep me going - all I've ever read really is Bill Bryson. I'd like him to be my dad! Also like light sociology type stuff - read one I think was called Watching the English which I loved if that helps at all ?!

What about Lesely Pearse. I recently found a couple of her books in a box of second hand books I was given and I was really surprised. I wouldn't have picked them off the shelf as I thought they were a bit Catherine Cookson, but I really enjoyed them. "Never look back" is a a good one.

the womens murder club series by james patterson are brill, short chapters too :)

Ooh if you haven't yet read the Shopaholic series by Sophie kinsella then do! Fun and very easy reading. Love them.

Bill Bryson is not suitable to read in public - You WILL laugh like a Loon.

TheCornishPickle- it doesn't matter- they are all wonderful- like a sofa and a glass of red wine in front of the fire on a winter night! I think Firefly Summer might be my favourite, but she's never written a bad one.

I recently read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and loved it but probably not everyone's cup of tea. It's quite whimsical.

The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden. And Rosamunde Pilcher (I particularly like Coming Home; not sure how 'feelgood' it is but it isn't heavy).

Phil Rickman is fabulous, bit scary though, but GOOD scary.

For page turning goodness you cannot go far wrong with Charlaine Harris and the Sookie Stackhouse series.

And there is always Terry Pratchett, very good for the soul.

Dorothy Dunnett is THE best for historical fiction, her plots will leave your jaw on the ground.

Kate Morton........................she has written just three books I loved all three.

Rosamund pilcher. I've just read the shell seekers And am currently on 'coming home'. Lovely gentle stuff, occasional sad bits but good reading.

Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnhem

Not exactly page turners, but when I was doing night feeds and not wanting to get too excited I used to read the Jeeves books by P G Wodehouse - gentle, but amusing and great stories.

I'm currently enjoying 'Discovery of Witches' by Deborah Harkness. (so far, about an academic researcher who's a witch and disenchants an old book in the Bodleian that daemons and vampires want to get hold of). Mixed reviews but a 'page-turner' so far!

'Enchanted April' - was that the book written by a mumsnetter? Is it you carlajean? Come on, fess up

I have just discovered the Dr. Siri series which I think are utterly fantastic without being saccarhine. I like Inspector Montalbano series for same sorts of reasons.

Non fiction I would vouch for The Year of Living Biblically, especially enjoyed the bit when he talks the ears off of a Jehovah's Witness.

Anything by Margaret Forster and The Help (can't remember author but it's on Amazon - couldn't put it down and see the film too which is really good.