Help me find a book please

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I'll be travelling more for work and would like a book to read on the plane/airport etc. I haven't read in years! I'm late 40's and used to like the James Herriot novels, Bill Bryson, some biographies and Carl Hiaasen fiction. Any ideas for something I might like?

This year I've read Forever Home by Erica James and Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, both of which are good stories and easy enough to remember where you where if you can’t go back to them for a couple of days but absorbing enough if you have a good long stretch to read in

A gentle sort of read? Maybe Gervase Phinn, Gerald Durell or David Sedaris?

Fiction maybe Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson?

Love David Sedaris and I’ve seen him live but for me I much prefer listening to his audio books or his shows on R4. How he narrates just makes the stories so much funnier for me? Perhaps my mental reading voice needs to up its game…

The Shardlake novels by C.J. Sansom are excellent. Great stories and very well written.

Louise Penny Three Pines Series

From the books you’ve said you like, I think you might like Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans, it’s very warm and witty. Or maybe Bourneville by Jonathan Coe which is funny and moving and lovely.

If you enjoy Carl Hiassen, you might like Ben Elton too. 'Blind Faith' , Past Mortem' , 'Time and Time Again' are all good but id recommend any of his really.

Thanks everyone. Some great ideas to investigate.

Ooh, I like the James Herriot books, too! I'm more into autobiographies, though... would you consider those? If you like farm related ones, Diary of a Pint-Sized Farmer, the first Yorkshire Shepherdess book, some of the previous Jeremy Clarkson ones (the last didn't contain much farming, and the one before featured more of the pub), etc. I also liked Catherine Coldstream's Cloistered (someone who became a Carmelite nun), Maria Compton's Out of Faith, Jasvinder Sangera's Shame, Tia Leving's A Well-Trained Wife, Lilia Tarawa's Daughter of Gloriavale, Tara Westover's Educated and Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit, to name but a few. Romy Hausmann's Dear Child was good (it's also a Netflix series). I recently finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle and I'm currently reading Surviving Scottish Slow Living.

As I have always been a big reader, I could go on and on and on!

Enjoy rediscovering reading, OP!