Views From Convalescent Hill Book Collection

In April 2024, Pier Projects collaborated with Suffolk Libraries to develop a bespoke collection of books that explore themes of health, wellbeing, rest and care. Comprising both adult nonfiction and fiction titles, the books were carefully selected and cover a range of themes and ideas - both historical and contemporary - that explore mental and physical health; -Environment and Geography: blue spaces and the context of the coast -Mental Wellness: depression, anxiety and trauma recovery -Physical Well Being; sleep, walking, open water swimming, rest -Community Health and Care The books are available to borrow from Felixstowe Library. Non-Fiction: • The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age, Claudia Hammond • Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence, Dr Gavin Francis • Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker • Being Mortal: Illness and Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande • Blue Spaces: How and Why Water Can Make You Feel Better, Dr Catherine Kelly • Blue Mind: How Water Makes you Happier, More Connected and Better at What you Do, Wallace J Nicols • Why We Swim, Bonnie Tsui • Rest is Resistance, Tricia Hersey • Radical Help, Hilary Cottam • How to Thrive in the Next Economy, John Thakara • The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk • Inflamed, Rupa Marya, Raj Patel • Mad World, Misha Frazer-Caroll • From What Is to What If, Rob Hopkins • The Salt Path, Raynor Wynn • Finding Hildasay, Christian Lewis Fiction: • What You Are Looking For is in the Library, Michiko Aoyama • Eleanor Olliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman •The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce •The Stranding, Kate Sawyer • The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club, Katie May