Best Wishes: The funny new book from the bestselling, much loved and eternally hopeful author of The Land Before Avocado and Flesh Wounds

Best Wishes is a book by Richard Glover that celebrates the power of wishful thinking and encourages readers to appreciate the simple joys in life. It has been longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awards and has received positive reviews from critics, including Lisa Millar, Tom Ballard, Jean Kittson, Jacinta Parsons, and Tommy Dean. The book is a plea for a better world, one wish at a time.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 04 October 2023
Publisher: ABC Books

Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INDIE BOOK AWARDS

I wish I could think, hope, laugh, dream, and indeed, write like Richard Glover. And I wish every Australian could read this book. A soaring tribute to the power of wishful thinking

Trent Dalton

Glover asks life's big questions and helps us celebrate the simple joys - bin night, tax receipts that don't fade, and the secret thrill of high-pressure hosing

Lisa Millar, co-host ABC-TV's News Breakfast

Charming, funny, and sincere, this is yet another winning book from the only Boomer worth listening to. A triumph!

Tom Ballard, comedian

He is right about leaf blowers, for example, but quite wrong about breakfast in bed. Richard's view of the world will frequently have you punching the air and shouting, "Yes!"

Jean Kittson, performer, writer, and comedian

If life is better when we laugh, then this book is the balm.

Jacinta Parsons, broadcaster, writer, and co-host of ABC Melbourne's Friday Revue

There is an eternal hopefulness in all this man does. I only wish more of his wishes were granted.

Tommy Dean, comedian, and regular on ABC 702's Thank God It's Friday

Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans, and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers, and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you think the world would be a better place if people got back their sense of humor?

Here's proof you are not alone. Heartfelt and hilarious, serious but sly, Best Wishes is the encyclopedia of can do better. It's a plea for a better world - one wish at a time.

Weight: 382g
Dimension: 234 x 154 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780733343100