What is Reading Well?
Reading Well supports you to understand and manage your health and wellbeing using helpful reading. Reading Well books are all recommended by health experts, as well as people with lived experience of the topics covered, and their relatives and carers.
Introducing a new collection of books specially designed to support families.
The new Reading Well for Families collection contains helpful reading for parents and carers in pregnancy and the early years. The books provide information and guidance on mental health, wellbeing, coping with loss, and more. They're all available to borrow for free from the Library. Click the titles below to find out more.
- Break Free from Maternal Anxiety
- Coping with Birth Trauma and Postnatal Depression
- How to Help Someone with Postnatal Depression
- Hello Baby, Goodbye Intrusive thoughts
- My Black Motherhood
- Why Birth trauma matters
- What have I done?
- Loving you from here
- The Worst Girl Gang ever
- No one talks about this stuff
- How to help someone after a miscarriage
- The Little book of New Mum feelings
- Mindful new mum
- You the daddy
- Autistic and expecting
- Having a baby
- OMG It’s twins
- Surviving Solo Motherhood
- The Queer Parent
- Nobody told me
Here are some of the other book lists available:
- Reading Well for Mental Health
- Reading Well for Dementia
- Reading Well Bereavement Book Guide