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Death, Dying & Grief -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book You Are Not Alone: A New Way to Grieve by Cariad Lloyd
    You Are Not Alone: A New Way to Grieve - by Cariad Lloyd

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781526621870 | ISBN 10: 1526621878

    NEW STATESMAN, THE TIMES AND EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023  'Full of sense, heart and hope . . . the friend you need when you're grieving' PHILIPPA PERRY 'This book is a game-changer. Read it before you need to' DR KATHRYN MANNIX 'It's hone ... more

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  • Cover image of book Getting Better: Life Lessons on Going Under, Getting Over It, and Getting Through It by Michael Rosen
    Getting Better: Life Lessons on Going Under, Getting Over It, and Getting Through It - by Michael Rosen

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781529148909 | ISBN 10: 1529148901

    The stunning new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Many Different Kinds of Love.  A Guardian book of 2023 A BBC book of 2023  'If I could prescribe Getting Better to the entire nation, I would... It's a book that inspires ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
    A Heart That Works - by Rob Delaney

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399710886 | ISBN 10: 1399710885

    In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the question of purpose for those left behind.  When you’re a parent and your child gets hurt or sick, you ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is by Paul Stanbridge
    My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is - by Paul Stanbridge

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913111267 | ISBN 10: 1913111261

    In My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is, the extraordinary follow-up to his prize-winning novel Forbidden Line, Paul Stanbridge tells us about remarkable things.  He tells us about the plains of Doggerland, lost under the North Sea.  He tells us abou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Notes on Grief - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £10.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008470302 | ISBN 10: 0008470308

    A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.   'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radical Acts of Love: Twenty Conversations to Inspire Hope at the End of Life by Janie Brown
    Radical Acts of Love: Twenty Conversations to Inspire Hope at the End of Life - by Janie Brown

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786899033 | ISBN 10: 1786899035

    A profoundly moving account of an oncology nurse’s conversations with the dying.  In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse and counsellor, offers a sensitive and wise insight into our final moments by recounting twenty convers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Advice for the Dying (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death by Sallie Tisdale
    Advice for the Dying (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death - by Sallie Tisdale

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781760632717 | ISBN 10: 1760632716

    Award-winning writer and nurse Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking yet practical perspective on death and dying in this frank, direct and compassionate meditation on the inevitable.   From the sublime to the ridiculous, Tisdale lead ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Living: Life
    On Living: Life's Greatest Lessons and Last Thoughts from the Dying - by Kerry Egan

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241297292 | ISBN 10: 024129729x

    What are the greatest regrets of the dying?   At her patients' bedside, witnessing their final moments, this is what Kerry Egan discovers. How do the dying seek to making meaning of their lives, the people and moments that have shaped them; an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Meatless Days by Sara Suleri
    Meatless Days - by Sara Suleri

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241342466 | ISBN 10: 0241342465

    "Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read"(Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction) Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebellious Mourning: The Collected Works Of Grief by Cindy Milstein (Editor)
    Rebellious Mourning: The Collected Works Of Grief - by Cindy Milstein (Editor)

    £16.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849352840 | ISBN 10: 1849352844

    We can bear almost anything when it is worked through collectively. Grief is generally thought of as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lessen the power of the forces that debilitate us, while at the same tim ... more

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  • Cover image of book You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris, translated by Sam Taylor
    You Will Not Have My Hate - by Antoine Leiris, translated by Sam Taylor

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784705282 | ISBN 10: 1784705284

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER   What matters most in life? How do you build a happy life when terrible things happen? What is left behind when you lose the person you love the most?  One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was at home looking aft ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Way We Die Now by Seamus O
    The Way We Die Now - by Seamus O'Mahony

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784974282 | ISBN 10: 1784974285

    We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, vict ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Jihad for Love by Mohamed El Bachiri with David van Reybrouck
    A Jihad for Love - by Mohamed El Bachiri with David van Reybrouck

    £5.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786698001 | ISBN 10: 1786698005

    Mohamed El-Bachiri is a driver on the Brussels metro rail system. He grew up and lives in the suburb of Molenbeek, notorious as the place from which a number of Belgian jihadis have come. He is also the husband of Loubna Lafquiri, the love of his lif ... more

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  • Cover image of book Latest Readings by Clive James
    Latest Readings - by Clive James

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300213195 | ISBN 10: 0300213190

    In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do,” James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would “live, ... more

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  • Cover image of book You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Break-up, Divorce or Death by Louise L. Hay and David Kessler
    You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Break-up, Divorce or Death - by Louise L. Hay and David Kessler

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781802441 | ISBN 10: 1781802440

    In You Can Heal Your Heart, self-help luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler, the protégé of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, have come together to start a conversation on healing grief. This remarkable book discusses the emotions ... more

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  • Cover image of book Speaking of Dying: A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care by Louis Heyse-Moore
    Speaking of Dying: A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care - by Louis Heyse-Moore

    £18.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843106784 | ISBN 10: 1843106787

    Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two ... more

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  • Cover image of book Do Not Go Gentle: Poems for Funerals by Neil Astley (editor)
    Do Not Go Gentle: Poems for Funerals - by Neil Astley (editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781852246358 | ISBN 10: 1852246359

    This wide-ranging selection combines popular choices of traditional poems read at funerals with powerful poems by contemporary writers more tuned to our present age of doubt & disbelief.. There are poems here for churchgoers and believers, including ... more

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  • Cover image of book Death, Dying and Bereavement by Donna Dickenson et al (editors)
    Death, Dying and Bereavement - by Donna Dickenson et al (editors)

    £29.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780761968573 | ISBN 10: 0761968571

    By drawing together information, reflection and experience, this authoritative text will broaden understanding of a subject area that western society is accused of denying. This collection combines academic research with professional and personal re ... more

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