Grief & Loss

Find hope and healing as you walk through grief and navigate life after loss. This yearlong devotional journal offers Scripture-based comfort in a lonely and difficult season. If you've experienced loss, then you've had days when sorrow overshadows every step, nights when the pain seems all-consuming, and moments when you feel utterly alone in your grief. What if, in the...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 ‘The best memoir you will read all year’ — NICK HORNBY ‘A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken’ — GUARDIAN ‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ — ZADIE SMITH ‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ — MARIE CLAIRE The internationally bestselling author of Women Talking...

AS SHARED ON TIKTOK When Laura and Devon sat down to plan their honeymoon, Castellina in Chianti, Italy, was the obvious destination. Four months later, Laura found herself standing in a secret spot at the edge of the village watching the sunset. It would have been perfect, if Devon had been there with her. But Laura's fiancé, the love of...

As shared on TikTok When Laura and Devon sat down to plan their honeymoon, Castellina in Chianti, Italy, was the obvious destination. Four months later, Laura found herself standing in a secret spot at the edge of the village watching the sunset. It would have been perfect, if Devon had been there with her. But Laura's fiancé, the love of...

Goes down like a dirgeful beach read. —Harper's Magazine I almost died laughing. —ROZ CHAST My own departure would not be so bad if only Mr. Roberts could write the obit! —KAI BIRD From celebrated New York Times obituarist Sam Roberts, the art of the obit: Who we remember, how we forget, and where we find the true meaning in...

From Molly Potter, best-selling author of How Are You Feeling Today? and What's Worrying You?, comes a picture book for starting conversations with children about death, bereavement and what happens next. When someone dies, we can feel a whole host of different emotions, and explaining them to a child isn't so easy. This book uses clear, easy-to-understand language to answer...

Heaven: Why It Matters Here and Now Have we forgotten heaven? Bestselling author and pastor Brian Zahnd invites us to remember heaven, to experience and embrace the divine mystery of the spiritual realm in this lifetime. This slow and steady progression of a deeper Christian faith that draws us nearer to God—a "pilgrimage of the soul"—fosters in us a love...

The Australian nation has reached an impasse in Indigenous policy and practice, and fresh strategies and perspectives are required. Trapped by History highlights a fundamental issue that the Australian nation must confront to develop a genuine relationship with Indigenous Australians. The existing relationship between Indigenous people and the Australian state was constructed on the myth of an empty land –...

As a therapist, Dr. Sherry Walling knew all the "right" things to say to help people through grief. But when she lost her father and her brother within six months of each other, she learned how much our current thinking about grief has to change. "There is no precise GPS for getting through grief," says Dr. Walling. "And truth be...

The Luckiest Unlucky Couple by Alicia Shepard is a late-in-life love story that unfolds between two adventurers, only to have everything change dramatically. When he is cured, she is diagnosed, and what follows is a journey filled with resilience, courage, and the power of love. The story begins with Alicia (Lisa), a successful journalist and author in her late 50s....

The Grief Companion is a beautifully illustrated and heartfelt resource designed to gently guide and support you through the complexities of loss and grief. The book is divided into three chapters – Actions, Prompts, and Insights. Offering grounding thoughts, meaningful ideas for honouring your loved ones, and reliable resources to help navigate the shifting landscape of emotions. The book can...

I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can't remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably little is known about the eel, even today. What we...

A hopeful message - things really can get better. - Radio Times 'There is always hope, even when we cannot seem to seek it within ourselves.' From the best advice you'll ever get to the joy of crisps, the brilliant contributors to The Book of Hope will help you to find hope whenever you need it most. These 101 key...

A companion for anyone navigating the hardships of loss and uncertainty - Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged Grace In the end, there is so much love in this book - The Times An unflinching memoir exploring the realities of marriage, caregiving, how we die and how we grieve. After thirteen years together, Sarah Tarlow's husband Mark began to suffer...

My whole adult life, I have made a study of death. Sarah Tarlow has devoted her working life to the study of death, burial practices, and the rituals of grief. She is also a widow. Shortly after her appointment as the Chair of Archaeology at the University of Leicester, her partner Mark began to suffer from a bitter, drawn-out, and...

A stunning blend of the personal and professional, The Archaeology of Loss is Sarah Tarlow's first memoir. An accomplished archaeologist, much of Sarah's work is concerned with the ritual and belief behind the practice of grief. In 2012, she was awarded the Chair in Archaeology at the University of Leicester. But in the years that followed this appointment, Sarah's husband,...

If you are the girl, the woman who feels like she is never enough, that she will never be as strong, as good, as capable, I am here to tell you that you are enough. I am here to tell you that while it shouldn't have been your burden, you can write a different story. Stronger will change what you...

There is no aspect of Victorian death that does not make it into Judith Flanders's latest investigation into 19th-century life' - The Sunday Times 'Flanders writes with sharp intelligence and first-class scholarly attention to detail' - The Telegraph In Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally - to modern eyes - bizarre customs that...

Selected as one of The Oprah Daily's Best Books of 2022 An extraordinary gift of a book, a tender, searching meditation on love and loss and what it means to be human. I wept at it, laughed with it, was entirely fascinated by it. I emerged feeling a little as if the world around me had been made anew. -...

Why do we embalm the deceased? Why are funerals so expensive? Is there a reason coffins are shaped the way they are? Where does the tradition of viewing the body come from? Ceremonies for honouring the deceased are crucial parts of our lives, but few people know where our traditional practices come from—and what they reveal about our history, culture,...

From an acclaimed grief educator and the author of Second Firsts and Where Did You Go? comes a road map to recognize and heal the unspoken, often misunderstood experience of everyday loss, so you can finally reenter and live your life in full. "Compared to most, my problems are small. I should be happy with what I've got." Our inner...

'A tender appreciation of life's beauty' Matt Haig, The Guardian In How to Feel Better, bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shares the advice that has seen her through life's ups and downs. From her etiquette for bad news to the words of wisdom she would like to pass onto her son, How to Feel Better is full of warm, gentle guidance...

I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing. Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying, but in the meantime, life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be fed, and the perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother...

From psychotherapist and leading grief expert Meghan Riordan Jarvis comes answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about grief, offering hopeful real-world lessons and practical steps for navigating loss. If you've experienced the trauma of loss, you might find yourself struggling with the "whys" of grief: Why can't I remember anything? Why can't I sleep? Why do I...

'I want to eat everything in this book every single day for the rest of my life.' — James Acaster From Spaced and Hot Fuzz to Paul and Truth Seekers, Nick Frost has lit up our screens for decades with his perfectly observed, just-the-right-side-of-absurd sketches and films. He's also a keen, self-taught cook: so keen, in fact, that in lockdown,...

The top ten Sunday Times Bestseller Heartfelt and honest, A Life Reimagined is an emotional memoir of love, loss, and life after tragedy from beloved actress Jill Halfpenny. When Jill was four, her father died. He went to play his weekly game of five-a-side football, had a heart attack, and never came home. In 2017, in cruelly similar circumstances, Jill's...

For fans of How We Heal and Keep Moving, therapist and author of Already Enough, Lisa Olivera blends her own personal experience of battling depression with therapeutic wisdom in a moving exploration of the emotional pain each of us lives with, offering readers guidance on creating a life of presence and beauty not without it, but alongside the various aches...

A poetic and practical guide to grieving, healing and rebuilding your life after loss, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Stop Breaking Your Own Heart. A gentle guide to carrying your grief, reclaiming yourself and welcoming life back in. 'Meggan has an extraordinary ability to turn pain into purpose.' - Vex King When you're grieving the death...

Have you ever felt adrift and alone after losing a job, a dream, a loved one, or your sense of purpose in life? In The God Who Stays, Matthew West uses stories and Scripture to encourage you that wherever you are and whatever you’re going through, God is right by your side—and nothing can separate you from His love and...

In elderhood, the healthcare system has a narrow view of how to provide care. It focuses on extending a patient's life at all costs, with an over-reliance on machines and procedures, instead of caring holistically for the person. Accordingly, many of us will likely spend our final weeks in long-term care facilities or an ICU. Dying at home, peacefully, and...

New York Times best-selling author Caitlin Doughty presents the Titanic like never before: through the stories of those who died—and what happened to the bodies. Millions of people trust Caitlin Doughty to explore dark subjects with empathy and humour. Now, in her most ambitious work to date, Doughty explains what actually happened to the 1,500 people who died the night...

An inspiring guide to help you through the mourning process, including a comprehensive resource listing and a chapter on finding professional help and support groups. The most comprehensive, insightful, and helpful volume on loss and survival. - Rabbi Dr. Earl A. Grollman, author of Living When a Loved One Has Died Mourning the death of a loved one is a...

What if the wisest voice in the room wasn't human? Stay is a tender, funny, and unexpectedly profound book about love, grief, and everyday survival, told through the eyes of Buster, an ageing, observant, slightly opinionated dog who takes his job of staying very seriously. Through short, intimate chapters, Buster watches humans navigate loss, memory, change, and the strange rituals...

NPR SciFri Book Club Pick Next Big Idea Club's "Top 21 Psychology Books of 2022" Behavioural Scientist Notable Books of 2022 A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and coping with loss. In The Grieving Brain, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor,...

Grief isn't a problem to be solved – it's a teacher that shows up uninvited and refuses to leave until you've learned everything it has to offer. In You're Not Dead Yet, David Ferrugio, host of the acclaimed DEAD Talks Podcast with over one million followers, transforms his personal tragedy into a powerful exploration of life's most difficult moments. After...

An expert guide for providing empathetic end-of-life care for death doulas and related professionals Death doulas – trained, empathetic professionals who provide companionship, comfort, and guidance to the dying and their loved ones – are becoming increasingly common around the world. Their invaluable expertise is increasingly recognised as capable of transforming a deeply distressing experience into a still painful, but...

Examining principles, stakeholder perspectives, judicial positions, and international case studies, Assisted Dying offers the knowledge, context, and sensitivity to enable readers to critically engage with a great moral and legal problem of our time.

From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world, a moving and enchanting (Guardian) story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways. 'Not only is this a book that answers, fact for fact, everything you ever wanted to know about Pere-Lachaise but were afraid to ask, it is also...

Have you had a spiritual encounter? Do you believe in psychics? Do you want to connect with a loved one who has passed? Theresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium, host of Lifetime’s Raising Spirits and three-time New York Times bestselling author, teaches us how to ritualise and recover from the daily losses in our lives. Navigating our time on earth...

New York Times bestselling author Theresa Caputo, star of Long Island Medium and Raising Spirits, provides a guide to overcoming grief, filled with inspiring lessons from Spirit and astonishing stories from the clients who have been empowered and healed by her spiritual readings. After more than a decade of being a practicing medium, Theresa Caputo shares the powerful lessons she...

For readers of From Scratch and Marley and Me: After losing his beloved dog and nearly everything else, one man's accidental arrival in a remote Italian village leads to unexpected friendship, healing, and a new definition of home. One dog's love. One man's journey. When Matthew Sigman's beloved dog, Augie, died, his world fell apart. His boyfriend broke up with...

Can Good Things Come Out of Broken DreamsLife rarely goes according to plan. You pray for healing, for restoration, for a clear path forward, but sometimes the answer you receive isn’t the one you hoped to get. What do you do when God doesn’t seem to fix itIn this five-session video Bible study, Grammy Award-winning artist and author Laura Story...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES‘An act of intimate storytelling’ VOGUE‘A profound, rich document’ NEW STATESMANA deeply moving, newly discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. A pile of neatly typed pages was found in Joan Didion’s office after her death....

Yes, it has a quirky cover design that will appeal to certain sensibilities, but the contents of this peace-of-mind planner are no-nonsense.Use it to gather those vital details about your contacts, legal matters, health, financial affairs, instructions, and more. Enter the information in this guided planner, and keep it in a secure location.Valuable and practical, it is a tremendous gift...

You Are Never Alone: Hugs from Heaven is composed of compelling and inspirational true stories of hope, love, peace, suffering, healing, and joy—told through experiences with Guardian Angels. This uplifting work contains real-life, fascinating experiences shared by ordinary people about the signs they received from loved ones who have passed away. What sets this book apart is that each story...

Grief counselling and therapy have been revolutionised by the recognition that adaptive grieving commonly involves retaining bonds with the deceased rather than relinquishing them. However, guidelines for integrating this shift into professional practice have been scarce. In this groundbreaking volume, leading bereavement scholars Robert Neimeyer and Edith Steffen provide a rich trove of therapeutic procedures to help grieving clients preserve...

Grieving begins the moment someone near and dear to us is given a terminal illness prognosis or dies. Only then do we begin to face the losses we've carried all our lives. Unexpectedly, DiMauro's beloved younger brother, Jon, aged 58, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. Her close-knit family was heartbroken and in shock: Jon was...

A profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide. 'Suicides have a special language', Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to read? In The poetry of suicide, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his...

A wise and moving look at the most profoundly life-changing passage of all: losing our parents. Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a prolonged illness, and whether we were close to or estranged from them, this...

Take It to the Max: A True Story of Love, Signs, and the Unbreakable Bond Between Worlds is a deeply personal guide to navigating life's most challenging and unexpected moments. Drawing from her own journey of loving and caring for her young son, Max, through years of illness, Selima Maxine shares how to face uncertainty, fear, and heartbreak with resilience,...

Popular media is a powerful mirror and maker of meaning around suicide. Suicide in Popular Media and Culture brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine how suicide is mythologised, politicised and challenged across film, TV, young adult literature, digital platforms, online communities, and more. From news coverage of celebrity suicide to social media interventions with at-risk youth, this wide-ranging...

Why did Ludwig van Beethoven go deaf? What forced Robert Schumann to give up playing the piano? What possible familial trait caused Felix Mendelssohn's final illness? This volume examines the lives and deaths of these composers as well as Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, and Clara Schumann. By exploring the medical conditions that led to their deaths within the context of...

"A truly healing book." - Glen Lord, President, The Compassionate Friends Unthinkable. Unbelievable. Heartbreaking. Whatever words we choose, they all fall far short of the reality. The loss of a child is a terrible thing. Accidents. Disease. Suicide. School shootings. Murder. Natural disasters. War. No matter how or when, the death of a child (no matter what age) can shatter...

There’s this unspoken thing right? I dunno... I guess, this resistance to admitting that someone else’s trauma can be traumatising... Ria is a singer-songwriter. She’s talented. She’s ambitious. And she’s driven—quite literally—all the way from Lancashire to London, to start afresh in Camden Town. Charting the rise and fall of a rollercoaster relationship, Ria is recording her debut album with...

My father’s heart, and my mother’s, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They are still here. To stay together until the end was the deepest wish of Rebecca McClanahan’s elderly, frail parents. So when the two of them could no longer care for themselves, Rebecca and her siblings moved them from Indiana to North...

Find hope and comfort on your hard days (and the good ones too) when you realise that God Is With You Every Day. Do you sometimes wonder where God is in the midst of your daily battles with loneliness, grief, change, and doubts? New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado uses his signature reassuring and encouraging voice, paired with practical,...

The day after she buried her husband, Dr. Liz Fiedler Mergen found out she was pregnant and realised the hardest truth of all: Nobody was coming to save her. Flowers Bloom Anyway isn't a book about how to grieve the "right" way. It's about grieving messy, living loud, telling the truth even when it hurts, and planting beauty anyway. When...

New York Times Bestseller An intimate and evocative memoir about one woman’s experience with the universality of grief and the redemptive power of love as she endures her husband’s 84-day battle with lung cancer. When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger...

What happens when death becomes part of the journey of international migrants? Death in Migration examines how mortality is woven into the experience of displacement and migration. From perilous border crossings to the business of repatriation and contested burial grounds, it reveals the hidden geographies and politics that underpin the death of migrants in transit or abroad. Drawing together diverse...

Death and Funeral Practices in Norway provides a shortform definitive reference text on death and funeral practices in Norway as of the 2020s. This volume begins with a short introduction and historical overview, followed by a description of the demographics and legal framework, before featuring a range of chapters on governance and the funeral industry. Both religious and non‑religious funeral...

You were one of the lucky ones. You found a partner or friend with whom you shared a deeply profound connection. You understood, opened fully to, served, and challenged one another. You were the heroes of each other's lives. You lived a grand adventure together. But now that your partner has died, what felt like luck may have turned to...

In Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of how these foundational American writers and thinkers dealt with personal tragedies early in their careers. For Emerson, it was the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau,...

From New York Times bestselling author Kris Carr comes a transformational book about love, loss, and all the life-changing insights we receive when we embrace them. A few years ago, Kris Carr's world was falling apart. Her father was dying, she had to pivot her business because of the pandemic, and she was on the verge of reaching her twenty-year...

In this extraordinary 1959 interview, Carl Gustav Jung speaks with disarming lucidity about death, God, dreams, and the psyche's hidden depths. Reflecting on his break with Freud, his childhood visions, and the moral crises of the modern world, Jung issues a stark warning: that humanity's greatest threat lies within.

In 1997, the murder of her daughter Ciara left a mother and her family shattered by grief. Ciara's Gift, expressed with honesty and insight, is the story of the mother's often lonely search for meaning after this cruel and devastating event. In a series of deeply moving and thought-provoking memories and reflections, Una Glennon weaves us through the shadowland of...

Powerful tools grounded in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help when you feel like there is no hope, and painful and overwhelming thoughts take over. If you are considering The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook for yourself, know right now that you are valuable and your life matters. If you are considering the book for someone you care about, know that you...

Featuring 20 narratives from women who have lost their mother but still feel her presence in their lives, this book supports your journey of grief and spiritual connection. Mother loss is unique and significant. Written by a therapist and healer who truly understands this loss, The Eternal Bond helps healthcare professionals and adult daughters understand and empower those who are...

How we do dying and death really matters. This affects not only the one who is dying, but all who are touched by his or her journey. I hope this small book can help in reclaiming our understanding of death as a natural process, and one more affected by our own choices than we may imagine. Soul Midwife’s Journal by...

With these self-care and mindfulness practices, discover a path through the uncharted, invisible territory of grief and learn how you can change, grow and heal through the different types of losses in life. Grounded in author Heather Stang’s expertise and heartfelt desire to relieve suffering, Navigating Loss explores the invisible, often minimised, nature of grief in a variety of losses,...

For help in dealing with a suicidal crisis right now, please call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. If you love someone who has suicidal thoughts, you may struggle with profound fear of saying or doing the wrong thing. You desperately want to help, but you’re unsure of where to start. Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts...

“An essential guide for anyone experiencing loss.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Life Grief is a journey that can lead to powerful, personal growth. With contributions from grief experts Russ Harris, Alexandra Kennedy, Sameet Kumar, Mary Beth Williams, and Soili Poijula, this thoughtful compilation will help you heal the pain of loss—no matter the cause—and move forward in...

This book offers a new understanding of the grief process. Readers will learn about the spiral staircase, a metaphor used to describe the ebb and flow of emotional pain that typically follow loss. Grieving Mindfully offers ways to cope with the events and situations that trigger personal grief by using mindfulness exercises and radical acceptance, a concept that encourages the...

John Welshons weaves together his own personal awakening with those of others he's counselled to create a deeply felt and beautifully expressed primer on dealing with grief. Grieving, says Welshons, "offers a unique opportunity to develop deeper and fuller life experiences, to embrace pain in order to open the heart to joy". Written for those who have experienced any kind...

Speaking to readers who are struggling to navigate end-of-life healthcare, Your Good Death presents both personal stories and research-based strategies capable of shaping key questions that could revolutionize the course of their care—even while healthy. While most Americans say they prefer to die at home, only about a third will experience that outcome. One in four people find themselves caregiving,...

FROM THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I’m Still Here: A Dog’s Purpose Forever, a beautifully illustrated, comforting gift for anyone grieving a beloved cat—told from the clever, loving voice of an angel cat who gently reminds you: your bond is forever. Losing a cat—the most discerning and self-possessed of beings—means losing a companion who chose you, trusted you, and made...

An international bestseller that redefines the boundaries between science and spirituality with a bold thesis: there is life after death, and science can prove it. Renowned Spanish surgeon Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra was once a sceptic. That all changed when he encountered patients who had been clinically dead—without cardiac, respiratory or brain activity—and yet returned, reporting vivid and inexplicable experiences...

How animals conceive of death and dying and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality. When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralysed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can...

Thirty-six Memento Mori cards are daily affirmations to seize the day and live each moment to its fullest. Contemplating memento mori, Latin for 'remember you will die', helps us diminish our fear of death and encourages us to embrace life more fully in the here and now. Each message in the Memento Mori card deck guides us to love those...

'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity' THE TIMES 'As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER' GUARDIAN A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. For years as an award-winning...

Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular and beige life, and it worked. It was a warm beige. We felt, and were, blessed and lucky. Normal. On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin's beloved twenty-three-year-old son, Hersh, was stolen from a music festival billed as...