Grief & Loss

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....

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...

A compassionate resource for friends, parents, relatives, teachers, volunteers, and caregivers, this series offers suggestions to help the grieving cope with the loss of a loved one. Often people do not know what to say, or what not to say, to someone they know who is mourning; this series teaches that the most important thing a person can do is...

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. When referencing the title,...

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...

The bestselling and unforgettable memoir about fertility, family, grief and love - now with a bonus chapter - from the creator of Darling, Shine! "I'm not going to tell you that everything happens for a reason. Those words are cold comfort in any traumatic moment. This is what I will say, though: I see you. I hear you. I am...

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...

A heart-warming and moving memoir from one of Britain's best-loved writers and journalists that will resonate with dog lovers and dog owners everywhere. Nobody will ever love you like a dog. Nobody will ever be as consistently happy to see you. Nobody will ever make you so glad to be alive. It all started when Tony's daughter Yasmin wanted a...

A memoir of devastating honesty, warmth, and unexpected grace about raising children while learning how to live with what love leaves behind. On a family holiday meant to create lasting memories, everything changes in an instant. When a sudden medical crisis strikes in New York, Paul Folino-Gallo finds himself in a hospital room facing the unimaginable. His sons Giorgio, eight,...

"An inspiring tale, brimming with can-do and positivity." - Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator "A tender, human adventure that reveals what can unfold when you honour a promise and keep paddling forwards." - Alastair Humphreys, author of Microadventures From the bestselling author of Moderate Becoming Good Later comes the hopeful, honest, and humorous story of one woman's attempt...

Death is a certainty, but what happens in the lead-up—and in its aftermath—is anything but predictable. Nobody knows this better than those who work with death every day. There's no time for an existential crisis when your 9-to-5 involves responding to fatal plane accidents, transporting organs for urgent surgery, or fending off a dying man's request for Nickelback. In this...

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...

Between ancient prophecies and breaking headlines, the end times can feel like a giant puzzle with missing pieces. In this book, the hosts of the Faith & Friction podcast dig into Scripture with curiosity, humour, and a healthy dose of real talk, unpacking what's unfolding now and what could be coming next. When the Faith and Friction crew were invited...

You Believe in Eternity. So Why Does Life Still Feel This Heavy? You believe the right things. You've kept going, even when faith has felt more like a burden than a lifeline. But when life disappoints, you spiral. When the hard thing hits, you can't find solid ground. And if you're honest, most of your mood is shaped by how...

Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries and Mixed charts her unexpected role as her terminally ill mother's caretaker in this funny, moving, and unforgettable memoir. Angela Nissel always wanted her mother’s approval. But two defining events created a barrier between them: renouncing Christianity and being admitted to a psychiatric ward—events that mirrored failed parenting...

What does it mean to grieve a child lost to an act of terrorism? Trauma, Grief, and Remembrance in the Aftermath of Terrorism offers a powerful and deeply human exploration of traumatic bereavement, grounded in parents' first-hand accounts of losing a child to political violence. Drawing on research in France, the book explores how such loss disrupts meaning, time, and...

Society doesn't always make it easy to tell stories about loss. Grief can make us feel that we have crossed over to another side, where people can't reach us and we can't reach others. We're encouraged to move quickly through the often-misunderstood "stages of grief"; we fear that we are burdening others with our pain. But pain can feel more...

A profound and deeply personal exploration of pain, the body, and loss by the beloved author of Bluets and The Argonauts. It's not the dream that matters, it's the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind. This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself...

A profoundly moving memoir of caregiving, mourning, and love between a mother and her son—and about the joy of reading, and the ways that joy is multiplied when we share it with others. “A graceful, affecting testament to a mother and a life well lived.” —Entertainment Weekly, Grade A During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief—featuring a new afterword by the author. “A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with...

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns. For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.” — Lucy Kalanithi NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post,...

No one who reads this book will ever forget it — Meg Mason An absolute masterclass and truth-bomb … I think many people will be shaken awake by this book — Emma Gannon In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big...

'Fascinating' Observer 'Engrossing' i News 'Elegant' Sunday Telegraph 'Profound and poignant' Sunday Post 'Remarkable and complex' George McGavin A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community, and the climate crisis in the Shetland Islands by environmental journalist Marianne Brown. The Shetland Way offers a fascinating insight into a unique place that holds past and future in uneasy tension, written with clarity...

The classic guide for dealing with grief and loss. Daily reflections to find solace in our own lives, and comfort in the connection of sharing these meditations with countless others. After the focus on planning and the outpouring of love from family and friends in the immediate aftermath following the loss of a loved one, we are left to enter...

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...

Partly a counselling model and partly an explanation of true empathy, this handbook explores the ways companionship eases grief. For caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and family just hoping to stay close, 11 tenets are outlined for mourner-led care. These simple rules call for understanding another person's pain, listening with the heart rather than the head,...

There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to society, then it is Suicide: Why does it happen? What goes...

This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial. Twenty years after the first natural burial ground opened, there is an opportunity to reflect on how a concept for a very different approach to caring for our dead has become a reality: new providers, new landscapes and a hybrid of new and traditional rituals. In this...

This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings, and realities of natural burial. Twenty years after the first natural burial ground opened, there is an opportunity to reflect on how a concept for a very different approach to caring for our dead has become a reality: new providers, new landscapes, and a hybrid of new and traditional rituals. In this...

Intellectually and visually stimulating, this important landmark book looks at the religious, political, social and artistic significance of the Imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It traces the evolutionary development of the most elaborately beautiful imperial tombs to examine fundamental issues on death and the afterlife in one of the world's most sophisticated civilizations. Selected tombs are presented...

Helping widows and widowers to learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide shows them how to find continued meaning in life when doing so seems difficult. Bereaved spouses will find advice on when and how to dispose of their mate's belongings, dealing with their children, and redefining...

This book examines various ways of experiencing loss of any kind. The author draws examples from her experience as a psychotherapist and counsellor, offering readers the opportunity to learn about different ways of grieving. It helps readers see that they are not alone in their grief. The language is free of jargon and tackles this difficult subject with the dignity...

Death is a constant in every society, but each of the world's cultures views the end of life differently. Death and Dying examines beliefs about dying, burial, and life after death held by peoples of wide-ranging societies.

Every 85 minutes someone in the UK takes their own life, and the suicide rate is currently the highest since 2004. Society often reacts with unease, fear, and even disapproval, but what happens to those bereaved by a self-inflicted death? The reasons leading someone to take their own life are complex, and the bereavement reactions of survivors of suicide can...

Although the distinctive—and sometimes bizarre—means by which Roman aristocrats often chose to end their lives has attracted some scholarly attention in the past, most writers on the subject have been content to view this as an irrational and inexplicable aspect of Roman culture. In this book, T.D. Hill traces the cultural logic which animated these suicides, describing the meaning and...

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? How does AI affect death matters and the digital beyond? How are death and dying handled in our digital age? AI for Death and Dying covers a broad range of literature, research, and challenges around this topic. It explores ethical memorisation, digital legacies and bereavement, post-death avatars and AI, and the digital beyond. It also...

This interdisciplinary collection presents valuable discourse and reflection on the nature of a good death. Bringing together a leading judge and other legal scholars, philosophers, social scientists, practitioners and parents who present varying accounts of a good death, the chapters draw from personal experience as well as policy, practice and academic analysis. Covering themes such as patients’ rights to determine...

What is death? How can we respond to death? Why must we die? Where do we go from here? Do we go anywhere? Understanding Death offers a thorough introduction to the views and practices of various religions regarding death and life after death. Drawing on examples from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Shamanic traditions, this student-oriented textbook explores how different...

WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: BIOGRAPHY The last book from bestselling author and advocate Wendy Mitchell ‘This beautiful book will give hope and courage to many people. An uplifting and courageous read’ KATHRYN MANNIX 'Anyone who reads Mitchell’s work can only admire her passion, her energy and her extraordinary courage' SUNDAY TIMES Wendy Mitchell doesn’t fear anything anymore. After her...

'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.' Sofie Hagen ‘Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims, and this is an agonising story told with honesty and passion.’ Richard Beard 'An intimate, beautifully told memoir' Elinor Cleghorn When my third child was born, I was told I...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - “A meditation on sense-making when there's no sense to be made, on letting go when we can't hold on, and on being unafraid even when we're terrified.” LUCY KALANITHI “Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal.” BILL GATES...

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 triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’ — GUARDIAN ‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ — ZADIE SMITH ‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ — MARIE CLAIRE A book of the year...

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 ‘The best book I have read this year’ – David Nicholls ‘Beautiful’ – Douglas Stuart ‘Extraordinary’ – Sarah Moss ‘A formidable testament to a mother’s love’ – Sara Collins ‘There is no good way to say this,’ Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. ‘There is no good way...

Coping with the loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult and devastating challenge any of us face in our lifetime. The grief you feel hurts more than physical pain. And yet, somehow, life is still going on around you. Is it even possible to survive, let alone thrive, after such grief and loss? In The Sun Still...