Books: Bereavement

 
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End of Story

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Too much imagination can be a dangerous thing

It's the year 2035 and fiction has been banned by the government for five years. Writing novels is a crime. Reading fairytales to children is...

End of Story

The Little Italian Hotel

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Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host and relationship expert, prides herself on knowing what’s best for others. So, she’s sure her husband, Adrian, will love the special trip to Italy she’s...

The Little Italian Hotel

Old Babes in the Woods

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Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared...

Old Babes in the Woods

My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

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'Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep, and to get her to practise granny's secret language, and a...

My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

Dearly

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The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist, poet - and cultural phenomenon.

Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet....

Dearly

Finding Chika

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Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika...

Finding Chika

The Book of Two Ways

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Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully.

But when the plane she's on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she...

The Book of Two Ways

Dear Edward

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A luminous, life-affirming novel about a 12-year-old boy who is the sole survivor of a deadly plane crash

One summer morning, a flight takes off from New York to Los Angeles. There are 216...

Dear Edward

Ask Me His Name

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Dear Reader, When I found myself experiencing a motherhood that I never expected, one that I was terrified of living, I didn't know how I would carry on being "normal." I didn't...

Ask Me His Name

If Cats Disappeared From the World

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Translated from the original Japanese version this is a a moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in life. Our...

If Cats Disappeared From the World

The Door

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Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the...

The Door

Paper Ghosts

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Paper Ghosts is a compelling read about a young girl’s struggle to be brave in the wake of her older sisters being missing and presumed dead.

The unnamed protagonist believes her sister was...

Paper Ghosts

Let Me Lie

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Anna is at home with her 8- week- old daughter Ella when she receives a card through the post. Today isn’t just any day, it is the anniversary of her mother’s suicide, just seven months...

Let Me Lie

Only Child

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Six year old Zach Taylor is hidden in a cloakroom with his teacher and classmates listening as a gunman roams the halls of his school. By the time he is done he will have claimed 19 victims....

Only Child

Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

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It has been sixty-five days since Juniper Lemon’s sister died in a car accident. Juniper has taken Camilla’s bag to school with her, a memento to help her through her first day back at...

Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

Option B

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Sheryl Sandberg’s husband died suddenly whilst they were in Mexico celebrating a friend’s birthday. She felt like she was never going to stop feeling like her world had just ended. Her...

Option B

Sweet Tea Tuesdays

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Sweet Tea Tuesdays tells the tale of three friends who have met every Tuesday at 4pm for twenty -six years to drink sweet tea and keep each other abreast of the goings on in their lives. Georgia, Lula...

Sweet Tea Tuesdays

Hagseed

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Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it...

Hagseed

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

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Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar—a man adrift in the wake of his wife’s sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons, who, like him, struggle...

Grief is the Thing with Feathers
 
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