Book Reviews: Bereavement
The Little Italian Hotel
Sunny, tender and brimming with charm, The Little Italian Hotel explores love, the importance of friendship, and reclaiming the present moment – even if it means leaving the past behind.
Old Babes in the Woods
A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
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 little...
Dearly
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist, poet - and cultural phenomenon.
Finding Chika
This is Mitch Albom at his most poignant, powerful and personal. Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed - a devastatingly beautiful portrait of...
The Book of Two Ways
Who would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are now?
Two possible futures. One impossible choice.
Dear Edward
One summer morning, a flight takes off from New York to Los Angeles. There are 216 passengers aboard: among them a young woman taking a pregnancy test in the airplane toilet; a Wall Street millionaire...
Ask Me His Name
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...
If Cats Disappeared From the World
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...
The Door
A collection was full of typical Atwood wit on the subjects of ageing, loss and grief in all it’s forms.
Paper Ghosts
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...
Let Me Lie
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...
Only Child
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....
On The Bright Side: The New Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 85 years old
Hendrik Groen is back with a new diary and is still growing old disgracefully.
Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index
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...
Option B
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...
Sweet Tea Tuesdays
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...
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter’s extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths,...
