Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callanan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Grief
In this moving and compassionate classic--now updated with new material from the authors--hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years' experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories ...Show more
Pastures of Healing: From the Loss of a Child by Denis Glennon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Grief
A violent and senseless crime committed against an innocent citizen, and a father's desire 25 years later to speak directly to others who have lost a child or experienced similar grief to help in the necessary recovery back into their lives.Ciara Glennon vanished into the night in Perth, Western Austral ...Show more
Good Mourning: Honest conversations about grief and loss by Imogen Carn, Sally Douglas
$34.99 AUD
Category: Grief
From the creators of the popular podcast Good Mourning, this support-group-in-a-book helps readers navigate grief and loss with warmth, humour, raw honesty and the affirmation that they are not alone. 'A comforting support group in book form. A must-read for grievers.'Ellidy Pullin'Good Mourning is a g ...Show more
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
$35.00 AUD
Category: Grief
An illuminating book on loss by the bestselling author of QUIET Loss and impermanence are inescapable, part of the warp and weft of our lives. They are essential to love, to growth, and to art. And yet, too often, we do not acknowledge loss, let alone honour the experience of it. Illuminating, thoughtf ...Show more
Intimacy of Death and Dying : Simple guidance to help you through by Claire Leimbach, Trypheyna McShane & Zenith Virago
$29.99 AUD
Category: Grief
In a accessible, wise and reassuring style, this will provide guidance and comfort during one of life's most challenging times. Interspersed with a series of first-hand account of death - from the death of babies to the elderly, those lost in accidents, suicide - are practical pieces of advice to help y ...Show more
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Grief
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 learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much gri ...Show more
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
$27.99 AUD
Category: Grief | Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Ser.
"A Very Easy Death "has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death "shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence" ("The Sunday Telegraph"). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this i ...Show more
Everyday Madness - On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love by Lisa Appignanesi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Grief
'The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it every day.' After the death of her partner of thirty-two years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state ...Show more
A Good Death: A Compassionate and Practical Guide To Prepare for the End of Life by Margaret Rice
$32.99 AUD
Category: Grief
When her own mother died, Margaret Rice realised how completely unprepared she and her family had been for the experience of companioning a loved one who is dying. So she decided to go in search of the information she couldn't find when she most needed it and write the book herself - a novice's guide to ...Show more
Second Firsts: A Step-By-Step Guide to Life after Loss by Christina Rasmussen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Grief
'In this moving book ... you will discover how to move from merely surviving to once again thriving.' - Anita Moorjani, New York Times bestselling author of Dying to Be Me Christina thought she knew everything about grief - she worked as a crisis intervention counsellor and wrote her thesis on the stag ...Show more
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Grief
In 2009, on a beautiful sunny day, Megan Devine witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner Matt. "All my professional experience as a therapist felt meaningless," she writes. "Grief literature is loaded with well-intended advice that can actually worsen and extend someone's pain. We just d ...Show more