Grief and grieving

When dealing with loss or trying to help those grieving it can help to read about others' experiences. Below we have links to searches into our catalogue so that you can see all of what we have, a selection of key non-fiction titles and links to some novels. There are also a number of support services listed in CINCH which may offer help.

• Non-fiction
• Selected novels

Non-fiction

This is just a selection of what we have to get you started: use the subject searches for more titles.

Coping with grief

• On death and dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• Don't let death ruin your life: a practical guide to reclaiming happiness after the death of a loved one by Jill Brooke
• Subject searches:
  • Bereavement
  • Consolation
  • Death - Psychological aspects
  • Grief

Helping the bereaved

• Stuck for words: what to say to someone who is grieving by Doris Zagdanski

Grieving children and teenagers

• Children's grief: a guide for parents by Pam Heaney
• The grief book: strategies for young people by Elizabeth Vercoe
• When a friend dies: a book for teens about grieving and healing by Marilyn Gootman
• Subject searches:
  • Bereavement in children
  • Bereavement in adolescence
  • Children and death
  • Teenagers and death

Suicide

• After a suicide: practical information for people bereaved by suicide
• Everybody hurts by Rick Stevenson
• Subject searches:
  • Suicide
  • Violent deaths

Sudden death

• No time for goodbyes: coping with sorrow, anger, and injustice after a tragic death by Janice Harris Lord
• Subject searches:
  • Violent deaths

Death of a child

• You're not alone [video] Produced for the Cot Death Division, National Children's Health Research Foundation
• Still life: hidden stories of stillbirth and forbidden grief by Lois Tonkin
• For the rest of our lives: after the death of a child by Bev Gatenby
• Subject searches:
  • Fœtal (Fetal) or Perinatal death
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

When your partner dies

• When your partner dies by Mary Mortimer
• When your partner dies: stories of women who have lost their husbands by Richard Stanton
• Subject searches:
  • Widowhood, widowers, widows

Parental death

• How to survive the loss of a parent: a guide for adults by Lois Akner
• Last touch: preparing for a parent's death by Marilyn Becker
• Subject searches:
  • Parent's death

Death of a pet

• When your pet dies by Christine Adamec
• Goodbye dear friend: coming to terms with the death of a pet by Virginia Ironside
• Subject searches:
  • Pet's death

Novels about dying & death

• I heard the owl call my name by Margaret Craven
• At risk by Alice Hoffman
• Moon tiger by Penelope Lively
• A reckoning by May Sarton
• The tin can tree by Anne Tyler
• Standing alone by Anne Melville
• A lunar eclipse by Robert Edric
• The service of clouds by Susan Hill
• Surrender, Dorothy by Meg Wolitzer
• In the night season by Richard Bausch
• One true thing by Anna Quindlen
• The pollen room by Zoe Jenny
• Closing time by Jim Fusilli
• August by Gerard Woodward
• more titles