Results for: books tagged ‘Bereavement’

  1. A Grief Observed

    A Grief Observed: C. S. Lewis

    A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian apologist on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. Painfully honest in ... More

  2. Rain

    Rain: Kirsty Gunn

    A twelve-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The days are long and hot and while the parents entertain their friends the two children ... More

  3. Laments

    Laments: Jan Kochanowski

    Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) is acknowledged to be the first great poet in Poland's vernacular literary tradition. His Treny (or Laments) represent the height of his achievement. They are an impassioned, ... More

  4. Tell Me the Truth About Love

    Tell Me the Truth About Love: W. H. Auden

    Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral. More

  5. Elegies

    Elegies: Douglas Dunn

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  6. Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving: Michael Dibdin

    Thanksgiving is a novel about love, sex, death at midlife, and the power of the past. Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has suddenly died. Grieving and ... More

  7. Amrita

    Amrita: Banana Yoshimoto

    A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes ... More

  8. The Journey Home

    The Journey Home: Olaf Olafsson

    For years, Disa has lived a quiet life, managing an English country-house hotel with her companion Anthony. However, upon learning that she is terminally ill, Disa decides it is time ... More

  9. First World War Poems

    First World War Poems: Andrew Motion

    In this moving anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through the horror and the pity of the Great War, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections ... More

  10. The Haw Lantern

    The Haw Lantern: Seamus Heaney

    Widely praised on its first publication in 1978, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning ... More

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