Loss (Psychology)

Following her father's death, Katharine Smyth turned to her favourite novel, Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse', as a way of making sense of her bereavement. Written out of a lifelong admiration for Woolf and her work, Katharine's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's...

Following her father's death, Katharine Smyth turned to her favourite novel, Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse', as a way of making sense of her bereavement. Written out of a lifelong admiration for Woolf and her work, Katharine's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's...

Christina Schmid was married to Olaf, an army bomb disposal expert killed in action in Afghanistan aged 30. This old fashioned love story offers unprecedented access to behind the scenes of one of the most stressful jobs in the armed forces.

In the year before his 30th birthday, Miles had everything to live for - brilliant, athletic, beautiful, and loved, his life was a success story that had only just begun. But a sudden and disastrous snowboarding accident changed everything; Miles was left in a coma, semi-conscious but unable to m...

In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief, what starts as a love letter to on...

Articulately told in a powerful and compelling voice by an author who is also a mother and a doctor, 'Eating the Elephant' addresses compelling current issues such as bereavement, the dark net, addiction to pornography and child sex abuse.

A short, potent examination of the ways in which our sanity can become, suddenly, elusive, 'Everyday Madness' is a deeply personal and brave account of subjects that resonate powerfully for so many of us.

In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. The book takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting. Beautifully written, it combines memoir, history and philosophy, sh...

At 7 years old Min Kym was a prodigy, the youngest ever pupil at the Purcell School of Music. At 11 she won her first international prize. She worked with many violins, waiting for the day she would play 'the one'. At 21 she found it: a rare 1696 Stradivarius, perfectly suited to her build and te...

In this lyrical and moving story of the world of Prolonged Grief, journalist Cody Delistraty reflects on his experience with loss and explores what modern science, history, and literature reveal about the nature of our relationship to grief and our changing attitudes toward its cure. When Cody De...