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Wife, Interrupted
Headline 2010; US$ 22.64My story begins where most women hope theirs will end ? with a big, white wedding. After all, isn?t that how every good fairy tale finishes? I thought so. And at 23 it seemed my ?happy ever after? was secure. I?d met the man of my dreams whilst on a gap year in Australia. Less than a month later he proposed and I accepted. But within twelve months... more...
Always with You
Hodder & Stoughton 2009; US$ 20.83On April 13th, 2004 Gloria Hunniford's 41 year old daughter, Caron Keating, died after a secret seven year battle with cancer. The world that had changed with Caron's diagnosis, now shattered. Life had been cruelly interrupted, a black hole opened in Glorias heart, she was consumed with the unimaginable grief that the loss of a child brings and she... more...
Small Miracles
Hachette Australia 2010; US$ 22.64We have a word, orphan, to describe someone who has lost their parents; but there's no word for parents who have lost their child. There is only grief. It is an unnamed, unspoken tragedy that touches all families in some way. Few of us realise that one in four pregnancies results in a loss; that the line between immense heartbreak and the greatest... more...
The Welcome Visitor
Hodder & Stoughton 2010; US$ 20.83Death is a subject modern society shies away from. Even doctors avoid the word. But if we regard death as a failure in our desire to prolong life, can we ever arrive at a humane approach to those whose lives have lost meaning? Are we keeping people alive simply because we can?Here, John Humphrys and his co-author Dr Sarah Jarvis take a wider look at... more...
Why Not Me?
Orion 2010; US$ 20.83Ruthlessly honest memoir of a widow's pain in coming to terms with the death of her husband. This haunting memoir of grief recounts the death from cancer of Nick Clarke, much-loved BBC radio presenter of 'The World at One' - and the aftermath - from his widow Barbara's point of view. With painful honesty, Barbara lays open her ambivalent feelings... more...
Simple Abundance
Hachette Australia 2011; US$ 31.70With over five million copies sold, SIMPLE ABUNDANCE is the book that has become a life bible for women everywhere. This is edition is specifically adapted for Australian and New Zealand readers. more...
The Long Goodbye
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 20.83Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to her mother, but also at the inability of people to acknowledge her pain; her sense that the meaning... more...
Always with You
Hodder & Stoughton 2009; Not AvailableOn April 13th, 2004 Gloria Hunniford's 41 year old daughter, Caron Keating, died after a secret seven year battle with cancer. The world that had changed with Caron's diagnosis, now shattered. Life had been cruelly interrupted, a black hole opened in Glorias heart, she was consumed with the unimaginable grief that the loss of a child brings and she... more...
The Welcome Visitor
Hodder & Stoughton 2010; Not AvailableDeath is a subject modern society shies away from. Even doctors avoid the word. But if we regard death as a failure in our desire to prolong life, can we ever arrive at a humane approach to those whose lives have lost meaning? Are we keeping people alive simply because we can?Here, John Humphrys and his co-author Dr Sarah Jarvis take a wider look at... more...
Staring at the Sun
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; Not AvailableOver the past quarter century Irvin Yalom has established himself as the world's leading group psychotherapist. In STARING AT THE SUN, he explores how the knowledge of our own mortality affects the unconscious mind of every human being. Tackling the effect of mankind's fear of death - both conscious and unconscious - on life and how we might live it,... more...









