Fiction and Poetry
0241978963 
Paperback 
Year: 2016
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is the unsentimental story of the remarkable relationship between the desperate Billy, a friendless boy living in a soulless northern town, and the equally destructive, fierce kestrel, Kes, which he raises from the nest. Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 1968
0099479311 
Paperback 
Year: 1996
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
Note: The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart her coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people
1611856027 
Hardback
Year: 2011
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Grove
Resource type: Physical
Note: Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while bodysurfing. Francisco wanted to die too. But instead he wrote 'Say Her Name'.
0571323766 
Hardback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter.
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Hardback
Year: 2015
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: In the course of his collection of poems, Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable and memorable in our time here.
0099394316 
Paperback
Year: 1999
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 1942, Charlotte Gray goes to Occupied France on a dual mission, to run a simple errand for a British special operations group and to find her lover, anEnglish airman who has gone missing in action
0008331650 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: Holly and Gerry have a running joke - that she'd never cope without him. When Gerry dies of a brain tumour, Holly's life falls apart. She cannot see how she can go on. But then she receives a package from Gerry - a letter, with a pile of envelopes with each one containing 'to do' lists for each month. Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 2008
1608194663 
Paperback
Year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'The Art of Losing' is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections - reckoning, remembrance, rituals, recovery and redemption - with poems by some of our most beloved po
0552993697 
Paperback
Year: 2010
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Resource type: Physical
Note: Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument
0571305296 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: Folio Prize 2015 Shortlist Yoli is conflicted. Her sister Elf has battled depression for her whole adult life, and is in a psychiatric ward under permanent observation after attempting suicide - again. She has always looked up to her as her talented and beautiful older sister.