While the number of books on death, dying, loss and grief is vast, we do offer you a recommended reading list for both adults and another for young children.

These lists will be updated from time to time, and will reflect the needs of those who are bereaved.

The field of loss and grief has evolved significantly since the early days of the pioneering work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and her classic text ‘On Death and Dying’ published in the late 1960s. Since then practitioners have come to recognise many types or categories of grief and the diversity of causes of grief.

Whether death occurs, a diagnosis of a disability of a child is given, a relationship breaks up or a family migrates – loss will be experienced and grief will be felt.

Please use these lists as a starting point, knowing that they are a symbol in themselves of the fact that grief touches us all, and we each, in our own way, try to make some sense of the changes which cause it.