Right out the gate, I will say that this might be one of my favourite reads in 2026. In Fly, Wild Swans: my mother, myself and China, author Jung Chang continues the story that she started in her 1991...

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Right out the gate, I will say that this might be one of my favourite reads in 2026. In Fly, Wild Swans: my mother, myself and China, author Jung Chang continues the story that she started in her 1991...

What’s next? What happens after you die? It’s one question I’ve never asked when interviewing the scores of nearly-departed people I’ve profiled for advance obituaries in The New York Times. The an…

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“In a way, my mother’s death was both an ending and a beginning” writes Jane K. Callahan, author of A Death Doula’s Guide To a Meaningful End. Before the death of her mother, she had no real frame of ...

Dr Molly Conisbee What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Molly Conisbee on...

Professor Sandra Ruiz What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Sandra Ruiz on...

In All the lives we ever lived author Katharine Smyth seeks solace in the works of Virginia Woolf, particularly her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. I will admit right out the gate that I have never read...

In All the lives we ever lived author Katharine Smyth seeks solace in the works of Virginia Woolf, particularly her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. I will admit right out the gate that I have never read...

Salena Godden is an acclaimed poet, activist and broadcaster born in the UK. Mrs Death Misses Death is her debut novel. She opens her book with a disclaimer for the reader, akin trigger warnings that ...

Thing in nature merely grow is the 2026 winner of the Pulitzer Price for memoir or autobiography. In the memoir Yiyun Li writes about the suicides of both her sons which occurred six years apart. Li's...

In Too Poor to Die: the Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins author Amy Shea demonstrates that death is not the great equalizer. Some people, as the title highlights, are simply too poor to die. ...

Thing in nature merely grow is the 2026 winner of the Pulitzer Price for memoir or autobiography. In the memoir Yiyun Li writes about the suicides of both her sons which occurred six years apart. Li's...

Thing in nature merely grow is the 2026 winner of the Pulitzer Price for memoir or autobiography. In the memoir Yiyun Li writes about the suicides of both her sons which occurred six years apart. Li's...

In Too Poor to Die: the Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins author Amy Shea demonstrates that death is not the great equalizer. Some people, as the title highlights, are simply too poor to die. ...

Recently I found myself at an airport without any reading material so, needless to say, I wandered into a book shop. This is where I came across Lost Souls Meet Under A Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura, ...

In Too Poor to Die: the Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins author Amy Shea demonstrates that death is not the great equalizer. Some people, as the title highlights, are simply too poor to die. ...

Recently I found myself at an airport without any reading material so, needless to say, I wandered into a book shop. This is where I came across Lost Souls Meet Under A Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura, translated from Japanese into English by Yuki Tejima. The tagline on the back of the book "Is t...

This time last year, I had never heard of Henrietta Lacks. But over the past year her name has been appearing in papers and book chapters I have been reading. Most recently, in a chapter of The Routle...

This time last year, I had never heard of Henrietta Lacks. But over the past year her name has been appearing in papers and book chapters I have been reading. Most recently, in a chapter of The Routle...

This time last year, I had never heard of Henrietta Lacks. But over the past year her name has been appearing in papers and book chapters I have been reading. Most recently, in a chapter of The Routle...

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I was kindly sent an uncorrected proof of Still Running After All These Years: A Runner's Journey Through Grief. Whilst I was sent this book due to my interest in death and dying, I think I got the mo...

I was kindly sent an uncorrected proof of Still Running After All These Years: A Runner's Journey Through Grief. Whilst I was sent this book due to my interest in death and dying, I think I got the mo...

What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Nina Vaswani on young men and grief during in imprisonment, childhood bereavement, masculinities and grief, trauma informed practice, comics for educati...

When the Cranes Fly South follows the life of Bo, an older person living alone in the North of Sweden. We get glimpses of his daily life interspersed with notes from carers, who visit Bo multiple tim...

When the Cranes Fly South follows the life of Bo, an older person living alone in the North of Sweden. We get glimpses of his daily life interspersed with notes from carers, who visit Bo multiple tim...

As will be clear by now, I love a memoir. I love learning about people's life histories and how their lived experience is shaped by their historical, social and political environment. Before the Light...

As will be clear by now, I love a memoir. I love learning about people's life histories and how their lived experience is shaped by their historical, social and political environment. Before the Light...

This has been the third, or fourth, time reading Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson written by Mitch Albom. Originally published in 1997, I am sure many of you h...

This has been the third, or fourth, time reading Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson written by Mitch Albom. Originally published in 1997, I am sure many of you h...

What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Douglas Davies on the development of death studies, ‘words against death’, the ‘dividual’, religion, ‘sacred secrets’, the ‘opacity of the sel...