Languages of lossSasha Bates is a psychotherapist specialising in grief, trauma and PTSD. When her husband dies suddenly and she is plunged into the messy reality of shock, anger and denial, does her theoretical knowledge help her at all? In a searingly honest memoir covering the first terrible year of loss, the author creates some perspective from amidst the depths of her pain with insights into psycho therapeutic theory, offering raw and moving descriptions of how

chanterelles and even grasshoppers

the MIT are stumped

every encounter

George must make a mad dash from Sheffield to the Adriatic - and into the arms of organized crime gangs who specialize in illegal kidney transplants and heroin smuggling

Peter James

experiences loss and loneliness

'An exciting new voice' Mark Cocker

into the pages of the Guardian

in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father

spent time in hospital

when Bessie is found brutally beaten in her own room

So I chased him out into the ruins of the world