Sociology: death & dying

'Remarkable'OBSERVER

'Deeply profound… this is no ordinary memoir' THE TIMES

‘Astounding’ ADAM FARRER

‘Brave and luminous’ SARAH LANGFORD

‘Mesmerising’ POLLY ATKIN

‘Beautifully written’ YORKSHIRE POST

‘Steadfastly honest’ GEOGRAPHICAL

A memoir of grief, nature and ancestry in rural Yorkshire.

When my third child was born, I was told I had a boy. The baby was given a boy’s name and raised in that gender. But when she died, twenty years later, she died as my daughter, and will forever be remembered that way.

A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community and the climate crisis in the Shetland Islands by environmental journalist Marianne Brown.

An extraordinary look at the global climate emergency through the microcosm of Shetland's historic and present day role in energy production.

'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY

'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity' THE TIMES

'As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER' GUARDIAN

'Dr Chloe helped me understand how to grieve and keep living, how to find the light in the darkest of days. I know this book will be of great comfort to many.' Zoe Ball

‘An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person’ CARIAD LLOYD

'Brilliantly, brilliantly written … Packed with clarity, curiosity and courage' FELIX WHITE

‘It turned on so many lights for me … What a profoundly helpful book’ KATHRYN MANNIX

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous – tombs, graves and burial sites.

‘The most life-affirming book ever written about death.’ Sandi Toksvig

‘One of the most powerful and helpful books about grief that you will ever read.’ Anita Anand

‘Grief is more than the price of love. It is love. We must learn not just to live with it, but to make it welcome.’

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.

‘My husband died, my life collapsed.’

From the author of ‘The Prehistory of Sex’ – a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul.