Francis Wheen

Epater Les Highbrows

John Betjeman: His Life and Work

By Patrick Taylor-Martin

C H Rolph

The Long Wait

Slow Coming Dark: Interviews on Death Row

By Doug Magee

Sara Wheeler

No One is Immune

Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control

By Barbara Ehrenreich

Rosemary Dinnage

The Rage of Dying

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

By Sherwin B Nuland

Martyn Bedford

A Novelist at Last

How the Dead Live

By Will Self

Michael Waterhouse

Further Thoughts of a Funeral Director

Bodies in Motion and at Rest

By Thomas Lynch

Wendy Moore

Sense of an Ending

Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the Endgame

By Robert McCrum

Blake Morrison

Mortician as Poet

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

By Thomas Lynch

Michael Waterhouse

Remembering Loved Ones By Their Smell

The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal

By Peter C Jupp and Glennys Howarth (ed)

Cressida Connolly

Death of the Author

The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

By Katie Roiphe

Michael Waterhouse

They All Enjoyed a Good Hanging

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

By Peter Linebaugh

Jonathan Kirsch

The Road to Pitchipoï

But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens (Translated by Sandra Smith)

Asylum

By Moriz Scheyer

Lesley Downer

In the Shadow of Fukushima

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

By Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Craig Raine

Immortality For Who?

The Human Province

By Elias Canetti (Translated by Joachim Neugroschel)

Darrin M McMahon

Esprit de Corpse

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

By Thomas W Laqueur

Michael Waterhouse

A Final Sparkle

The Dying Game: A Curious History of Death

By Melanie King

Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer

By David Boyd Haycock

Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying?

By Mary Warnock & Elisabeth Macdonald

Lewis Wolpert

Coping With Loss

The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression

By Darian Leader

Harry Mount

Esprit de Corpse

How to Read a Graveyard: Journeys in the Company of the Dead

By Peter Stanford