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From Here to Eternity
Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
2017
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As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West and explores new spaces for mourning - including a futuristic glowing-Buddha columbarium in Japan, a candlelit Mexican cem...
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
And Other Lessons from the Crematory
2014
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In this "morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller that launched the death positive movement, a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in th...
A Bird in Winter
'Nail-bitingly tense and compelling' Paula Hawkins
2023
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OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'Psychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily Mail'A page-turning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime!' VAL McDERMID'Pacey and propulsive.' Guardian'A rare combination of elegance and unbelievable tension . . . Utterly brilliant.' Joanna Cannon'Gripping.' Marie ClaireThe latest from the Number One Sunday Times Be...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
2019
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Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. Here she offers her factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses gro...
Apple Tree Yard
From the writer of BBC smash hit drama 'Crossfire'
2013
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, WITH OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLDShortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the YearYvonne Carmichael has a high-flying career, a beautiful home and a good marriage.But when she meets a stranger she is drawn into a passionate affair.Keeping the two halves of her life separate seems easy at first.But she can't control what ha...
Platform Seven
From the writer of BBC smash hit drama 'Crossfire'
2019
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AS SEEN ON ITVXOVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'The perfect thriller.' Stylist'Scarily plausible . . . desperately moving.' Guardian'Gripping.' Good HousekeepingThe novel from Sunday Times bestselling authorPlatform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man ...
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
And Other Lessons from the Crematorium
2015
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death' Gavin Francis, GuardianFrom her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into her curious new profession. Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about she started to wonder about the lives of those...
On This Spot Fell One Tear of Love
A beautiful memoir from the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard
2026
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'A wonderful memoir - I loved it' KATE MOSSE'One of the most beautiful memoirs I have ever read' JOANNA CANNON'Astonishing' KIT DE WAAL'What a brave book, haunting, visceral and beautifully written' DBC PIERRE'Loving, generous and unflinching' BERNARDINE EVARISTOIn her first memoir, acclaimed novelist Louise Doughty introduces us to her parents, Ken and Avis, and tells t...
2014
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FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRECaptivating and beautifully written.' MirrorFrom the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard comes this story of three generations of one Romany family in England, as they face family life, love and marriage along with the changes and upheavals for Travelling people at the turn of the nineteenth century.Clementina Smith is just a young girl when she gives birth to her i...
Dead in the Water
The Lost Passengers of the Titanic
2027
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New York Times best-selling author Caitlin Doughty presents Titanic like never before: through the stories of those who died—and what happened to the bodies.Millions of people trust Caitlin Doughty to explore dark subjects with empathy and humor. Now, in her most ambitious work to date, Doughty explains what actually happened to the 1,500 people who died the night of history’s most famous shipwreck. Alongside white-knuckle tales of survival and ma...
Available Apr 6, 2027
Dead in the Water
The Lost Passengers of the Titanic
2027
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New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Doughty presents Titanic like never before: through the stories of those who died - and what happened to the bodies.In Dead in the Water, internationally bestselling author and death expert Caitlin Doughty (author of From Here to Eternity) explains what actually happened to the 1,500 people who died the night of history's most famous shipwreck. Alongside white-knuckle tales of survival an...
Available Apr 15, 2027
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
2019
EN
**New York Times bestsellerWinner of a Goodreads Choice Award"Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential." —Marianne Eloise, Guardian**Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything f...