Marcus Berkmann

Children’s questions about death are consistently good fun

Gift books for the Christmas market include Caitlin Doughty’s Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Another question being ‘Can We Give Grandma a Viking funeral?’

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  • Priests de la Resistance!: The Loose Canons who Fought Fascism in the Twentieth Century

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  • Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

    Caitlin Doughty

    Weidenfeld, £14

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    Pop Press, £9

  • Round Britain Quiz Book

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