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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  • The A to Z History of London

    Philip Parker

    Collins, £25

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

    Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

    Oneworld, £12

  • Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

    Caitlin Doughty

    Weidenfeld, £14

  • Chiryoku

    Dr Gareth Moore

    Pop Press, £9

  • Round Britain Quiz Book

    Paul Bajoria

    BBC Books, £12

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