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Books

Hammer Out maintains a small library of books, so if you wish to borrow one of these please contact us.

  • Fast Facts Brain Tumours – Guide to Clinical Practice
  • Understanding radiotherapy – Cancer BACUP
  • Managing the Stress of Cancer – Dr James Brennan , Consultant Clinical Psychologist , Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre
  • Brain Injury and Returning to Employment – A guide for Practitioners
  • That’s Unacceptable – Surviving a Brain Tumour – Rebecca L Libutti
  • Navigating through a Strange Land – Tricia Ann Roloff (a book for Brain Tumour Patients and their families)
  • Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada – Brain Tumour Patient Resource Handbook

For Children

  • Mary has a Brain Tumour
  • My Brain Tumour Adventures (The story of a little boy coping with a brain tumour) by Sharon Dempsey

Other books you may find helpful

  • Before I Say Goodbye – Ruth Picardie
  • The Problem of Pain – C.S. Lewis
  • Who Cares? – Support for Carers – Check what you could claim…. Bristol City Council Neighbourhood and Housing services
  • Sometimes talking is the best medicine (Your guide to cancer self help and support groups in the UK)
  • Help with the cost of cancer (A guide to benefits and financial help for people affected by cancer)
  • Financial help from Macmillan Cancer Relief (Grants and benefits advice for people affected by cancer)

Leaflets

Hammer Out can supply any of these leaflets, so just click on the request link below if you want us to send any to you.

  • Meningioma – BTA / UKBTS

  • Chemotherapy for Brain Tumours – BTA / UKBTS

  • Pituitary Tumours – BTA / UKBTS

  • Low Grade Glioma Brain Tumours – Astrocytoma and Oligodendroglioma, BTA / UKBTS

  • High Grade Glioma Brain Tumours – Glioblastoma Multiforme and Anaplastic Astrocytoma, BTA / UKBTS

  • Living with a Brain Tumour - BTA / UKBTS

  • Brain Tumours and Epilepsy – BTA / UKBTS

  • Radiotherapy for Brain Tumours – BTA / UKBTS

  • Befrienders – BTA / UKBTS

Other leaflets you may find helpful

  • The Harbour – Providing free and professional counselling and psychotherapy for people affected by a physical life-threatening illness