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A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards: A Financial Times Book of the Year
A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR`In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal Green, to melancholy islands and surprisingly lively ossuaries . . . a considered and moving book on the timely subject of how the dead are remembered, and how they go on working below the surface of our lives.` - Hilary Mantel`Ross is a wonderfully evocative writer, deftly capturing a sense of place and history, while bringing a deep humanity to his subject. He has written a delightful book.` - The Guardian`The pages burst with life and anecdote while also examining our relationship with remembrance.` - Financial Times (best travel books of 2020)`Among the year`s most surprising ”sleeper” successes is A Tomb with a View. In a year with so much death, it may have initially seemed a hard sell, but the author`s humanity has instead acted as a beacon of light in the darkness.` - The Sunday Times`Fascinating . . . Ross makes a likeably idiosyncratic guide and one finishes the book feeling strangely optimistic about the inevitable.` - The Observer`Ross has written [a] lively elegy to Britain`s best burial grounds.` - Evening Standard (*Best New Books of Autumn 2020*)`One of the non-fiction books of the year.` - The i paper (*2020 Best Books for Christmas*)`Brilliant.` - Stylist (*Best Christmas books for Christmas 2020*)`Never has a book about death been so full of life. James Joyce and Charles Dickens would`ve loved it - a book that reveals much gravity in the humour and many stories in the graveyard. It also reveals Peter Ross to be among the best non-fiction writers in the country.` - Andrew O`Hagan`His stories are always a joy.` - Ian Rankin`I`m a card-carrying admirer of Peter Ross.` - Robert Macfarlane`A startling, delight-filled tour of graveyards and the people who love them, dazzlingly told.` - Denise Mina `A phenomenal, lyrical, beautiful book.` - Frank Turner`A walk through the graveyards of Britain guided by one of the most engaging wordsmiths willing to take you by the hand.` - The Big Issue (*Best Books 2020*)`A celebration of life and of love. It confronts our universal fate but tends towards a comforting embrace of mortality. It is also imbued with something deeply moving.` - The Herald`Beautifully written and strangely life affirming.` - Norman Blake, Teenage Fanclub For readers of The Salt Path, Mudlarking, Ghostland, Kathleen Jamie and Robert Macfarlane. Enter a grave new world in this acclaimed book as Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London`s outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? What is the remarkable truth about Phoebe Hessel, who disguised herself as a man to fight alongside her sweetheart, and went on to live in the reigns of five monarchs? Why is a Bristol cemetery the perfect wedding venue for goths? All of these sorrowful mysteries - and many more - are answered in A Tomb With A View, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath.So push open the rusting gate, push back the ivy, and take a look inside...

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