A Tomb With a View - The Stories and Glories of Graveyards

'His stories are always a joy' - Ian Rankin 'I'm a card-carrying admirer of Peter Ross' - Robert Macfarlane Award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards. Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? How did a thousand skulls come to be stacked beneath a church in Kent? Why is the music hall star who sang I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside buried on a hillside in Glasgow far from the sound of the silvery sea? 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...

Info autore

Peter Ross is an award-winning journalist. A nine-times winner at the Scottish Press Awards and shortlisted for the Orwell journalism prize, he is a regular contributor to the Guardian and The Times. He is the author of the non-fiction collections Daunderlust and The Passion Of Harry Bingo, the latter shortlisted as non-fiction book of the year at the Saltire Society literary awards. He lives in Glasgow with a view of the tombs.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Ross
• Editore: Headline
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781472267788
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-6778-8
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 126 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Categorie: Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio > Mondo, Artide, Antartide; Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, Travel writing, Social and cultural history, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology: death and dying