{"product_id":"a-tomb-with-a-view-the-stories-and-glories-of-graveyards-a-financial-times-book-of-the-year-9781472267795","title":"A Tomb With a View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards: A Financial Times Book of the Year","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Tomb With a View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards: A Financial Times Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e by Ross, Peter. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781472267795.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR\n\nIn 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\n\nRoss 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\n\nThe pages burst with life and anecdote while also examining our relationship with remembrance. - Financial Times (best travel books of 2020)\n\nAmong the years 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 authors humanity has instead acted as a beacon of light in the darkness.\n- The Sunday Times\n\nFascinating . . . Ross makes a likeably idiosyncratic guide and one finishes the book feeling strangely optimistic about the inevitable. - The Observer\n\nRoss has written [a] lively elegy to Britains best burial grounds. - Evening Standard (*Best New Books of Autumn 2020*)\n\nOne of the non-fiction books of the year. - The i paper (*2020 Best Books for Christmas*)\n\nBrilliant. - Stylist (*Best Christmas books for Christmas 2020*)\n\nNever has a book about death been so full of life. James Joyce and Charles Dickens wouldve 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 OHagan\n\nHis stories are always a joy. - Ian Rankin\n\nIm a card-carrying admirer of Peter Ross. - Robert Macfarlane\n\nA startling, delight-filled tour of graveyards and the people who love them, dazzlingly told. - Denise Mina\n\nA phenomenal, lyrical, beautiful book. - Frank Turner\n\nA 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*)\n\nA 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\n\nBeautifully written and strangely life affirming. - Norman Blake, Teenage Fanclub\n\nFor readers of The Salt Path, Mudlarking, Ghostland, Kathleen Jamie and Robert Macfarlane.\n\nEnter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are Londons 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?\n\nAll 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.\n\nSo push open the rusting gate, push back the ivy, and take a look inside...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Headline Book Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44982164324405,"sku":"ByrdShop_1472267796","price":96.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781472267795_263755e8-bee8-4da6-bd01-1f624c7e009a.jpg?v=1778640534","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-tomb-with-a-view-the-stories-and-glories-of-graveyards-a-financial-times-book-of-the-year-9781472267795","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}