A Tomb With a View

'His stories are always a joy' - Ian Rankin'I'm a card-carrying admirer of Peter Ross' - Robert MacfarlaneAward-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...