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

Absorbing . . . considered and moving. * Hilary Mantel * Fascinating . . . Ross makes a likeably idiosyncratic guide and one finishes the book feeling strangely optimistic about the inevitable. * The Observer * The pages burst with life and anecdote while also examining our relationship with remembrance. * Financial Times * Among the year's most surprising sleeper successes is A Tomb with a View, Peter Ross's critically acclaimed ode to the stories and glories of graveyards . 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 * 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 * I have nothing but admiration for his way to winkle out a story from the living as well as paying homage to the dead. * The Scotsman * Ross has written [a] lively elegy to Britain's best burial grounds. * Evening Standard * A brilliant buy * Stylist * A startling, delight-filled tour of graveyards and the people who love them, dazzlingly told. * Denise Mina * Beautifully written and strangely life affirming. * Norman Blake, Teenage Fanclub * 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 * It is not too fanciful to talk of the soul of A Tomb With A View. It is replete with stories but it echoes with something profound. * The Herald * Scottish journalist Ross's meander around graveyards raises profound questions about the way in which we mourn * I News - Christmas Gift Guide 2020 * Peter Ross makes a fine contribution to the library of books about being planted . . . I have nothing but admiration for his way to winkle out a story from the living as well as paying homage to the dead * The Scotsman's Scottish Books of the Year * Everyday humanity, an acknowledgement of how life continues in the presence of the dead. . . is writ large in A Tomb with a View, in Ross's encounters with tour guides, local historians, a gardener, a stonecutter, even a recent widow. * Prospect * Ross's book is an engaging ramble among the gravestones and burial plots of Britain and Ireland * Irish Examiner * I'm a card-carrying admirer of Peter Ross. * Robert Macfarlane * His stories are always a joy. * Ian Rankin * An evocative and uplifting exploration of cemeteries, where every headstone has a story to tell. . . 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 Book of The Day * Ross' development into a sensitive and empathetic observer of social ritual has culminated in this treasure * The Big Issue * A phenomenal, lyrical, beautiful book * Frank Turner * A startling, delight-filled tour of graveyards and the people who love them, dazzlingly told. * Denise Mina * [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 *