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

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His stories are always a joy.' - Ian Rankin'A man with endless curiosity and a great eye for a story.' - The Herald'Most likely you just walk past. The iron railings, the peeling black paint. A stone angel, glimpsed through rhododendrons, tilting on her plinth, missing the hand that once pointed to heaven. Who, now, does she bless? Foxes, crows, drunks, the dead. You are quite right to keep on for your bus. What, though, if you did take a moment to look inside? You would be entering a grave new world of fascination and delight. There is nothing quite like a turn among the headstones to remind us that we are alive.