If you enjoy cemetery stories (and I’m guessing you do, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this blog) you will enjoy A Tomb With a View by Peter Ross.

The author’s details at the front of the book briefly describe Peter Ross as an award winning journalist who lives in Glasgow with a view of the tombs. But if you’re not sure if this book is for you I recommend you read the Author’s Note. Peter Ross says everything I try to say, only better. He is a beautiful, descriptive, lyrical writer; the words and the emotions ease across the page.

He writes about those famous cemeteries I know of and have visited – Highgate and Brompton, two of London’s Magnificent Seven, and closer to home, Bristol’s Arnos Vale, and others that I now have on my to do list – Glasnevin in Dublin and Cathcart in Glasgow.

He has introduced me to familiar people I’d previously read about and those I hadn’t, such as Wayne Sanders, whose life was brilliant, until it wasn’t and who lies in a natural burial ground in Sharpham Meadow, Devon.

A Tomb With a View is available from all the usual places, but if you live locally please visit Bert’s Books, 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB.