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Upon a White Horse – Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland by Peter Ross

If you have yet to discover the writer Peter Ross you are in for a real treat.

Peter Ross is an awarding winning journalist and author based in Glasgow. He has written for The Guardian, Sunday Times and The Times among others and is an Orwell journalism fellow.

Among his five books are three I’m pretty sure Radnor Street Cemetery followers would enjoy. His latest, published this year, is Upon a White Horse – Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland.

As you might imagine, given the historic nature of our neck of the woods, he covers Wiltshire in some detail – Stonehenge, Avebury, Wayland’s Smithy, Kennet Long Barrow and those two iconic chalk figures the Uffington White Horse and the Cerne Abbas Giant – even Swindon band XTC gets a mention.

Peter travels the length and breadth of the British Isles from Cornwall to Orkney, taking in Dublin, Pembrokeshire and Anglesey en route and paying a moving yet optimistic visit to the site of the Sycamore Gap.

The writing is lyrical, the descriptions evocative – Upon a White Horse is a joy to read. But don’t just take my word for it.

Available from Bert’s Books https://bertsbooks.co.uk/product/upon-a-white-horse/ and Central Library although it is on loan at the moment. Keep checking the library catalogue.

Avebury images are my own

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A Tomb with a View

A Tomb With a View

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.