A unique, elegiac meditation on grief

In his late 30s, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in a recurring nightmare surrounding a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to ghost stories from his childhood, and to writers who have attempted to confront what comes after death over the years.اضافة اعلان

In Ghostland, Parnell goes searching for the sequestered places of the British Isles, the lonely moors, the moss-covered cemeteries, the stark shores, and folkloric woodlands. He explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema.

Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists — and what is haunting him.

The book was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley 2020 Award for memoir.


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