About

Mr B's Emporium couldn't be more excited to welcome the award-winning Argentine author and journalist, Mariana Enriquez, to Bath, for her new book, Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys.

It's no secret that the whole Mr B's team have been huge fans of Mariana's books over the years, from her International Booker Prize shortlisted collection, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, to her colossal and truly exceptional novel, Our Share of Night.

Mariana returns with her new work of non-fiction, Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave (translated by Megan McDowell), an extraordinary, unsettling, gothic journey through the world's cemeteries – from Montparnasse to the Jewish cemetery in Prague, from Highgate to the hidden Aboriginal burial ground on Rottnest Island.

Mariana Enriquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, Our Share of Night, which was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela, and A Sunny Place for Shady People. A Netflix adaptation of her short stories are currently in development.

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About the book:

In Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in Paris, Highgate in London, and the Jewish cemetery in Prague, as well as more remote, decrepit, hidden, or secretly beautiful ones. These pages are full of the graves of famous figures – Elvis in Memphis, Karl Marx in London – mournful sculptures, traces of voodoo, catacombs, skeletons and an array of legends and stories. Mariana's personal journey weaves through haunting narratives, transforming burial grounds into spaces of reflection, obsession, and emotional discovery between the living and the dead.

From the haunting statues of Staglieno in Genoa to the eerie silence of Rottnest Island's hidden Aboriginal cemetery, Enriquez's narrative shifts effortlessly between travelogue, essay, and memoir. In her unique voice, cemeteries transform into living, breathing places of reflection, obsession and revelation. As she roams, each cemetery becomes a lens through which she examines everything from colonial violence to the strange rituals surrounding death.

'Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take you by the hand and lead you for a long traipse among tilting tombstones, dank crypts, and chilling history' – Joe Hill

'Enríquez, when she does just enough, is pretty much unbeatable' – A.K. Blakemore

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