Finding The Plot by Ann Treneman
The Tibetans have the Book of the Dead. This is Ann Treneman's Book of the 'Dead Interesting'. The award-winning Times writer, best known for her incisive parliamentary sketches, has branched out - to graveyards.In this whirlwind tour of the 100 most fascinating graves in Britain, you'll meet the real War Horse, Byron and his dog Boatswain, Florence Nightingale and her pet baby owl Athena, prime ministers, queens and kings, highwaymen, scientists, mistresses, the real James Bond and, of course, M. Then there are the writers, painters, poets, rakes and rogues, victims, the meek and the mild and the just plain mad.Ranging from the humorous to the poignant, each short and sweet stop along the way provides an intriguing insight into the British way of death. Part travelogue, part biography and part social history, Finding the Plot is essential reading for everyone who isn't dead yet.
'The most fun I have ever had with dead bodies' - Bill Bryson; 'Ann Treneman proves in this delightful as well as weirdly uplifting book, it's quite possible to be funny about death without tipping too far into flippancy.. [This book] is a small victory for a different view of death, in its own quirky way.' - Mail on Sunday; 'Death, as the saying goes, becomes her - and in Ann Treneman's case, this intriguing dip-in-dip-out tome does illuminating work with a varied cast of the great and the good.' - Daily Mail; "Graving" may sound like a gloomy activity but Treneman's fascinating trawl through burial sites proves it is anything but.' - The Observer; 'A lovely idea, festooned with good stories.' - The Guardian; "It's dead good." - The Times
Ann Treneman is an award-winning journalist who is the chief theatre critic for The Times and was their parliamentary sketch-writer for more than ten years. She has also worked as a feature writer for The Times and The Independent and was previously foreign editor of The Observer. Born in America, she has lived in Britain for the past thirty years. She is the author of three books of parliamentary sketches: Annus Horribilis: The Worst Year in British Politics (2009), Dave & Nick: The Year of the Honeymoon (2011) and All In This Together: My Five Years as a Political Stalker (2015).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781785900396 |
| ISBN 10 | 1785900390 |
| Title | Finding The Plot |
| Author | Ann Treneman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Biteback Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-03-23 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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