The End of the Road, which was published on Thursday, offering a unique insight into Britain’s landscape through the stories of its departed, from giants to lion-tamers, shepherds to kings.
It’s a journey that took Cooke thousands of miles, from the Sussex Downs, where a little-known “umbrella” monument guards the memory of Indian soldiers killed in the first world war, to the Isle of Hoy in Scotland, where a fibreglass headstone commemorates an 18th-century suicide – a young woman buried without ceremony in a peat bog, only to be dug up 150 years later perfectly mummified.
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