{"product_id":"9780008271992","title":"Ghostland : In Search of a Haunted Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Parnell, Edward, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 15\/10\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 480 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: William Collins,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Great Britain, Memoirs\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008271992\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death. In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the 'sequestered places' of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores and our folkloric woodlands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema, from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M. R. James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to the children's fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper; from W.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eG. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift's Waterland to the archetypal 'folk horror' film The Wicker Man... Ghostland is Parnell's moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists - and what is haunting him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36716573393049,"sku":"9780008271992","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780008271992.jpg?v=1602693505","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780008271992","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}