The extraordinary Mariana Enríquez returns to Foyles Charing Cross Road for the London launch of her macabre meditation on the world’s famous graveyards, Someone is Walking on Your Grave.
From Montparnasse to Highgate to the Jewish cemetery in Prague, Mariana Enríquez’s wandering and illuminating account of famous graveyards combines journalist rigour with fascinating personal reflection from one of the world’s finest and most original chroniclers of the living and the dead.
Mariana Enríquez 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 and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Our Share of Night was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela.
A. K. Blakemore is a poet and novelist from London. Her first novel, The Manningtree Witches, won the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the Costa and RSL Ondaatje Prizes. Her second novel, The Glutton, was published by Granta Books in 2023.
The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
Image Credits: Enríquez by Ariel Grinberg; Blakemore by Alice Zoo