C S Robertson and Hayley Campbell - Living and Working with Death
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- Tickets
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£11 (£10 Ticket charge plus 10% booking fee)
- Dates and times
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14th May 2022
4:45PM - 5:45PM
- Age
- Adult, Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
An intriguing mix of fiction and
non-fiction as a best-selling crime writer and a journalist talk about the jobs
related to death.
C S Robertson - The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
When people
die alone and undiscovered, it Grace's job to clean up what's left behind -
whether it's clutter, bodily remains or dark secrets. When an old man lies
undetected in his flat for months, it seems an unremarkable life and an
unnoticed death. But Grace knows that everyone has a story and that all deaths
mean something more.
Hayley Campbell - All the
Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade
Fuelled by a childhood fascination
with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who
make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass
fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible
for ending 62 lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own
graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese
with a detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes
disappear. A dazzling work of
cultural criticism, All the Living and the Dead weaves
together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer readers a
fascinating look into the psychology of Western death.
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