The End of the Road: A journey around Britain in search of the dead

Written by Jack Cooke

Narrated by Paul Hilliar

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous – tombs, graves and burial sites.

Along the way, he launches a daredevil trespass into Highgate Cemetery at night, stumbles across the remains of the Welsh Druid who popularised cremation and has time to sit and ponder the imponderables at the graveside of the Lady of Hoy, an 18th century suicide victim whose body was kept in near condition by the bog in which she was buried. A truly unique, beautifully written and wonderfully imagined book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Feb 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9780008294731

Jack Cooke

Jack Cooke was born in 1985 and lives in London with his wife Jennifer, the book’s illustrator, and his son Bodie. This is his first book.