A event on Tuesday 30th September. The event starts at 19:00.
Tuesday 30th September 2025
Anglican Chapel at Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bath Road, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS30 9DG
Doors: 6.30pm, Talk starts: 7pm
We are appropriately awed to welcome this generation's foremost purveyor of the deeply upsetting Mariana Enriquez back to Bristol! Last time she was here we rented out a subterranean crypt for the occasion, so this time we're going one step further and taking over an actual cemetery, the perfect backdrop for discussing her incredible new work of non-fiction, Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave.
Mariana will be introducing us to the cemeteries of her life in the company of author and broadcaster (and Enriquez aficionado) Chris Power, all in the stunning surrounds of Arnos Vale Cemetery, fashioned after a Greek necropolis and home to countless tombs, mausoleums and spectacular monuments.
Spaces for this special event are strictly limited, and with Mariana's international readership we are politely advocating swift and decisive ticket-buying to avoid disappointment.
Pre-order your copy of Someone Is Walking On Your Grave (rrp £20) for a special discounted price with your ticket, then collect on the night!
ABOUT MARIANA ENRIQUEZ
Mariana Enriquez 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.
ABOUT SOMEBODY IS WALKING ON YOUR GRAVE
In Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in Paris, Highgate in London, and the Jewish cemetery in Prague, as well as more remote, decrepit, hidden, or secretly beautiful ones. These pages are full of the graves of famous figures - Elvis in Memphis, Karl Marx in London - mournful sculptures, traces of voodoo, catacombs, skeletons and an array of legends and stories. Mariana's personal journey weaves through haunting narratives, transforming burial grounds into spaces of reflection, obsession, and emotional discovery between the living and the dead.
From the haunting statues of Staglieno in Genoa to the eerie silence of Rottnest Island's hidden Aboriginal cemetery, Enriquez's narrative shifts effortlessly between travelogue, essay, and memoir. In her unique voice, cemeteries transform into living, breathing places of reflection, obsession and revelation. As she roams, each cemetery becomes a lens through which she examines everything from colonial violence to the strange rituals surrounding death.
ABOUT CHRIS POWER
Chris Power is the author of a novel, A Lonely Man, a Washington Post and New Statesman book of the year, and a short story collection, Mothers, which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. His fiction has appeared in Granta, the Stinging Fly and the Dublin Review. He was a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Open Book’ from 2020 to 2024. His criticism has appeared in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the New Statesman, Fantastic Man and the London Review of Books.
He regularly chairs literary events and has taught writing in various capacities, including on the MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. His judging experience includes the Frank O’Connor Prize, the BBC National Short Story Award, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.
He is a judge for the Booker Prize 2025.
For venue access info, click here: https://arnosvale.org.uk/discover/site-info/ or email [email protected]
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Anglican Chapel at Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bath Road, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS30 9DG
Doors: 6.30pm, Talk starts: 7pm
We are appropriately awed to welcome this generation's foremost purveyor of the deeply upsetting Mariana Enriquez back to Bristol! Last time she was here we rented out a subterranean crypt for the occasion, so this time we're going one step further and taking over an actual cemetery, the perfect backdrop for discussing her incredible new work of non-fiction, Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave.
Mariana will be introducing us to the cemeteries of her life in the company of author and broadcaster (and Enriquez aficionado) Chris Power, all in the stunning surrounds of Arnos Vale Cemetery, fashioned after a Greek necropolis and home to countless tombs, mausoleums and spectacular monuments.
Spaces for this special event are strictly limited, and with Mariana's international readership we are politely advocating swift and decisive ticket-buying to avoid disappointment.
Pre-order your copy of Someone Is Walking On Your Grave (rrp £20) for a special discounted price with your ticket, then collect on the night!
ABOUT MARIANA ENRIQUEZ
Mariana Enriquez 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.
ABOUT SOMEBODY IS WALKING ON YOUR GRAVE
In Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in Paris, Highgate in London, and the Jewish cemetery in Prague, as well as more remote, decrepit, hidden, or secretly beautiful ones. These pages are full of the graves of famous figures - Elvis in Memphis, Karl Marx in London - mournful sculptures, traces of voodoo, catacombs, skeletons and an array of legends and stories. Mariana's personal journey weaves through haunting narratives, transforming burial grounds into spaces of reflection, obsession, and emotional discovery between the living and the dead.
From the haunting statues of Staglieno in Genoa to the eerie silence of Rottnest Island's hidden Aboriginal cemetery, Enriquez's narrative shifts effortlessly between travelogue, essay, and memoir. In her unique voice, cemeteries transform into living, breathing places of reflection, obsession and revelation. As she roams, each cemetery becomes a lens through which she examines everything from colonial violence to the strange rituals surrounding death.
ABOUT CHRIS POWER
Chris Power is the author of a novel, A Lonely Man, a Washington Post and New Statesman book of the year, and a short story collection, Mothers, which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. His fiction has appeared in Granta, the Stinging Fly and the Dublin Review. He was a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Open Book’ from 2020 to 2024. His criticism has appeared in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the New Statesman, Fantastic Man and the London Review of Books.
He regularly chairs literary events and has taught writing in various capacities, including on the MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. His judging experience includes the Frank O’Connor Prize, the BBC National Short Story Award, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.
He is a judge for the Booker Prize 2025.
For venue access info, click here: https://arnosvale.org.uk/discover/site-info/ or email [email protected]
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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