He explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema, from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M.
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. 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. To watch the short film Edward made for our NCBF At Home season, click here.’A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare 'An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. To watch Edward on ITV talking about how ghost stories can offer comfort go to. His novel The Listeners was the winner of the Rethink New Novels Prize.įollow Edward on Twitter: can find out more about Edward and his work and read his blogs on. He has been the recipient of an Escalator Award from the National Centre for Writing and a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship. Edward will be in conversation with the novelist and memoirist, Cathy Rentzenbrink.Įdward Parnell lives near Norwich and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Benson in Truro and the atmospheric vistas of the Land’s End Peninsula.
Cornwall also plays a strong role in Ghostland, with visits to the childhood home of E. But as Ed revisits the scenes of his memories, the book also becomes a meditation on the rich British heritage of ghostly or sinister fiction and the landscapes forever associated with the likes of M R James and Alan Garner. Edward Parnell’s Ghostland is an affecting memoir of his fenland boyhood and the shadows cast over it by illness and bereavement.
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