When James Coverleigh builds a huge mausoleum called ‘Valhalla’, and attempts to persuade people to give up the burial rite for a permanent place on a shelf, he stimulates the opposition into pursuing their own ideas of new-style burial. Between them they manage to take the dignity out of dying, and turn the state of death into a circus. This is a bizarre foray into the unknown, an irreverent romp through those rituals and institutions we’ve always taken for granted. Guaranteed to shock, amuse and surprise. A novel of 320 pages.