A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER amplsquoTender fascinating amphellip Lucid and illuminatingamprsquoamp160Robert Macfarlane Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality how they felt about loss what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts to deviant burials with heads rearranged from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Walesamp160Buriedamp160provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain. As she did with her prehistory of Britain inamp160Ancestors Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cuttingedge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived by examining the stories of the dead. amp160