The Good Cemetery Guide — Consuelo Roland

Anthony Loxton, reluctant third-generation funeral director, leads a double life as Tony the Fox, mystery guitarist and heartbreaker in the late-night music bars of Kalk Bay. When Tony's one-night stand, Lily, arrives in a body bag at the Loxton Funeral Parlour, he surprises himself by breaking his own rules. As the boundaries separating the two worlds he has created for himself collapse, there's plenty of collateral damage to handle. And some blessing. But until he can fall in love and exorcise his childhood demons, Anthony won't escape the burden of the past...

In this charming, complex and often moving story, we follow Anthony Loxton as he poignantly struggles to come to terms with himself, the living and the dead, and, indeed, death itself. The Good Cemetery Guide received an honourable mention from the English Academy. Judges described the book as 'an intensely readable creation of story and character'.