In her first work of non-fiction translated into English, the Argentine novelist and journalist Mariana Enríquez — who has been described by The New York Times as a “sorceress of horror” — takes us on a journey through cemeteries around the world, from Staglieno in Genoa, which is renowned for its statues and monuments, to Rottnest Island in Western Australia, where an estimated 373 Aboriginal prisoners who died in custody are buried in unmarked graves. Somebody is Walking on Your Grave (Granta, £20) was reviewed in the FTWeekend by Lucy Scholes, who says it is “part travelogue, part memoir… part history, myth and legend. Even readers who lack her taste for the macabre will be enticed by Enríquez’s infectious enthusiasm for her subject.”

Enríquez will be talking about the book in a session organised by the National Centre for Writing at The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich, on October 1.