Get Ahead of Being Dead
Your Handy Planner for the End of Life
$52.55
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
‘Not only practical, it’s also somehow a great meditation on death. Telling me all sorts of practical stuff in a way I can bear to read. More than bear, I loved it.’ - PHILIPPA PERRY
‘A vitally important book for anyone who thinks they might die at some point. Do not buy this book if you are already dead. It’s too late. Repeat. Do not buy this if you’re dead.’ - RICHARD HERRING
‘I’ve never laughed so much at something so bleak…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804193785 |
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| ISBN-10: | 180419378X |
| Author: | Evie King |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 450g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Evie King
Evie King does not exist, but the person who plays her is a council worker and writer. A former stand-up comedian, she has always written short-form pieces in the margins of her various day jobs, contributing to New Humanist, Guardian Comment Is Free, BBC Comedy, and Viz.
After moving to the seaside and going part-time, she had more time for writing and in 2023 completed her first book, Ashes to Admin, about her job arranging council funerals. It sold over 10,000 copies, was selected by Stewart Lee for the London Review of Books one hundred books for the next twenty years collection, and won the 2025 ASDS (Association for the Study of Death & Society) Award for outstanding and original books in the field of death studies.
She also contributed to the book Words to Live and Die By, a series of death haikus compiled by the acute palliative care team at Warwick Hospital. She is an ambassador for missing persons and cold-case charity Locate International and heads the UK training programme for council funeral workers.
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