Some Rise By Sin

In 1829, Burke and Hare were convicted of killing people to sell their bodies, but doctors still need fresh corpses for medical research. Sammy and Facey are resurrection men who make a living by hoisting the newly departed from churchyards in London while masquerading as late-night bakers. They receive valuable intelligence about an unusual cadaver, a hermaphrodite, and set out to find it. Some Rise by Sin is a rich, authentic, and absorbing historical narrative with a darker edge, exploring what ambition can mean for poor people in a society that conspires to grind them down.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 412 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2021
Publisher: Deixis Press

This book is a true masterpiece! Some Rise by Sin is a dark, dark book, though often hilarious, and with a masterful voice. You should buy this book immediately. -NICK MAMATAS

Siôn Scott-Wilson seems to be a writer after my own heart. Some Rise By Sin was pretty much impossible to put down... masterfully plotted and presented with indelible characters. -ALAN MOORE

1829 is a tough year to be a body snatcher. Burke and Hare have just been convicted of killing people to sell their bodies, to widespread outrage—but despite the bad press, doctors still need fresh corpses for medical research. Sammy and Facey are a couple of so-called 'resurrection men', making a living among society's fringe-dwellers by hoisting the newly departed from the churchyards of London, whilst masquerading as late-night bakers. Operating on tip-offs and rumours in the capitals drinking dens and fighting pits, the pair find themselves in receipt of some valuable intelligence: an unusual cadaver has popped up on the market, that of a hermaphrodite.

Some Rise by Sin is a rich, authentic, and absorbing historical narrative with a darker edge, a story of surviving on the outskirts of respectability. With echoes of Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, it is meticulously researched and suffused with the dark and grimy atmosphere of Regency London, and explores what ambition can mean for poor people in a society that conspires to grind them down at every turn.

Weight: 460g
Dimension: 126 x 202 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838498719