Monoray scoops Noah Angell's Ghosts of the British Museum

Monoray has scooped Ghosts of the British Museum from Noah Angell. 

Jake Lingwood acquired UK Commonwealth rights from Zoe Ross at United Agents. The book will be published in April 2024. 

Pitched as a book which "fuses storytelling, folklore and history", Ghosts of the British Museum "digs deep into our imperial past and unmasks the world’s oldest national museum as a site of ongoing conflict, where under the guise of preservation, restless objects are held against their will". 

Angell commented: "Ghosts of the British Museum lays out in great detail that the museum is haunted, and that these hauntings are symptomatic of a deep disharmony that must be addressed. I hope this book will help people to rethink the institution of the museum fundamentally, as not a mere ’collection of objects’, but as a place that enshrines the destruction of worlds, and which continues to hold ancestral beings captive.”

Lingwood added: "Yes, it’s a collection of weird goings-on in the museum – but through his retelling, Noah cleverly shows us how the institution itself is deeply problematic and in real crisis. Whether or not you believe in ghosts, I think this highly readable book is much more important that it may at first seem. However you want to read it it’s clear that much of the contents of the museum should not be there, and the result is a profound disorder, be it supernatural, historical or political. A very special book."