Shadowlands av Matthew Green

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<p><b><i>THE TIMES </i>TOP 10 BESTSELLER<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE</b><br><br><font><b><i>Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.<br><br>This is the forgotten history of Britain''s lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands</i>.</b></font><br><br>''A beautiful book, truly original . . . It is a marvellous achievement.''<br><b>IAN MORTIMER</b>, author of <i>The Time Traveller''s Guide to Medieval England<br></i><br>''Well researched, beautifully written and packed with interesting detail.''<br><b>CLAIRE TOMALIN</b><br><br>''An exquisitely written, moving and elegiac exploration.''<br><b>SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB<br></b><br>''Consistently interesting . . . Green¿s passion and historical vision bursts from the page, summoning up the past in surround sound and sensual prose.''<br><b>CAL FLYN, </b><i><b>THE TIMES</b></i>(author of <i>Islands of Abandonment</i>)<br><br>Historian Matthew Green travels across Britain to tell the f