Guy Stagg

The ghostly ruins of vanished Britain

Deserted islands, abandoned villages and cities eroded by the sea feature in Matthew Green’s haunting survey of Britain’s lost communities

The lost city of Dunwich in a watercolour by Turner, c.1827. [Bridgeman Images]

  • Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain

    Matthew Green

    Faber, pp. 320, £20

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