SHADOWLANDS: A Journey Through Lost Britain
KIRKDALE BOOKSHOP
in conversation with
MATTHEW GREEN

Join us on Thursday April 13th at 7:30pm as we chat with author and historian Dr Matthew Green about his bestselling, Wainwright Prize shortlisted book SHADOWLANDS: A Journey Through Lost Britain

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training.

A stunning and original excavation of Britain’s untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.

Tickets are £6 each – which covers entry and a signed copy of the book

Tickets have to be booked individually and please have your email receipt at the ready