Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.

This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands.

'A beautiful book, truly original . . . It is a marvellous achievement.'

IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

'Well researched, beautifully written and packed with interesting detail.'

CLAIRE TOMALIN

'An exquisitely written, moving and elegiac exploration.'

SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB

'Consistently interesting . . . Green's passion and historical vision bursts from the page, summoning up the past in surround sound and sensual prose.'

CAL FLYN, THE TIMES(author of Islands of Abandonment)

Historian Matthew Green travels across Britain to tell the forgotten history of our lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages. Revealing the extraordinary stories of how these places met their fate - and exploring how they have left their mark on our landscape and our imagination - Shadowlands is a deeply evocative and dazzlingly original account of Britain's past.