ALSO ON THE BOOKSHELF
Jul 07, 2022
2 minutes
WORDS BY MATT ELTON
FICTION
Dark Earth
by Rebecca Stott
(Fourth Estate, 352 pages, £14.99)
Drowned world
On an island in the middle of the Thames, sisters Isla and Blue watch for boats heading in from the sea. It’s AD 500 and here, in the shadow of a half-ruined, abandoned Londinium, an untimely death forces them to navigate the currents of submerged secrets and forbidden
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