The Drowned Land

An epic historical fantasy set in Britain’s distant past, the Drowned Land is the first book in the forthcoming The Doggerland Trilogy (Head of Zeus, March 2023).

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The first novel in an epic trilogy set 8000 years ago during in the last days of Doggerland, the North Sea's Stone-Age Atlantis.

The seasons falter, the sea rises, and tide-by-tide the world shrinks. As the land is poisoned, so too are the minds of men. The young are pitted against the old. Tribe is pitted against tribe. Starvation and pestilence stalk the land. The old ways are abandoned, society collapses, chaos rules.

But worse is yet to come...

The novel tells the story of a refugee who cannot deny her destiny, no matter how hard she tries; of a crippled young man searching for strength, courage and redemption; and of a warrior's desperate will to survive... whatever the cost.

It conjures the dying days of a land, the dying days of an ancient way of life. For this is a historical turning point – even as the sea consumes Doggerland, the Stone Age is waning and hunter-gatherers are giving way to farmers and metal workers, kings and empires. And the only way to survive, is to unite...