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... Happy American Publication Day to the brilliant historian @drmatthewgreen and his book SHADOWLANDS. Released into the US and Canada today by @w.w.norton. 🎉🍾👏👏 Selected as one of their #BestBooks of July, @applebooks describes SHADOWLANDS as an "astonishing history of vanished British villages...even better than a whodunit; it’s a what-happened that both mystery lovers and history fans will love." “If you told me that British historian Matthew Green was some kind of delightful English Calvino who’d conjured up an odd fictional encyclopedia of disappeared cities, lost towns, and ghostly villages, I’d still want to read this book...[I]t is worth spending a little time with history’s stark examples of time’s dominion over us all." ― @diamond_jonny, Literary Hub "Through these slices of British history, Green has woven a moving exploration of impermanence, memory, and the hypnotic allure of the past." ― Sara Shreve, @library_journal (starred review) "Shadowlands is so well researched, beautifully written, and packed with interesting detail. Matthew Green is both historian and prophet, offering a warning we need to pay attention to.... Alarming and valuable." ― Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life