Time Song - Julia Blackburn

Shortlisted For The Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2019 Shortlisted For The Hessell-tiltman Prize For History 2020 Julia Blackburn Has Always Collected Things That Hold Stories About The Past, Especially The Very Distant Past: Mammoth Bones, Little Shells That Happen To Be Two Million Years Old, A Flint Shaped As A Weapon Long Ago. Time Song Brings Many Such Stories Together As It Tells Of The Creation, The Existence And The Loss Of A Country Now Called Doggerland, A Huge And Fertile Area That Once Connected The Entire East Coast Of England With Mainland Europe, Until It Was Finally Submerged By Rising Sea Levels Around 5000 Bc. Blackburn Mixes Fragments From Her Own Life With A Series Of Eighteen 'songs' And All Sorts Of Stories About The Places And The People She Meets In Her Quest To Get Closer To An Understanding Of Doggerland.