Doggerland

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As the old man’s cough worsens and the supply of tins starts to run low, the boy ponders the possibility of his own escape from the wind farm. Players command small forces of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and other… stranger… troops on the Doggerland Front. Spirits are high among her team at the wrap party, though Karen is less than impressed with the simpering singer.

It's not clear who for and why all this power is being generated - is there still civilisation on land somewhere?

If speculative fiction can be judged on the plausibility of its scenarios and the relatability of its characters’ actions and motivations, Doggerland seems likely to stand the test of time. Female bodies appear solely as grotesque fertility figurines in the old man’s collection of relics – “headless torsos with jutting breasts and smooth fat thighs that stirred strange thoughts [the boy] didn’t know he possessed. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The way Ben Smith’s prose flows reminded me of the ocean – something that has to be intentional given that the North Sea is as much of a protagonist as the three other people in this novel.

Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB.Jem and Greil’s attachment to the ruined wind farm is reluctant, but time seems to have blurred their vocations into an attitude of unquestioning survivalism; an unseen authority incarcerates them offshore, and like weary Robinson Crusoes stuck on a prison moon, they might as well get on with it. Greil knows the facts about the father’s disappearance but has become apathetic, spending days trawling the shallow seabed for plastic debris and ancient artefacts of submerged Doggerland, the Neolithic land bridge which connected the east of England to the European continent thousands of years ago. This beautifully crafted novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival, is as haunting as it is compelling – a very special debut indeed. In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland.