Doggerland

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This is a story about men and fathers, the faint consolation of routine, and the undying hope of finding out what lies beyond the horizon. They are supposed to be there to maintain the old and increasingly unreliable generators on an offshore wind farm, and their only contact with the outside world is through the corrupt trader who occasionally visits in a supply ship. It is a book I can see many people loving and I hope many people will pick it up – because it is so very well done and so interestingly told. Spirits are high among her team at the wrap party, though Karen is less than impressed with the simpering singer. Besides the personal ambition of escaping and finding out his father’s fate, Jem asks himself relatively few questions about the world in which he finds himself.

Whether it’s the way the old man dredges the polluted sea with his nets hoping to fish up relics of a past lost beneath the waves.The struggle to keep the turbines working with limited resources becomes an image of the losing battle against the rising oceans, at once awesome and terrible in their vastness. Jem elects to fulfil his father’s intentions and leave the windfarm for the unknown freedom of the coast, but he becomes caught in a terrifying storm that drives his vessel far through the turbine range. Doggerland neither charts our path into the outrun of the climate crisis, nor offers a route to collectively avoid it. Speculative fiction strongly displays the immediate paranoias and dreads of the time in which it is written; the population explosion fears examined in the work of Harry Harrison or John Brunner during the 1960s are not such modish subjects any more. The Mesolithic hunter-gatherers lived in a rich, but constantly changing world – to which they successfully adapted.

When leaving the rig they each stack tins in complex security measures at the doors to their rooms to try and detect any signs of trespass by the co-worker while they were away. At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills.It is a memorable read and I was fascinated by the exploration of life far away from civilization, the scenes of survival in a harsh setting and the loneliness of living in a confined space at times even felt reminiscent of our lockdown times, albeit much, much worse of course.

The Boy fishes with a makeshift line that catches only floating plastic and old boots and throws himself with professional pride into the hopeless task of maintaining the dwindling field of still functional wind turbines. He had knotted and unknotted a strap on the bag he was holding - he must have been leaving to go out to the farm that day. The Road meets Waiting for Godot : powerful, unforgettable, unique’ Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time.At the end of the last Ice Age, the first modern humans also left their traces here, including the famous Leman-and-Ower-Banks spearhead – the first documented Doggerland find – and some of the oldest art in the region. It is clear that author Ben Smith set out to create a circular narrative – with the idea that, despite change, things will always revert to the way they were in time – and he has been successful in this aim.