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and a literary postcard from the buzzing, bookish city of Accra.

But we begin a little further back in time, 20,000 years, in fact, as a fertile

stretch of earth we now call doggar land begins to take shape. This is how the landscape

forms, by increments, by the steady acquisition of layers. First, the ice pulls back like curling fingers, leaving bare rock and frozen

ground. The world stripped back to its bones. Then pale flecks appear, pollen grains blown north.

They land and settle, gathering in the cracks like snow. They wait for enough warmth

to split open, enough moisture to put down roots. They gather in the cracks, waiting for the real

snow to thaw. The cold softening, plants on the move, seeds and spores carried on feather and fur,

on feet and in feces, taking root in deeper soil, thistle and napweed, cranesbill and

stalk bill, wild fern, wild parsonip, goose foot and wormwood spread out across the land.

Author's Julia Blackburn and Ben Smith reading from two very different new books about the submerged area known as Doggerland, which used to connect the east of England to mainland Europe.

Just last week, a crew of British and Belgian scientists set off across the North Sea in an attempt to create a 3D map of this long submerged landscape.

In Julia's book, Time Song, Searching for Doggerland, she weaves her own personal history with a fascination for this landmass.

In his near-future novel, Doggerland, Ben Smith imagines life for two workers on a decaying

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