Marshland

By Gareth E. Rees

'Layered London, black, funny, marshy, full of horrible vigour & hidden channels.'
- M. John Harrison.

'Marshland is essential reading - a psychedelic trip into London's secret wilderness.'
- John Rogers

'I had become a bit part in the dengue-fevered fantasy of a sick city.'

Cocker spaniel by his side, Gareth E. Rees wanders the marshes of Hackney, Leyton, and Walthamstow, avoiding his family and the pressures of life.

He discovers a lost world of Victorian filter plants, ancient grazing lands, dead toy factories and tidal rivers on the edgelands of a rapidly changing city.

As strange tales of bears, crocodiles, magic narrowboats, and apocalyptic tribes begin to manifest, Rees embarks on a psychedelic journey across time and into the dark heart of London itself.

First published by Influx Press in 2013, Marshland is a deep map of the east London marshes where nothing it as it seems, blending local history, folklore, and weird fiction in a genre-straddling classic of contemporary place writing

This fully revised and expanded 2024 edition features brand-new material and never before-seen photographs from the author's archive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914391284
• ISBN13: 9781914391286
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Influx Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"