Damian Le Bas, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for his debut title—The Stopping Places—has had his sophomore title, The Drowned Places, selected for a Kindle Daily Deal.

It will be available for £1.99! Don’t miss out; grab your copy here.

Born by the sea and enchanted from a young age by the idea of underwater voyages, Damian was warned off them by relatives—Gypsies, travellers of the land who feared the power of the ocean.

Then he married into a family of divers. They’d seen things that sounded fantastical. Vertigo-inducing tunnels of blackness. Huge sea-creatures. Walls of eels, and ghostly wrecks.

Most haunting of all were the drowned places: ruins where humans had once lived, now entombed in the weight of water and home to the life of the sea. Under threat of rising seas, more places face this fate. Do their mysterious predecessors have anything to teach us?

The Drowned Places is out now. Order your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop and Bookshop.org.