When Gator starts tappin his toes, all the swamp animals sing to his beat

When Yeardleigh’s papa murders her mama, an unlikely pair steals this city girl to the swamp for safety. Twelve year-old Yeardleigh finds herself left with a

Finding a murderer should be easy when you can ask the corpse who killed them. Every few nights, a swamp at the edge of civilization gives back its dead. When a

Florida has more swamps and marshes than any other state except Alaska. One-third of it is covered with cypress domes, wet prairies, mangrove swamps, sawgrass g

'Bracingly original' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian 'A mixture of travelogue, local history and reportage, Swamp Songs brims with evocative word sketches' Times Liter