The Frozen Thames is exactly what the title states - short little fictional vignettes (but based on documented events) about each year that the Thames has frozen. The time frame begins in 1142 and runs to 1927, and the subjects vary from the Black Death, the King being driven in his coach down the frozen river, a stone carver carving a gravestone for a child killed by an icicle, and a composer writing a symphony for the frozen river. Frost Fairs and frozen birds are recurrent happenings. This is quite an original idea, but it is the oddest little book!

The author's note states that "This book is intended as a long meditation on the nature of ice. Each story is a story of transformation, as ice itself is the result of a transformative process. Because of climate change, brought on by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we are in danger of losing ice from our world." If you are looking for a meditation on the nature of ice on the Thames, you will certainly find it here (and probably no place else)!