Katharine Norbury is the author of the debut novel, The Fish Ladder.
For the Guardian, she tagged her top ten books about rivers, including:Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
It too begins on the Thames, with The Nellie, a cruising yawl, as the dream-boat that carries Marlow, employed by “the Company”, as he heads into unmapped territory in search of missing company director, Kurtz. A journey to





