Tall Trees Short Stories: Volume 21 is a collection of 18 extraordinary multi-genre tales exploring our relationship with trees and the natural world.
Following the success of the first collection, this second volume of short stories by celebrated tree author Gabriel Hemery, gifts us a rare view of nature. Whether from the heady heights of love or from the perspective of an intergalactic being, the book offers glimpses into the past, quirky perspectives of the present, and believable futures, which will take root in all readers.
Table des matières
Author’s Note x
Fin 1
Woodlore for Young Assassins 21
The Sawyers: 29
The Fording 43
In Plane View 55
The Cooper’s Tale 77
Tree Angel 85
Darkness into Light 95
Fulcrumosity 11
Petrified 119
Wild Child 123
Woodcock Moon 127
Tall Stories Short Trees 133
Fragments 139
The Wipers Tree 145
The Sitter 153
Oxbridge Environmental Dictionary 161
Quercus 175
The Tree Commandments 205
Books by Gabriel Hemery 209
About the Author 213
Acknowledgements 214
A propos de l’auteur
Dr Gabriel Hemery is a silvologist (forest scientist), author, and tree photographer. His first book, The New Sylva, was published by Bloomsbury to wide acclaim in 2014. Turning to fiction in 2016, his short story Don’t Look Back was published in the anthology Arboreal (Little Toller Books). In 2019, his first full-length novel Green Gold (Unbound) was published with an accompanying exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In 2020 he published a collection of environmental tales in Tall Trees Short Stories Vol.20.
Gabriel co-founded the Sylva Foundation in 2009 and has since led the environmental charity as its Chief Executive. He is also a founding trustee of Fund4Trees, an arboreal charity working with urban trees and children. Gabriel has written more than 90 technical articles, cited in 900 papers by other scientists. He has planted more than 100, 000 trees in his career. During 2010-11 he campaigned with six other leading environmentalists, successfully saving England’s public forests from government disposal. In 2017, he helped create and launch the UK Tree Charter. He has served on many advisory boards, including for the Woodland Trust and Forestry Commission.
Gabriel writes a top-ranking tree blog which features news about his books and photography, and he appears regularly in the media talking or writing about trees.
www.Gabriel Hemery.com