Let your imagination grow and prepare for a thrilling silvan adventure in this remarkable multi-genre collection of tree stories.
Look out for love and loss, brace for dystopia and utopia, and jump forwards and backwards in time, but beware as you follow the path through the dark forest, nature can have a sting in its tale.
Tall Trees Short Stories is a collection of more than 25 extraordinary tales exploring the natural world and our relationship with it, written by environmentalist and celebrated tree author Gabriel Hemery.
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‘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 for the first time 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. 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.