Boiled Branches, Green Wood: A Book of Trespassers, (Paperback)

<p>The arrival of uninvited guests and the encroachment on forbidden places are the common threads binding this themed anthology of short stories. </p><p>On the Greek Islands, a remote village falls prey to a gang of fortune tellers. In Northern France, the livelihoods of a pair of farmers are threatened by the whims of a visiting bureaucrat. A waiter and his former tutor search the wilds of Cambridgeshire for a wood planted by the poet, Lord Byron, while in Japan, an engineer from a chain of remote islands, with a string of good deeds to his name, finds himself ushered into the role of prime minister. In London, a group of dead men object to their reburial. On the docks at Galway a fisherman grapples with the legacy of a sea monster. </p><p><i>Boiled Branches, Green Wood</i> can be read out of order, or as a sequence of overlapping tales where denial and submission yield to acceptance and resistance.</p>

• Boiled Branches, Green Wood: A Book of Trespassers, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798298835992
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-10-10
• Page Count: 238