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An evening with… Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
March 25 @ 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
£10.00 – £30.00
Join us for an evening with Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, who will be in conversation with Tom Bullough, author of Sarn Helen. This is an event not to be missed! All tickets include a glass of wine or soft drink and there will be the opportunity to ask questions and have books signed.
About Our Oaken Bones
Reeling from the pain of devastating miscarriages and suffering from PTSD after military adventures in Afghanistan, Merlin and his wife Lizzie decide to leave the bustle of London and return to Merlin’s childhood home, a Cornish hill farm called Cabilla in the heart of Bodmin Moor. There, they are met by unexpected challenges: a farm slipping ever further into debt, the discovery that the overgrazed and damaged woods running throughout the valley are in fact one of the UK’s last remaining fragments of Atlantic temperate rainforest, and the sudden and near catastrophic strickening by Covid of Merlin’s father, the explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison. As they fall more in love with the rainforest that Merlin had adventured in as a child, so begins a fight to save not only themselves and their farm, but also one of the world’s most endangered habitats. Our Oaken Bones is an honest and intimate true story about renewal, the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return.
“Weaving folklore with science, heartbreak with hope, this beautiful book is at once a personal journey of grief and recovery, an account of ancient woods and their mysteries, and a powerful call to arms. It shows us not just that our precious woods can heal the planet, but that they can heal us too. Inspiring.” Sarah Langford, author of Rooted
About Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
Merlin is a Cornish conservationist and veteran who founded The Thousand Year Trust, Britain’s rainforest charity. The charity’s mission is to catalyse the movement to triple Britain’s rainforest cover to one million acres in the next thirty years. His work has been featured in National Geographic, the Guardian and on the BBC.
About Tom Bullough
Tom is the author of four novels: A, The Claude Glass, Konstantin, and Addlands. His fifth book, Sarn Helen, is a study of Welsh history and the climate crisis, was named Wales Book of the Year 2024. He grew up on a Radnorshire hill farm and has worked as a journalist, sawmiller, screenwriter, contributor to the Rough Guides, tractor driver, T-shirt salesman, Zimbabwean music promoter, and university fellow. He now lives in Bannau Brycheiniog with his children, and his passion is anything that might help to mitigate the Climate and Ecological Emergency.