Boiled Branches, Green Wood: A Book of Trespassers

By Sam Redlark

The arrival of uninvited guests and the encroachment on forbidden places are the common threads binding this themed anthology of short stories.

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.

Boiled Branches, Green Wood can be read out of order, or as a sequence of overlapping tales where denial and submission yield to acceptance and resistance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQPRJ5NY
• ISBN13: 9798298835992
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"