Merlin Hanbury-Tenison’s debut book, Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests was published to wide acclaim in March 2025, and was shortlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.
Merlin established The Thousand Year Trust, a charity dedicated to tripling the amount of Atlantic temperate rainforest growing in the UK over the next 30 years.
Merlin has written for publications including The Spectator and Green Spirit and his work at Cabilla has featured in outlets including National Geographic, BBC Travel and the Guardian.
