Witch’s Forest by Sandra Lawrence (HB)

Author: Sandra Lawrence, 208 pages, 200 illustrations, 217 x 157 mm. Hardback, ISBN 9781802795370, Welbeck Publishing in association with Kew Publishing, 2023.

Step into the enchanted forest with Witch’s Forest: Trees in Magic, Folklore and Traditional Remedies, the newest edition in the highly successful series including Witch’s Garden and The Magic of Mushrooms. Known through time as wild places imbued with power and mystery, forests conjure stories of magical mischief and otherworldly creatures. Explore the long-established links between humans and trees through a folkloric lens, from birch broomsticks to the Tree of Life.

Sandra Lawrence is a journalist and author. She writes for the Evening Standard, Guardian, Financial Times, Times, Londonist.com and the English Garden. She is the London columnist for British Heritage magazine and is on the Q&A panel of experts for History Revealed magazine. She is the author of Witch’s Garden and The Magic of Mushrooms.