Longlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize
This iconic tree once covered great swathes of Europe and North America; now all but a handful have been wiped out by Dutch Elm Disease. The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them is the story of our attempt to save the elm, and how its legacy lives on in our mythology and folklore.
Mandy Haggith lives in a remnant of ancient rainforest in northwest Scotland and spent 20 years as a forest activist, from award-winning local campaigns in Scotland all the way to the United Nations. She is now an honorary research fellow and lecturer in creative writing at the University of the Highlands and Islands.