Hollow Tree Books is an independent publisher based in Whitby, North Yorkshire. It was founded in 2010, though its first publication (Beside the Sea, a booklet about Lewis Carroll's time in Whitby) was not on shelves until 2011. Hollow Tree Books specialises in local interest publications relating to Whitby and the surrounding area. The first fiction published by Hollow Tree Books was The Apple Tree by Annie Dove, a novel set in a fictional Whitby yard.