Book reviews
We present a selection of our reviews covering significant, groundbreaking books and films that are often ignored by the mainstream media. The reviews include those that have been published in the magazine and additional reviews that for reasons of space we were unable to publish in the magazine.
Reviews from the past year are shown below. Older reviews are listed separately. Reviews can also be located through our article archive search facility.
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Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms by Amy Stewart
Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > A web of woodland wonder
Land Smart: How to Give People and Nature the Space to Thrive by Tom Heap
Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > The great food puzzle
Not One Left: Why the World Needs More Children by Paul Morland
Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > (Anti-)Natalism?
Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World by Danny Sriskandarajah
Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > Tell me you can hear it, stronger by the hour
Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation by Danny Dorling
Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > (Anti-)Natalism?
The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Richard Fortey
Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > The strange, enchanting life of tree collectors
We Need to Talk about Climate: How Citizen's Assemblies Can Help Us Solve the Climate Crisis by Graham Smith
Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > Citizens assembly for change
Whose Planet? The Climate Justice Podcast by Nani Jansen Reventlow
Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > Elevating marginalised voices
Reviews from the past year
Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice by Joyce D’Silva
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > A Fundamental Failure?
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas
Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Can we reclaim Englishness?
Black Earth Podcast by Marion Atieno Osieyo
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Rooted in Science and the Black Experience
Cairn by Kathleen Jamie
Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Marking the way
Change Everything: How We Can Rethink, Repair and Rebuild Society by Natalie Bennett
Issue 345 • July/August 2024 > Reviews > Radical Change
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi
Issue 344 • May/June 2024 > Reviews > Action, dreaming and determination
Constellation of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice by Cindy Barukh Milstein
Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > Existing as resisting
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the name of conservation by Hugh Warwick
Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Ecology with compassion for all
Drinkable Rivers: How the River Became My Teacher by Becca Blease
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Streams of Connectivity
Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by John Vidal
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > The Connections that Kill and that Cure
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > The Legacy of Oil
H is for Hope by Elizabeth Kolbert
Issue 345 • July/August 2024 > Reviews > R is for realism
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The Lost History of Wolves in Britain and the Myths and Stories that Surround them by Derek Gow
Issue 345 • July/August 2024 > Reviews > Rebalancing the role of the wolf
If I Ruled the World (podcast) by Gillian Burke
Issue 345 • July/August 2024 > Reviews > Power to the People
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
Issue 344 • May/June 2024 > Reviews > How to plan beyond the rebellion
Imagining Tomorrow by Emma Newman
Issue 344 • May/June 2024 > Reviews > Small but mighty wins
In All Weathers: IA Journey through Rain, Fog, Wind, Ice and Everything in Between by Matt Gaw
Issue 345 • July/August 2024 > Reviews > Dancing in the Rain
It’s Not Just You: How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis by Tori Tsui
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > We're in this Together
Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > Centering Care
Mothers of Invention: Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal & Sue Scott
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Mothers of Invention
Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell (ed.)
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > Since the Great Frost
Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back by Sophie Yeo
Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Ecology of the past and future
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
Issue 344 • May/June 2024 > Reviews > Data-rich, but action-poor
Once Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate by Kate Bradbury
Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > The promise of wilder gardens
Once Upon a Raven’s Nest: A Life on Exmoor in an Epoch of Change by Catrina Davies
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > A Real Portrait of Rural Life
Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis by Michael Mann
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > On the Brink
Political Heat by Amy Mount
Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > Making sense of climate politics
Possible: Ways to Net Zero by Chris Goodall
Issue 345 • July/August 2024 > Reviews > Rebalancing to reach neutral
Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures by Evie Muir
Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > From exhaustion to hope
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future by Chris Smaje
Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > Back into the hands of the 'small'
Starborn: How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta
Issue 344 • May/June 2024 > Reviews > Our universal connection to the stars
The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet by Carlos Moreno
Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > A bird’s-eye view of a novel concept for cities
The Bridleway: How Horses Shaped the British Landscape by Tiffany Francis-Baker
Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > Be more horse
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism by George Mobiot and Peter Hutchison
Issue 345 • July/August 2024 > Reviews > Private sufficiency and public luxury
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? by Guy Shrubsole
Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > Right to roam. Right to own?
The Next Supercontinent: TSolving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea by Ross Mitchell
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Shape of the Future
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet by Brett Christophers
Issue 344 • May/June 2024 > Reviews > Action, dreaming and determination
The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes our Minds, Brains and Bodies by Clayton Page Aldern
Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > The cognitive symptoms of a warming world
The Wild Remedy Journal: Finding Wellness in Nature by Emma Mitchell
Issue 344 • May/June 2024 > Reviews > A seasonal thread of natural connections
The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals: Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young
Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Don't Judge a Sheep by its Flock
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan
Issue 344 • May/June 2024 > Reviews > Worlds of meaning
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet
Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > The complexity of love, in all its forms
We will not be saved: A memoir of Hope and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest by Nomont Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson
Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > The frontline of the Amazon
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