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Between the Chalk and the Sea by

Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Setting out on the Path

Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency by

Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Hard to Breathe

God is an Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature by

Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Putting Nature Back in Charge

Sarn Helen: A Journey through Wales, Past, Present and Future by

Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Setting out on the Path

The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big by

Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Putting Nature Back in Charge

The Jay, the Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things with My Kids by

Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Finding the Wonder

The Seasoned Gardener: Exploring the Rhythm of the Gardening Year by

Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Holistic Gardening

Reviews from the past year

Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another: Thunderstone by Nancy Campbell

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > A Golden Thread of Community

After the Ithaca: Journeys in Deep Time by Charlotte Du Cann

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Hero's Journey

Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All of Us by Jon Alexander

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Helping Ourselves

Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet by Matthew T Huber

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > The Real Change-makers

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > Debunking the myths

Environmental Thought: A Short History by Robin Attfield

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Cry From the Heart

Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet by John W Reid & Thomas E Lovejoy

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Love Letters to the Forests

Expansion Rebellion: Using the Law to Fight a Runway and Save the Planet by Celeste Hicks

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > The Third Runway Saga

Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change by Ed Davey

Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > Why there's still hope

Fledgling by Hannah Bourne-Taylor

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Purpose and Magic

Garments Without Guilt? : Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels by Kanchana N Ruwanpura

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Made in Sri Lanka

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > Connecting plant threads

Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors by James Canton

Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > Exploring the spiritual nature of environment

Hoofprints on the Land: How Traditional Herding and Grazing Can Restore the Soil and Bring Animal Agriculture Back in Balance with the Earth by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson

Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > The dignity of traditional herding

Hot Take by Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt

Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > A focus on the ongoing injustices

Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic by Hugh Brody

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > The Ties That Bind

Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives by Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > The Road Ahead

Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night

Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince

Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > An urgent call to action

On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation by Kim Samuel

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Humans Long to Connect

Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Extinction and Rebirth

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Eat to Live

Riding Out: A Journey of Love, Loss and New Beginnings by Simon Parker

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > A Golden Thread of Community

Riverwoods by SCOTLAND: The Big Picture

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Fish Out of Water

Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Lost Frequencies

Speculative Futures:: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need by Johanna Hoffman

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Reimagining Our Future

Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian

Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > The miracle of flight

Thanks for Sharing by Eleanor Tucker

Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > The power of sharing

The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Within the Climate Emergency

The Darkness Manifesto: How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life by Johan Eklöf

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night

The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism by Richard Seymour

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > An Ecological Awakening

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan

Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > Unravelling the history of people and planet

The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders Read the Stars by Duane Hamacher

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Night Vision

The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Love Letters to the Forests

The Meat Paradox by Rob Percival

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > The Price of Meat

The Oil Machine by Emma Davie

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > How Oil Took Over Our Lives

The Po: An Elegy for Italy's Longest River by Tobias Jones

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > The Voice of a River

The Restorative Spirit: Illuminating the Soul in a Time of Global Awakening by Mick Collins

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Pilgrimage of the Heart

The Wheel of the Year: Your Nurturing Guide to Discovering Nature's Seasons and Cycles by Rebecca Beattie

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Nurturing With Nature

Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky by Caro Giles

Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > Honest, powerful and raw

What We Owe the Future: A Million-year View by William MacAskill

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Shaky Moral Framework

Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton

Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > The sorrow of separation

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Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > What's Big and Scary?