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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Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas

Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Can we reclaim Englishness?

Cairn by Kathleen Jamie

Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Marking the way

Cull of the Wild: Killing in the name of conservation by Hugh Warwick

Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Ecology with compassion for all

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

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 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

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

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?

Between the Chalk and the Sea by

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

Black Earth Podcast by Marion Atieno Osieyo

Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Rooted in Science and the Black Experience

Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency by

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

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

Drinkable Rivers: How the River Became My Teacher by Becca Blease

Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Streams of Connectivity

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez

Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > A Lifetime of Observations

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

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

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

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 That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach

Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Active Hope

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

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

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Sonit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua

Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Change is More than Possible

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

Possible: Ways to Net Zero by Chris Goodall

Issue 345 • July/August 2024 > Reviews > Rebalancing to reach neutral

Radical Love: From Separation to Connection with the Earth, Each Other, and Ourselves by Satish Kumar

Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > An Ecology of Love

Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and our Planet into Shape by Henry Dimbleby & Jemima Lewis

Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Remodelling Our Food System

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

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

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 Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big by

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

The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China by Freya Mathews

Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Ancient Earth Philosophies

The Gathering Place: A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times by Mary Colwell

Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > Step by Step, Thought by Thought

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

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

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 Seasoned Gardener: Exploring the Rhythm of the Gardening Year by

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

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

Tree Stories: How Trees Plant Our World and Connect Our Lives by Stefano Mancuso

Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > The Case for Sylvan Cities

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