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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Environmental Thought: A Short History by Robin Attfield
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Cry From the Heart
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic by Hugh Brody
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > The Ties That Bind
Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night
On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation by Kim Samuel
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Humans Long to Connect
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
The Darkness Manifesto: How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life by Johan Eklöf
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night
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
What We Owe the Future: A Million-year View by William MacAskill
Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Shaky Moral Framework
Reviews from the past year
A Bigger Picture: My Flight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Amplifying the Voices of African Activists
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
Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: Navdanya's Research on Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change by Vandana Shiva
Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Diversity on the Farm
Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation by Sudeep Sen
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Poetry in the Time of Covid
Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness by Sicelo Mbatha
Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Spirit Guide
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
Dawn of an Era of Well-being by Ervin László and Frederick Tsao
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Separation is an Illusion
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Missing Meals
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
Fledgling by Hannah Bourne-Taylor
Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Purpose and Magic
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Design for Life
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
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Planning for the Planet
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Volumes 1-5) by Gavin van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (eds.)
Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > A Planetary Tangle of Relations
Landed Podcast by Farmerara Radio
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Deep Digging on the Family Farm
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
Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Extinction and Rebirth
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis by Sally Weintrobe
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Colluding with Exceptionalism
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
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > We Need to Talk
Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell
Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Lost Frequencies
Subtle Agroecologies: Farming with the Hidden Half of Nature by Julia Wright and Nicholas Parrott (eds)
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > The Invisible Dimension of Farming
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > A Force of Grace
The Boys Who Said NO!: Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War by Judith Ehrlich
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Hell No, We Won't Go
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Within the Climate Emergency
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > The Origins of Equality
The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism by Richard Seymour
Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > An Ecological Awakening
The Entangled Activist: Learning to Recognise the Master's Tools by Anthea Lawson
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Out of Our Systems
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Telling Time
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 Nation of Plants: A Radical Manifesto for Humans by Stefano Mancuso
Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Planting Ideas
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > The Spice of Life
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 Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts
Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Fascism and Climate Crisis
The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present by Alison Richard
Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > A Love Song to Madagascar
We Have a Dream by Mya-Rose Craig
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > An Anthem for Climate Justice
Yikes by Podcast hosted by Mikaela Loach and Josephine Becker
Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > What's Big and Scary?
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