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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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

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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