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.
Latest Reviews
A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time by Stephanie Kaza (ed)
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Celebrating a Great American Tradition
Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > The Last Word
Hope in Hell: A Decade to Confront the Climate Emergency by Jonathon Porritt
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > A Useful Guide to Hope
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis by Marina Sitrin & Colectiva Sembrar (eds.)
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Kindness Amid Crisis
Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being by Alastair McIntosh
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Guiding Spirit
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > The Warrior Saint
The Fossil Woman: A Life of Mary Anning by Tom Sharpe
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Mary Anning Rocks
The Life of the White Mare: Sobriety and Enchantment by Etain Addey
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > The Meaning of Sacrifice
Reviews from the past year
A History of the World in 21 Women : A Personal Selection by Jenni Murray
Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Herstory, Not History
Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat from Wild Grass to World Megacrop by Catherine Zabinski
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Grain of Truth
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Between Science and Knowledge
Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster by Paul Hoggett
Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Out of The Comfort Zone
Communities of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe by Diego Ruiz Hidalgo and Lou Salomon
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Ecovillage People
Dancing With Bees: A Journey Back to Nature by Brigit Strawbridge Howard
Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Bee Inspired
Emperors, Admirals & Chimney Sweepers: The Weird and Wonderful Names of Butterflies and Moths by Peter Marren
Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Rejoice in Insects
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Magic Mushrooms
Film Review: Swarm Season by Sarah Christman
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Nature Cure
Film Review: Swarm Season by Sarah Christman
Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Migrations in Space
Free, Fair and Alice: The Insurgent Power of the Commons by David Bollier | Silke Helfrich
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > All is One
Free, Fair and Alice: The Insurgent Power of the Commons by David Bollier | Silke Helfrich
Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > The Common Good
From What If to What Next: Podcast by Rob Hopkins
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > The Power of Reimagination
Gandhi the Organiser: How He Shaped a Nationwide Rebellion, India 1915-1922 by Bob Overy
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > How to Build a Movement
Global Hive: What the Bee Crisis Teaches Us about Building a Sustainable World by Horst Kornberger
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Voice of a Generation
Global Hive: What the Bee Crisis Teaches Us about Building a Sustainable World by Horst Kornberger
Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Ecolibrium
Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside by Dieter Helm
Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Putting a Price on Nature
How to Save the World for Free by Natalie Fee
Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Flying The Green Flag
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > A Kind of Hope
Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Rising Up From History
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley
Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Going Native
Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis by Jackie Morris
Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Love Mail
Local Is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness: Steps to an Economics of Happiness by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Interdependence is a Beautiful Thing
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Nature Cure
Mothers of Invention: a podcast by Mary Robinson by Mary Robinson
Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Man-made Crisis, Feminist Solutions
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Your House is a Jungle
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > There Is Nothing We Cannot Achieve
Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis: Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena and Beata Ernman, Svante and Greta Thunberg
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Voice of a Generation
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Between Science and Knowledge
Stone Talks by Alyson Hallett
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Listening to Rocks
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Teaching Facts with New Stories
The Accidental Countryside: Hidden Havens for Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > On The Verge
The Birds They Sang: Birds and People in Life and Art by Stanisław Łubieński
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Bird's Eye View
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines That Divide Us by Nick Hayes
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Taking Back The Land
The Divided Brain by Manfred Becker
Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Two Brains Are Better Than One
The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia by Tim Bonyhady
Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Web Exclusives > Review > Of Rats and Men
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little
Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Food Futures
The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand
Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Essence of Fox
The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett and Jackie Morris
Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Celebrating 'Old Nature Writing'
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Peter Abbs
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > In Defence of Eco-poetry
The Natural Health Service: What the Great Outdoors Can Do for Your Mind by Isabel Hardman
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Nature Cure
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Harry Beston
Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Celebrating 'Old Nature Writing'
The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of How We Are Connected and Why That Matters by Tom Oliver
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > All is One
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Beyond the Path
This Land is Our Land by Jedediah Purdy
Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Reshaping The World
Thomas Berry: A Biography by
Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > What is Good For the Meadow
Under the Stars: A Journey into Light: A Journey into Light by Matt Gaw
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > A Quest for Darkness
Wanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape: Wanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape by Jini Reddy
Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > The Spirit of the Land
We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Eating for a Cooler Planet
We Made a Wildflower Meadow by Yvette Verner
Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Leading the Field
White Riot by Rubika Shah
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Rock Against Racism
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