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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Floodlines by Alice Bell
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Up Close and Personal
Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the 21st Century by Anita Roy and Pippa Marland (eds)
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > The Arts > Climate Talks
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Eye of the Storm
How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Rational Thinking
Learning to Lead Together: An Ecological and Community Approach by Jane Riddiford
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Rebuilding Connection
The Eternal Season: Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future by Stephen Rutt
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > The Arts > Climate Talks
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > The Crossroads of Wonder and Despair
Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Regulars > Letters to the Editors > Letters to the Editor
Reviews from the past year
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agriculutural Diversity and a Shared Earth by Chris Smaje
Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Seeds of Resilience
A Spell in the Wild: A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic by Alice Tarbuck
Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Magic for Strange Times
A Still Life: A Memoir by Joise George
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Small, Wonderful World
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
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
Communities of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe by Diego Ruiz Hidalgo and Lou Salomon
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Ecovillage People
Competition is Killing Us: How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It by Michelle Meager
Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > A Question of Power
Earthed by Rebecca Schiller
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Soil and Soul
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Growing Pains
Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > The Last Word
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Talking Trees
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
Hope in Hell: A Decade to Confront the Climate Emergency by Jonathon Porritt
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > A Useful Guide to Hope
How They Made Us Doubt Everything by Peter Pomerantsev
Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Stalling for Profit
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Billionaire's Take
How to Disagree: Negotiating Difference in a Divided World by Adam Ferner and Darren Chetty
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > How Can We Agree?
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > A Kind of Hope
I Am Greta: B-Reel Films by Nathan Grossman
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > From the Beginning
Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Rising Up From History
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-human Landscape by Cal Flyn
Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Brave New Future
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Lust for Land
Make It Happen: How to Be an Activist by Amika George
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Guide to Success
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis by Marina Sitrin & Colectiva Sembrar (eds.)
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Kindness Amid Crisis
Parents for a Future by Rupert Read
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Big Ask
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Growing Pains
Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being by Alastair McIntosh
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Guiding Spirit
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Between Science and Knowledge
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > The Warrior Saint
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 Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines That Divide Us by Nick Hayes
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Taking Back The Land
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Care Under Capitalism
The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese
Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Taking on an Empire
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
The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Home Alone
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Peter Abbs
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > In Defence of Eco-poetry
The Next Great Migration: The Story of Movement on a Changing Planet by Sonia Shah
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Migration: A Climate Solution
The Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth by Judith D Schwartz
Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Brave New Future
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Beyond the Path
Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald
Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > H is For Humanity
White Riot by Rubika Shah
Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Rock Against Racism
Who Cares Wins by Lily Cole
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Who Cares Who Wins?
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