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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