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
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Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > What's Big and Scary?
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