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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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Environmental Thought: A Short History by Robin Attfield

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Cry From the Heart

Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic by Hugh Brody

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > The Ties That Bind

Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night

On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation by Kim Samuel

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Humans Long to Connect

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

The Darkness Manifesto: How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life by Johan Eklöf

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night

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

What We Owe the Future: A Million-year View by William MacAskill

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Shaky Moral Framework

Reviews from the past year

A Bigger Picture: My Flight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Amplifying the Voices of African Activists

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

Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: Navdanya's Research on Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change by Vandana Shiva

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Diversity on the Farm

Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation by Sudeep Sen

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Poetry in the Time of Covid

Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness by Sicelo Mbatha

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Spirit Guide

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

Dawn of an Era of Well-being by Ervin László and Frederick Tsao

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Separation is an Illusion

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Missing Meals

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

Fledgling by Hannah Bourne-Taylor

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Purpose and Magic

Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Design for Life

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

Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Planning for the Planet

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Volumes 1-5) by Gavin van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (eds.)

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > A Planetary Tangle of Relations

Landed Podcast by Farmerara Radio

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Deep Digging on the Family Farm

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

Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Extinction and Rebirth

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis by Sally Weintrobe

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Colluding with Exceptionalism

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

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > We Need to Talk

Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Lost Frequencies

Subtle Agroecologies: Farming with the Hidden Half of Nature by Julia Wright and Nicholas Parrott (eds)

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > The Invisible Dimension of Farming

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > A Force of Grace

The Boys Who Said NO!: Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War by Judith Ehrlich

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Hell No, We Won't Go

The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Within the Climate Emergency

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > The Origins of Equality

The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism by Richard Seymour

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > An Ecological Awakening

The Entangled Activist: Learning to Recognise the Master's Tools by Anthea Lawson

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Out of Our Systems

The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Telling Time

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 Nation of Plants: A Radical Manifesto for Humans by Stefano Mancuso

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Planting Ideas

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > The Spice of Life

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 Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Fascism and Climate Crisis

The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present by Alison Richard

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > A Love Song to Madagascar

We Have a Dream by Mya-Rose Craig

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > An Anthem for Climate Justice

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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