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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For the Wild: An Anthology of the Anthropocene by Ayana Young

Issue 349 • March/April 2025 > Reviews > A balm for these times

In Search of the Perfect Peach: Why Flavour Holds the Answer to Fixing Our Food System by Franco Fubini

Issue 349 • March/April 2025 > Reviews > An appetite for change

Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman by Callum Robinson

Issue 349 • March/April 2025 > Reviews > Kindling of success

Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Wim Carton | Andreas Malm

Issue 349 • March/April 2025 > Reviews > To surrender, or to revolt?

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years by Sunil Amrith

Issue 349 • March/April 2025 > Reviews > Can we truly learn from the past?

The Place of Tides by James Rebanks

Issue 349 • March/April 2025 > Reviews > Learnings from a remote Norwegian island

The Re-Use Atlas: A Designer’s Guide Towards a Circular Economy by Duncan Baker-Brown

Issue 349 • March/April 2025 > Reviews > Building for the future

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?

Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas

Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Can we reclaim Englishness?

Black Earth Podcast by Marion Atieno Osieyo

Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Rooted in Science and the Black Experience

Cairn by Kathleen Jamie

Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Marking the way

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

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms by Amy Stewart

Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > A web of woodland wonder

Constellation of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice by Cindy Barukh Milstein

Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > Existing as resisting

Cull of the Wild: Killing in the name of conservation by Hugh Warwick

Issue 346 • September/October 2024 > Reviews > Ecology with compassion for all

Drinkable Rivers: How the River Became My Teacher by Becca Blease

Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Streams of Connectivity

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

Land Smart: How to Give People and Nature the Space to Thrive by Tom Heap

Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > The great food puzzle

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’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

Not One Left: Why the World Needs More Children by Paul Morland

Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > (Anti-)Natalism?

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

Once Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate by Kate Bradbury

Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > The promise of wilder gardens

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

Political Heat by Amy Mount

Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > Making sense of climate politics

Possible: Ways to Net Zero by Chris Goodall

Issue 345 • July/August 2024 > Reviews > Rebalancing to reach neutral

Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World by Danny Sriskandarajah

Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > Tell me you can hear it, stronger by the hour

Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures by Evie Muir

Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > From exhaustion to hope

Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation by Danny Dorling

Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > (Anti-)Natalism?

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 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 Bridleway: How Horses Shaped the British Landscape by Tiffany Francis-Baker

Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > Be more horse

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 Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? by Guy Shrubsole

Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > Right to roam. Right to own?

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 Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Richard Fortey

Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > The strange, enchanting life of tree collectors

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

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

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

We Need to Talk about Climate: How Citizen's Assemblies Can Help Us Solve the Climate Crisis by Graham Smith

Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > Citizens assembly for change

We will not be saved: A memoir of Hope and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest by Nomont Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson

Issue 347 • November/December 2024 > Reviews > The frontline of the Amazon

Whose Planet? The Climate Justice Podcast by Nani Jansen Reventlow

Issue 348 • January/February 2025 > Reviews > Elevating marginalised voices

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