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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