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.
Latest Reviews
Reviews from the past year
A Dance with Hermes by Lindsay Clarke
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > The Trickster
A rich selection of books on topics as diverse as futurology, Nature writing, politics and poetry by Various Authors
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Books of the Year
Among the Summer Snows by Christopher Nicholson
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > A Touch of Winter in August
Awake : A Dream From Standing Rock by Josh Fox, James Spione, Myron Dewey
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Joining Hands at Standing Rock
Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling by Carlton Reid
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Pedalling on a Bumpy Road
Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott
Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > A World Closer to Nature
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau
Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > Once Upon a Thyme
Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming by Benjamin R Barber
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Within City Limits
Down To Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour
Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > New Politics For The Coming Crisis
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Shining New Light on Our Future
Eat Up! Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh
Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > An Appetite for Connection
Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science 1500-1630 by Florike Egmond
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Up Close and Beautiful
Fertile Edges: Regenerating Land, Culture and Hope by Maddy Harland
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > A Nourishing Read
Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity by Michel P Pimbert
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > There is Another Way
From Global to Local: the Making of Things and the End of Globalization by Finbarr Livesey
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > A 3D Future is Missing a Dimension
Generation Zapped by Sabine El Gemayel
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > A CALL FOR SCREEN PROTECTION
Humankind: Solidarity with Non-human people by Timothy Morton
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > Planetary Communism
Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature by Jairam Ramesh
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > A Premier and A Conservationist
Is Racism an Environmental Threat? by Ghassan Hage
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > Nature, Race and an Idea of Home
Islander : A Journey Around Our Archipelago by Patrick Barkham
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > Worlds Unto Themselves
Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology by Andreas Webber
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > The Biological Power of Love
More than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age by Antonia Macaro
Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > One Good Life, Two Systems
Morning: How to Make Time - A Manifesto by Allan Jenkins
Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > A Morning Wake-Up Call
Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-growth Forests by Joan Maloof
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Branching Out
No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Playing The Trump Card
Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain by Peter Fiennes
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Branching Out
Oaks and the Apennines: Truffle Cultivation, Heritage Foods, Sustainability and Well-Being in Italy by Tamara J Griffiths
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Digging for Black Gold
Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? by Mark Cocker
Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Our Vanishingly Pleasant Land
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > The Alternative? We Need New Stories
Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington
Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > The Silence of Owls
Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > Hope For A Watershed Moment
Risingtidefallenstar by Philip Hoare
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Drawn by the Wind and the Waves
Science and Spiritual Practices by Rupert Sheldrake
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > The Science Behind Spirituality?
Senses of Mystery: Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life: Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life by David E Cooper
Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Beyond Words
Taming the Sun:: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet by Varum Shivaram
Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Shining New Light on Our Future
The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without Water by Scilla Elworthy
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > A Costed Plan for Peace
The Growth Delusion by David Pilling
Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Growing Pains
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J Drew Lanham
Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > Black and White and Green
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane | Jacki Morris
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Casting Nature's Spells
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent
Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Beating the System, Metaphorically
The Shock Doctrine of the Left by Graham Jones
Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > New Politics For The Coming Crisis
The Songs of the Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by Haskell David George
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Branching Out
Voices For Peace: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance by TJ Coles
Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > War and Order
What Are You Doing With Your Life? by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > Why Don't We Change?
Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence by Nick Hunt
Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Under Pressure
Youth Unemployment by Tish Murtha
Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > A Visual Tale of Society, Politics and Prophecy
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