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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Animal Welfare in World Religion: Teaching and Practice by Joyce D’Silva

Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > A Fundamental Failure?

Black Earth Podcast by Marion Atieno Osieyo

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

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

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

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

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

The Next Supercontinent: TSolving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea by Ross Mitchell

Issue 343 • March/April 2024 > Reviews > Shape of the Future

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

Reviews from the past year

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

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > Debunking the myths

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez

Issue 341 • November/December 2023 > Reviews > A Lifetime of Observations

Environmental Thought: A Short History by Robin Attfield

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

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

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

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Issue 338 • May/June 2023 > Reviews > Connecting plant threads

God is an Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature by

Issue 340 • September/October 2023 > Reviews > Putting Nature Back in Charge

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

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

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

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

Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal

Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > Centering Care

Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell (ed.)

Issue 342 • January/February 2024 > Reviews > Since the Great Frost

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan

Issue 339 • July/August 2023 > Reviews > Unravelling the history of people and planet

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 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

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

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

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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