Book Reviews
Porritt, Jonathan. Love, Anger and Betrayal . Anthony Eyre, 2025
Ellen Johl (ed) Thirst: In Search of Freshwater. Wellcombe Collection 20025
Adam Nicolson. Bird School: A beginner in the Wood. William Collins, 2025.
Robert Macfarlane. Is a River Alive? Hamish Hamilton, 2025.
Wendy Pratt. The Ghost Lake. The Borough Press, 2024
Kathleen Jamie. Cairn. Sort of Books, 2024
James Bradley. Deep Water: The world in the Ocean. Scribe, 2024.
Laura Cumming. Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life and death. Vintage 2024
Kate Rigby. Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction. Orbis Books, 2023
Amitav Ghosh. Smoke and Ashes: Opium's hidden histories. John Murray, 2024.
Freya Mathews. The Tao of Civilization: A letter to China. Anthem Press, 2023
Hugh Brody, Landscapes of Silence: From childhood to the Arctic. Faber, 2022
Vick, Chris. The Last Whale. Zephyr, 2023
Hinton, David. Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our place in the Sixth Extinction. Shambhala, 2022
Lopez, Barry. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays. (Random House, 2022)
Eklöf, Johan, The Darkness Manifesto: How light pollution threatens the ancient rhythms of life. Trans Elizabeth DeNoma. The Bodley Head, 2022.
Griffiths, Jay. Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys through turning times. Little Toller, 2022
Amitav Ghosh, Jungle Nama: A story of the Sundarban, illuminated by Salman Toor (John Murray, 2021).
Amitav Ghosh, The Living Mountain: A fable for our times, illustrated by Devangana Dash (Fourth estate, 2022).
Gavin van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (eds.) Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Volumes 1–5). Center for Humans and Nature, 2021
David Graeber and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything. Allen Lane
Jane Riddiford. Learning to Lead Together. Routledge 2021
Martin Shaw. Smoke Hole. Chelsea Green, 2021
Elizabeth Kolbert. Under a White Sky: The nature of the future. Bodley Head, 2021
Horatio Clare. Heavy Light: A Journey through Madness, Mania and Healing. Chatto and Windus, 2021
Kerri ní Dochartaigh. Thin Places. Canongate 2021
Ann Lingard. The Fresh and the Salt. Birlinn, 2020
James Crowden. The Frozen River: Seeking silence in the Himalaya. William Collins, 2020
Ann Lingard. The Fresh and the Salt: The story of the Solway, Birlinn, 2020
Kaza, Stephanie, ed. A Wild Love for the World. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2020.
Tamás, Rebecca. (2020). Strangers; Essays on the Human and Nonhuman. London: Makina Books.
McIntosh, Alastair. (2020). Riders on the Storm: The climate crisis and the survival of being. Edinburgh: Berlinn.
Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. London: Random House, 2020.
Salami, Minna. Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. New York and London: Harper Collins and Zed Books, 2020.
Farrier, David. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils. London: 4th Estate, 2020.
Tucker, Mary Evelyn, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal. Thomas Berry: A Biography. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Paradigm Explorer (Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network) No 132:49-50
Stanisław Łubieńsk. The Birds They Sang: Birds and People in Life and Art. Translated from Polish by Bill Johnston, The Westbourne Press, April 2020.
Robin Wall Kimmerer. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Penguin 2020
Kit Jewitt,. Red Sixty Seven British Trust for Ornithology, 2020.
Philip Goff. Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness . Shiny New Books (2019). A short version of this review was published in Paradigm Explorer (Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network) No 132:55-56
Philip Marsden. The Summer Isles, Shiny New Books (2019)
Kathleen Jamie. Surfacing. Shiny New Books (2019).
Marcia Bjornerud. Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World Shiny New Books (2019).
David Gage. The Frayed Atlantic Edge. Shiny New Books (2019).
This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook. Shiny New Books (2019).
Barry Lopez. Horizon Review in Shiny New Books 2019
David Wallace-Wells The Uninhabitable Earth . Shiny New Books 2019
Robert Bringhurst and Jan Zwicky. Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis by Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 2018.
Horatio Clare. The Light in the Dark. Shiny New Books 2019
Michael Pollan. How to Change your Mind. Shiny New Books 2018
Drew Lanham. The Home Place. Resurgence & Ecologist, No 310 Sept/Oct (2018):58-59
Richard Powers. The Overstory. Review with Shiny New Books 2018
Mark Cocker. Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It's Too Late? Shiny New Books (2018).
Andreas Weber. Matter and Desire Resurgence & Ecologist, No 298 May/June (2018):56-57
Miriam Darlington. Owl Sense Shiny New Books February 2018
Adam Nicolson. The Seabird's Cry Review for Shiny New Books 2017
David Cooper. Beyond Words: Review, Sense of Mystery: Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life, Resurgence & Ecologist No. 306 January/February (2017): 64-64.
Macfarlane, Robert and Jackie Morris. The Lost Words London: Hamish Hamilton, 2017. Shiny New Books
Nick Hunt. Where the Wild Winds Are.Resurgence & Ecologist, No. 305 November/December (2017): 63.
Hamilton, Clive. Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the Anthropocene. . Cambridge: Polity Press.(2017). A longer version of this review can be found here
David Hinton. Existence, Resurgence & Ecologist, No. 304 September/October (2017): 62-63.
Glenn Edney. The Ocean is Alive, EarthLines, No 16, p.73
June Boyce-Tillman. Experiencing Music – Restoring the Spiritual; Music as Well-Being." Resurgence & Ecologist No. 292, (2016): 58-59.
Gaia Vince. Adventures in the Anthropocene. EarthLines, No. 14 (2016): 73-74.
Paul Evans. Field Notes from the Edge: Journeys through Britain's secret wilderness. Rider, 2015 . Resurgence, 293, 60-61.
Chad Wrigglesworth (ed.). Distant Neighbours: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder. Counterpoint, 2014. Resurgence & Ecologist No 290, (2015): 61.
Out of the Wood... Peter Reason visits the studios of sister artists Sarah and Anna Gillepsie. Resurgence No. 274, September/October 2012, pp37-37
Mary-Jayne Rust & Nick Totton. Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to the Ecological Crisis. Karnac books 2012
Christie, D. E. The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a contemplative ecology. New York: Oxford University Press (2013).. Resurgence & Ecologist, No. 281, (2013): 60-61. A longer unpublished version of this review is here
Brian Swimme & Mary Evelyn Tucker. The Journey of the Universe: An Epic Story of Cosmic, Earth, and Human Transformation. Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780300171907. The DVD is available from www.journeyoftheuniverse.org
Tim Flannery. A Commonwealth of Virtue. Here on Earth: A New Beginning by Allen Lane, 2011, ISBN: 9781846143960.
Thomas Berry. The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth Orbis Books, 2009. ISBN: 9781570758515 With Thomas Berry. The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century Columbia University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780231149525
Thomas Berry. Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community. Sierra Club Books, USA. Video of talk at Earth is Community: A Celebration of the Life and Path of Thomas Berry
Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman (eds). The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies. SUNY Press, 2008, ISBN 9780791476017.
Sarah Gillespie. The Slapton Ley Project White Lane Press, UK, 2007.
Robert Macfarlane. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. Hamish Hamilton, 2012by Resurgence & Ecologist No. 282, (2014): 67.
William Tydeman. Barry Lopez: Walking the Path of Imagination, University Oklahoma Press, 2013. EarthLines, no. 8 (2014): 75.
Nick Hunt. Walking the Woods and Water. Nicolas Brealey, 2014. Resurgence and Ecologist No 287, (2014): 64-65.
Kathleen Jamie. Sightlines. Sort of Books, 2012. Resurgence & Ecologist No 279, (2013): 62.
Geoff Mead. Coming Home to Story: Storytelling Beyond Happily Ever After. Vala Publishing Co-operative. Resurgence & Ecologist No. 272, (2012).
Robert Bly. Iron John, Element Books, 1990. Women in Management Review, 7(7), 35-37