Book Reviews

In her new book, Nomad Century, award-winning science writer Gaia Vince explores how we can prepare for mass migration in…

Suad Aldarra, a Syrian/Irish data scientist and author of I Don’t Want to Talk About Home, selects from her library…

Riley Black tells an engaging and dramatic story of the fateful last days of the dinosaurs Unforeseen and without warning,…

Stories of life, land and a farming revolution As I walk the lanes around my home in Devon, I look…

Exiles is a thoughtful and perceptive exploration of the banished throughout history ‘Exile is more than a geographical concept,’ wrote…

A new upbeat biography of Jerusalem’s Old City and its four quarters One of Jerusalem’s oddities is its inauspicious location:…

One woman’s journey to find the forgotten species of climate change Britain Zoologist and science writer Sophie Pavelle wants to…

Suad Aldarra’s memoir, I Don’t Want To Talk About Home, follows the author’s long search for belonging on leaving her…

A poetic story of one woman’s love of the sea and her work protecting marine life The current popularity of…

A brutal debunking of the myths about Ferdinand Magellan – the 16th-century seafarer knew little about navigation and was a…

Kit Gillet reviews a fascinating book which aims to bring forensic botany out of the lab and into the sunlight…

Elizabeth Wainwright reviews Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species by Derek Gow, published…