For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Robert Mayhew

From the November 2020 Issue

Three Cheers for Reason

The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790

By Ritchie Robertson

From the February 2020 Issue

Play It Again, Vlad

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

By Sophy Roberts

From the February 2019 Issue

Eight Billion & Bust

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

By Paul Morland

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

By Darrell Bricker & John Ibbitson

From the December 2018 Issue

When Terminator Pigs Roamed

Europe: A Natural History

By Tim Flannery

From the August 2018 Issue

Vessel of Knowledge

Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude That Changed the World

By Peter Moore

From the April 2018 Issue

Snow Problem

To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

By Edward J Larson

From the December 2017 Issue

Energising Evolution

Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

By Chris D Thomas

Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

By Britt Wray

From the September 2016 Issue

Seven Billion and Counting

How Population Change Will Transform Our World

By Sarah Harper

From the May 2016 Issue

Privateer, Polymath, Poet

A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby

By Joe Moshenska

From the October 2015 Issue

Engineering the Skies

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

By Oliver Morton

From the November 2014 Issue

Green Shoots

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

By Naomi Klein