For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Biology & the Natural World

September 2016 Issue

Wendy Moore

Blessed Are the Bacteria

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

By Ed Yong

February 2003 Issue

Tim Heald

Wild Life

Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster

By David Attenborough

April 1980 Issue

Lesley Chamberlain

Is What I See A Flower?

Botany: A Study of Pure Curiosity

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Kate Ottevanger (trans.)

August 2016 Issue

Miranda Seymour

Crowning Glories

The Long, Long Life of Trees

By Fiona Stafford

July 2016 Issue

Stoddard Martin

The Shining

Six Facets of Light

By Ann Wroe

October 1991 Issue

Frank McLynn

Not Enough Selection

Darwin

By Adrian Desmond & James Moore

June 2016 Issue

Tim Richardson

Altering the Landscape

Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist

By Jens Hoffmann & Claudia J Nahson

June 2016 Issue

Nigel Andrew

Lolita’s Lepidopterist

Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art

By Stephen H Blackwell & Kurt Johnson (edd)

June 2016 Issue

Sumit Paul-Choudhury

Recipe of Life

The Gene: An Intimate History

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nigel Andrew

Putting Down Roots

The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

By Richard Fortey

Patrick Scrivenor

Mixing with Vixens

Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain

By Lucy Jones

April 2016 Issue

Sarah Darwin

Four Legs Good

Being a Beast

By Charles Foster

April 2016 Issue

Nigel Andrew

Making a Scene

Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places

By Anna Pavord

Rain: Four Walks in English Weather

By Melissa Harrison

March 2016 Issue

Tom Mustill

Big Game Photographer

The Shark and the Albatross: Travels with a Camera to the Ends of the Earth

By John Aitchison

February 2016 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

Lions & Tigers & Bears

The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London

By Christopher Plumb

Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England 1100–1837

By Caroline Grigson

July 1993 Issue

David Attenborough

Are They Really Bears?

The Last Panda

By George Schaller

August 1986 Issue

David Profumo

Not Very Nice

The Dictionary of Disgusting Facts

By Alan Williams and Maggie Noach

December 2015 Issue

Tom Fort

The Axeman Cometh

Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way

By Lars Mytting

December 2015 Issue

Charles Elliot

Ways of Seeding

The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

By Richard Mabey

December 2015 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

Long Live the King?

Lions in the Balance: Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns

By Craig Packer