December 2023 Issue John Gribbin Flames Beneath His Feet Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes By Clive Oppenheimer LR
October 2022 Issue Will Wiles All That Glitters Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones By Hettie Judah LR
September 2021 Issue Nigel Andrew What Will Survive of Us? A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters By Henry Gee
April 2020 Issue Vybarr Cregan-Reid Generation Plastic Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils By David Farrier LR
February 2019 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto False Starts Origins: How the Earth Made Us By Lewis Dartnell LR
February 2019 Issue Will Wiles Strolling in the Deep Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet By Will Hunt LR
February 2016 Issue Michael Burleigh Unobtainium The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age By David S Abraham
October 2009 Issue Brenda Maddox She Sold Seashells The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World By Shelley Emling Remarkable Creatures By Tracy Chevalier LR
September 2008 Issue Fergus Fleming Footloose Racing with Death: Douglas Mawson – Antarctic Explorer By Beau Riffenburgh LR
October 2008 Issue Brenda Maddox Reading the Rocks Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform By Martin J S Rudwick LR
May 2014 Issue Alexandra Harris It Was a Dark and Stormy Night… Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World By Gillen D’Arcy Wood LR
May 2014 Issue Jan Morris Seeking His Quarry Underlands: A Journey through Britain’s Lost Landscape By Ted Nield LR
February 2014 Issue Michael Burleigh My Precious Gold: The Race for the World’s Most Seductive Metal By Matthew Hart LR
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