For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Oceans and Seas

June 2016 Issue

Tom Fort

What Goes Out Must Come In

The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall’s Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast

By Gavin Knight

Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

December 2015 Issue

Jan Morris

Of Wind & Water

The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea

By Tom Blass

August 2015 Issue

Tom Fort

Cockles of the Heart

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

By Helen Scales

November 2003 Issue

Geordie Williamson

All at Sea

Trawler: A Journey Through The North Atlantic

By Redmond O'Hanlon

July 2010 Issue

Ted Nield

The Music of Ophiolites

Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World

By Dorrik Stow

July 2010 Issue

David Profumo

The Peace of Cod

Four Fish: A Journey from the Ocean to Your Plate

By Paul Greenberg

April 2009 Issue

James Holland

Men-of-War

The Bitter Sea: The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean, 1935–1949

By Simon Ball

December 2008 Issue

Tom Fort Makes Four Natural Selections

August 2008 Issue

David Profumo

Let Them Eat Hake

The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Our Disappearing Fisheries

By Mark Kurlansky

October 2008 Issue

Nigel Jones

Life on the Ocean Wave

Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy

By Roy & Lesley Adkins

Norman Hammond

Emerging Eurozones

Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000

By Barry Cunliffe

June 2012 Issue

Charles Clover

Up To Our Necks

Ocean of Life: How Our Seas Are Changing

By Callum Roberts

The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline

By Orrin H Pilkey, William J Neal, Joseph T Kelley and J Andrew G Cooper

July 2012 Issue

John Keay

Shine & Squalor

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

By Katherine Boo

India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation

By Oliver Balch

Following Fish: Travels around the Indian Coast

By Samanth Subramanian

March 2005 Issue

Nick Smith

The Arctic Atlantis

The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule

By Joanna Kavenna

March 2005 Issue

Andrew Taylor

Uncharted Waters

The Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea

By Jordan Goodman

The English Dane

By Sarah Bakewell

March 2005 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

Between The Rock and a Hard Place

Theatre of Fish: Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador

By John Gimlette

April 2005 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Look What the Tide Dragged In

The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships

By Bella Bathurst

September 2012 Issue

Vanessa Collingridge

Breaking the Waves

Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans

By Brian Fagan

September 2013 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Matters of Import

Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything

By Rose George

December 2013 Issue

Sara Wheeler

In the Duke We Trust

Man Belong Mrs Queen: Adventures with the Philip Worshippers

By Matthew Baylis