Book Reviews
Over the years, the Dark Mountain website has been home to reviews of books of interest to our readers.
Whether introducing neglected classics that deserve a home on an uncivilised bookshelf, or taking a critical look at new publications whose themes overlap with our work, we hope you find the reviews here a stimulus to reading, reflection and discussion.
Regeneration from the Ruins
Nick Hunt
31st August, 2022
Thunderstone: A true story of losing one home and finding another, by Nancy Campbell (Elliott...
A Still Becharmed Panic
Fred Warren
13th July, 2022
Fred Warren reviews Strandings, by Peter Riley – finding parallels with their loss and our own sense of spiralling climate anxiety.
Genius Loci
Nick Hunt
9th December, 2020
Nick Hunt climbs over the mindwall to review 'The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us' by Nick Hayes for the second post in our Of Earth and Empire series
Riders on the Wolf
Dougald Hine
30th September, 2020
Our perception of climate change is often blinkered by scientific data and statistics. Dougald Hine reviews two books that delve into the kind of lexicon and attention demanded in an age of catastrophe.
Inside the Doughnut
Chris Smaje
23rd October, 2017
In the first part of the book Raworth dissects orthodox economic theory, showing how it...