- Excellent Advice for Living, Kevin Kelly : Kelly’s timeless advice covers an astonishing range, from right living to setting ambitious goals, optimising generosity, and cultivating compassion.
- Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie : In this remarkable new book, Adichie replies by letter to a friend’s request for help on how to bring up her newborn baby girl as a feminist.
- Losing Earth: A Recent History, Nathaniel Rich : An analysis of missed opportunities to combat climate change in the 1980s, with a poignant perspective on the environmental emergency.
- Into the Forest, Jean Hegland: An intense and poetic novel about survival, nature and resilience in the face of the collapse of civilization.
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau : A timeless classic that invites you to live simply and reconnect with nature to discover what is essential.
- How bad are bananas? The carbon footprint of everything, Mike Berners-Lee: This book gives us the figures to manage and reduce our own carbon footprint, as well as to lobby our companies, businesses and government.
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, Yvon Chouinard: This is the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business life-a book that will deeply affect entrepreneurs and outdoor enthusiasts alike
- Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm, Isabella Tree: Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife.
- Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, Hannah Richie: Packed with the latest research, practical guidance and enlightening graphics, this book will make you rethink almost everything you’ve been told about the environment.
- How To Argue With A Racist, Adam Rutherford: How To Argue With A Racist dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can’t tell us about human difference. It is a vital manifesto for a twenty-first century understanding of human evolution and variation, and a timely weapon against the misuse of science to justify racism.
- Race For Tomorrow, Simon Mundy: In this extraordinary journey through 26 countries, Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate crisis, showing how the struggle to respond is already reshaping the modern world – shattering communities, shaking up global business, and propelling a groundbreaking wave of cutting-edge innovation.
- How to Lead with Purpose: Lessons in Life and Work from the Gloves-off Mentor Liam Black: Liam Black has been supporting social entrepreneurs and purpose-driven leaders for decades, and he understands what it takes to do work that goes beyond the bottom line – and what it can take out of you, too.
One for the comic book lovers…
World Without End, Jean-Marc Jancovici, Christophe Blain: In this eye-opening, hopeful and hugely entertaining bestseller, a climate expert takes a leading graphic novelist on a journey to understand the profound changes that our planet is undergoing.
And one for the kids…
Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, Jeanette Winter: This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman’s passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.
