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Books of the Month

February 2022

January 2022

December 2021


Like a Tree, Walking
Vahni Capildeo
Carcanet

November 2021


Pothos
Rosa Campbell
Broken Sleep Books

October 2021


Cartographies of the Imagination
Kirsty Badenoch, Sayan Skandarajah (editors)

September 2021


Epic
Camilla Nelson
Guillemot Press

August 2021


Echtrai Journal
B G Nichols / Bran Graeme Nairne (editors)
AnMór

July 2021


Florilegia
Annabel Dover
Moist Books

June 2021


Border and Rule
Harsha Walia
Haymarket Books

May 2021


I Belong Here
Anita Sethi
Bloomsbury

April 2021

Strange Beasts of China
Yan Ge
Tilted Axis Press

March 2021


Green Unpleasant Land
Corinne Fowler
Peepal Tree Press

February 2021

Mira Mattar
Yes, I am a Destroyer
Mira Mattar
Ma bibliothèque

December 2020

Inscriptions of Nature
Pratik Chakrabarti
Johns Hopkins University Press

November 2020

Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang
FSG Originals

October 2020

Lote
Shola von Reinhold
Jacaranda Books

September 2020

One Long Black Sentence
Renee Gladman and Fred Moten
Image Text Ithaca

August 2020

A Map of Absence
Atef Alshaer (editor)
Saqi Books

July 2020


A Map is Only One Story
Nicole Chung, Mensah Demary (editors)
Catapult

June 2020

Maria Kapajeva
Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear
Maria Kapajeva
Milda Books

May 2020

City of Beasts
Thomas Almeroth-Williams
Manchester University Press

April 2020

Richard Smyth

Aspects of Landscape
John Hitchens
Sansom and Company

March 2020

Richard Smyth

An Indifference of Birds
Richard Smyth
Uniformbooks

February 2020

Alexandra Paperno

Self-Love Among the Ruins
Alexandra Paperno
Ad Marginem Press

January 2020


Stone Talks
Alyson Hallett
Triarchy Press

December 2019

Stephen Prince
Straying From The Pathways
Stephen Prince
A Year In The Country

November 2019

Tessa Berring
Bitten Hair
Tessa Berring
Blue Diode

October 2019


How I Became One of the Invisible
David Rattray
MIT Press

September 2019

Elvia Wilk Oval
Oval
Elvia Wilk
Soft Skull Press

August 2019

Gareth E Rees
Car Park Life
Gareth E Rees
Influx Press

July 2019

Laura Watts
Energy at the End of the World
Laura Watts
MIT Press

June 2019

Gaelic Garden of the Dead
The Gaelic Garden of the Dead
MacGillivray
Bloodaxe Books

May 2019

Brilliant Absence
Brilliant Absence
Ross Hair
Uniformbooks

April 2019

Animalia

Animalia
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Fitzcarraldo Editions

March 2019

gathering
Alec Finlay
Hauser & Wirth

February 2019

Nancy Gaffiel

Meridian
Nancy Gaffield
Longbarrow Press

January 2019

On Bodies

Animal Biography
André Krebber, Mieke Roscher (editors)
Palgrave Macmillan

December 2018

On Bodies

On Bodies
Various authors
3 of Cups Press

November 2018

Animal Labor

Animal Labor & Colonial Warfare
James L. Hevia
University of Chicago Press

October 2018

The Orphaned Spaces

The Orphaned Spaces
MW Bewick, Ella Johnston
Dunlin Press

September 2018

Bruno Latour

Down to Earth
Bruno Latour
Polity

August 2018

Eco-Visionaries

Eco-Visionaries
Pedro Gadanho (editor)
Hatje Cantz

July 2018

The Arsenic Eaters

The Arsenic Eaters
Simon Brugner
Eriskay Connections

June 2018

Jeremy Mynott

Birds in the Ancient World
Jeremy Mynott
OUP

May 2018

Malachy Tallack book

The Valley at the Centre of the World
Malachy Tallack
Canongate

April 2018

Elephant Atlas

Elephant Atlas: A Compendium
Sophy Rickett (editor)
Cuming Museum

March 2018

Tidalectics

Tidalectics
Stefanie Hessler (editor)
MIT Press

February 2018

Sue Hubbard Rainsongs books

Rainsongs
Sue Hubbard
Duckworth Overlook

January 2018

Cosmic Shift

Cosmic Shift
Alex Anikina, Elena Zaytseva (editors)
Zed Books

December 2017

Stephen Gill

Night Procession
Stephen Gill
Nobody

November 2017

Camila Sposati

Stone Theatre
Camila Sposati
Revolver

October 2017

Timothy Morton
Humankind
Timothy Morton
Verso

September 2017

Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture
Eyal Weizman
Zone Books

August 2017

Claudia Losi

How do I imagine being there?
Claudia Losi
Humboldt Books

July 2017

Sean Braune

The Gathering Cloud
JR Carpenter
Uniformbooks

June 2017

Sean Braune

Language Parasites: Of Phorontology
Sean Braune
Punctum Books

May 2017

Camilla Nelson

Apples and Other Languages
Camilla Nelson
Knives Forks and Spoons

April 2017

Questions of Travel
Lavinia Greenlaw
Notting Hill Editions

March 2017

Distant Voices
Distant Voices
John S Haller, Jr
The Swedenborg Society

February 2017

Laura Van Severen, LAND
LAND
Laura Van Severen
The Eriskay Connection

January 2017

Textures of the Anthropocene

Textures of the Anthropocene
Katrin Klingan et al (editors)
MIT Press

December 2016

Tessa Farmer, Strange Attractor

In Fairyland: The World of Tessa Farmer
Catriona McAra (editor)
Strange Attractor

November 2016

Ada Kaleh

Ada Kaleh
Freddie Mason with illustrations by Alice-Andrea Ewing
Little Island Press

October 2016

Active Withdrawals, Black Dog

Active Withdrawals
Biljana Ciric & Nikita Yingqian Cai (editors)
Black Dog Publishing

September 2016

Matías Celedón, The Subsidiary

The Subsidiary
Matías Celedón
Melville House

August 2016

The Keartons

The Keartons
John Bevis
Uniformbooks

July 2016

Fay Musselwhite, Contraflow

Contraflow
Fay Musselwhite
Longbarrow Press

June 2016

Dunlin Press, The Migrant Waders

The Migrant Waders
Various authors
Dunlin Press

May 2016

Matthew Beaumont Nightwalking

Nightwalking
Matthew Beaumont
Verso

April 2016

Republic of Dogs

Republic of Dogs / Republic of Birds
Stephen Watts
Test Centre

March 2016

Ken Worpole, New Jerusalem

New Jerusalem
Ken Worpole
The Swedenborg Society

February 2016

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Rural Modernity, Everyday Life and Visual Culture
Rosemary Shirley
Ashgate

January 2016

A Geology of Media

A Geology of Media
Jussi Parikka
University of Minnesota Press

December 2015

Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene

Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
Joanna Zylinska
Open Humanities Press

November 2015

Another Green World Linn Botanic Gardens Encounters with a Scottish Arcadia

Another Green World
Alison Turnbull with Philip Hoare
Art / Books

October 2015

David Matless, The Regional Book

The Regional Book
David Matless
Uniformbooks

September 2015

Susannah Worth, Digesting Recipes

Digesting Recipes
Susannah Worth
Zero Books

August 2015

The Art of Walking

The Art of Walking
Sonia Overall
Shearsman Books

July 2015

Falling

Falling
Kristen Kreider & James O’Leary
Copy Press

June 2015

Richard Skelton Landings

Landings
Richard Skelton
Corbel Stone Press

May 2015

Mel Evans, Artwash

Artwash
Mel Evans
Pluto Press

April 2015

The Splendour of the Tree

The Splendour of the Tree
Noel Kingsbury, Andrea Jones
Frances Lincoln

March 2015

Honor Gavin, Midland - Penned in the Margins

Critical Cities: Volume 4
Deepa Naik & Trenton Oldfield (editors)
Myrdle Court Press

February 2015

Harry Saddler Not Birdwatching

Not Birdwatching
Harry Saddler
Blurb

January 2015

Honor Gavin, Midland - Penned in the Margins

Midland
Honor Gavin
Penned in the Margins

December 2014

Matt Sewell - Owls

Owls
Matt Sewell
Ebury Press

November 2014

Edmund Hardy - complex crosses book

Complex Crosses
Edmund Hardy
Contraband Books

October 2014

Roy Fisher - An Easily Bewildered Child

An Easily Bewildered Child
Roy Fisher
Shearsman Books

September 2014

ascent-of-kinder

The Ascent of Kinder Scout
Peter Riley
Longbarrow Press

August 2014

Diagrams for Seriality

Diagrams for Seriality
Neil Chapman
Copy Press

July 2014

Living Locally

Living Locally
Erica Van Horn
Uniformbooks

June 2014

Brae Editions

[Cover]
Amy Todman
Brae Editions

May 2014

Influx Press

Build and Destroy: Birmingham
Steve Camden, Chris Prendergast
Influx Press

April 2014

In Numbers
Various
British Racing Green

March 2014

Edward Chell

Soft Estate
Edward Chell
The Bluecoat

February 2014

Julien Nedelec

Leafing Through
Julien Néddélec
Zédélé Editions

January 2014

Mateship with Birds

Mateship with Birds
AH Chisholm
Scribe

December 2013

SJ Fowler, Enemies

Enemies
SJ Fowler
Penned in the Margins

November 2013

Anarchy in the Organism

Anarchy in the Organism
Simeon Nelson (ed.)
Black Dog Publishing

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