People tend to read what they see and let’s be honest, our future as a species is not looking particularly good – but maybe part of that is because we think there’s no hope. Social media and the news hardly show the positive actions that are happening to curb...
As humans, we often write poetry to help process and make sense of the world around us. Back in the 1800s during the Romantic era, we wrote a lot about how sublime the world was. William Wordworth’s The Prelude is basically a love letter to Earth and nature. However,...
So you want to read about the environment, but you’re bored of reading books about climate change. Here are BLOT’s top 5 environmental thrillers (that aren’t cli-fi) to get you started. The difference between environmental thrillers and cli-fi While...
Have you ever wondered what happened to the books you don’t pick from the shelves of Waterstones? Well, I did some digging and found out and let’s just say…. it’s not very pretty. Picture this. You’re in your local bookstore, it’s almost midday, so there are a...
When book publishing is the third-largest industry to emit greenhouse gases worldwide, how guilty does that make us as book-lovers? Paper and ink are not the most environmentally friendly products to be mass produced on a large scale. Publishers have had to rethink...
