~ THE FIRST BOOK CLUB OF ITS KIND ~
Lessons & discussion to support our actions, thinking and possibilities for the times we now navigate.
These sessions are entwined with key teachings in Creative Ecologies, that will develop & inform how you engage with our entwined human & more than human worlds. From international educator & lecturer Elizabeth Gleave. Delve in to incredible pages with a gathering of humans deeply concerned with all matters regarding Land, Sea & Sky.
These book discussions are an opportunity to learn, connect and move forward together, through a collaborative & inspiring exchange of ideas.
For all stages of ecological & creative explorations.
‘We are required to attend to others in their specificity, to ask and re-ask with them: what matters here and what else might be possible.’
This is what these sessions invite us to do, together.
Join in the discussion and connect with those inspired by Land, Sea & Sky
Upcoming Guests Include
-
![]()
Cal Flyn
ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT
"Certainly a book of the year for me." SEBASTIAN FAULKSA haunting journey through the world’s abandoned places, Flyn’s wide-ranging and reflective meditation on how nature continues in humanity’s absence is an eerie yet ultimately optimistic account of ecological diversity.
-
![]()
Sam Lee
THE NIGHTINGALE
"This lovely book is almost as thrilling as the bird's immortal song - balm for a troubled soul and a glimpse of paradise." JOANNA LUMLEY
Here, passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. This book reveals in beautiful detail the bird's song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues that threaten its livelihood. -
![]()
Sarah Wilson
THIS ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE
“Sarah Wilson is a force of nature – quite literally. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemized it into action, advocacy, adventure, poetry, and true love.” — ELIZABETH GILBERTMany of us are living with the sense that things are not right with the world and are in a state of spiritual PTSD. Sarah Wilson argues that this sense of despair and disconnection is ironically what unites us—that deep down, we are all feeling that same itch for a new way of living. Drawing on science, literature, philosophy and the wisdom of some of the world’s leading experts, and her personal journey, Wilson offers a hopeful path forward to the life we love.
-
![]()
Rob Hopkins
FROM WHAT IS TO WHAT IF
“Big ideas that just might save the world.”—THE GUARDIAN
The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.
-
![]()
Sophie Yeo
NATURE'S GHOST
"Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today." CHRIS PACKHAM
In Nature’s Ghosts, award-winning journalist Sophie Yeo examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last Ice Age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries. She explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth.
-
![]()
Jem Bendall
BREAKING TOGETHER
"This is a prophetic book." SATISH KUMAR
This book describes people allowing the full pain of our predicament to liberate them into living more courageously and creatively. They demonstrate we can be breaking together, not apart, in this era of collapse. Professor Jem Bendell argues that reclaiming our freedoms is essential to soften the fall and regenerate the natural world.
KEY INFORMATION
1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION
(12 Sessions)
£12
+ bring a friend for free
ONE YEAR ACCESS TO 12 SESSIONS
Join us the 4th Sunday of every month. You will receive an introductory email with all of the dates and links you need.
WHAT TO PREPARE
READING LIST & SESSION STRUCTURE
Each session will begin with a presentation on the key theme, explored through the pages of the book of the month.
Each months presentation also includes the theories of two reference texts for further study where suitable.
We then go in to open discussion with our Guest Author and all those joining us online.
It is recommend to read & familiarise yourself with the book of the month and do a little research on the reference texts where inspired.
*Many books we will be working with have PDF / Audible versions online where preferred. We will also send a link to purchase the book as recommended by the Guest Author.
SEPTEMBERS MEETING
Our discussion & studies will be centred around an exploration of what lies Beyond Extinction.
We will explore key thinkers, concepts & actions rooted in Multispecies Studies:
A multi species ethics ‘proposes practices for thinking-with, for not-knowing, for becoming-with each other a ‘we’ capable of responding, rather than knowing in advance. ’
Donna Haraway
We will enter these studies through the pages of:
The Wake of Crows
‘This book is an exploration of possibilities for living and dying well with others – human and not – in an increasingly uncertain world…If we can weave the world together differently, in new ways, we can produce alternative understandings and therefore possibilities.’
Thom Van Dooren
DISCUSSION
Beyond Extinction
-
REFERENCE TEXT
Extinction Studies
Stories of Time, Death, and Generations
Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, Matthew ChrulewExtinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters—and to whom.
-
KEY TEXT
The Wake of Crows
Thom Van Dooren
The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world. He explores contemporary possibilities for shared life emerging in the context of ongoing processes of globalization, colonization, urbanization, and climate change. Moving among these diverse contexts, this book tells stories of extermination and extinction alongside fragile efforts to better understand and make room for other species. Grounded in the careful work of paying attention to particular crows and their people, The Wake of Crows is an effort to imagine and put into practice a multispecies ethics. In so doing, van Dooren explores some of the possibilities that still exist for living and dying well on this damaged planet. -
REFERENCE TEXT
Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane
For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from dozens of languages and dialects of the British Isles. Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and literary terrain of the British archipelago, from the Shetlands to Cornwall and from Cumbria to Suffolk, offering themed glossaries of hundreds of these rare, deeply local, poetical terms, organized by such geographical terrains as flatlands, uplands, waterlands, coastlands, woodlands, and underlands. Landmarks is a book about the power of language and how it can become a way to know and love landscape, from a writer acclaimed for his own precision of utterance and distinctive, lyrical voice.
ONE YEAR ACCESS TO 12 SESSIONS
Join us the 4th Sunday of every month. You will receive an introductory email with all of the dates and links you need.
