Confessions of a
Recovering Environmentalist

His honesty and courage are admirable, his insights sparkle and his style – in a distinctively English register – is fluent. Kingsnorth is a welcome addition to such voices of sanity as Wendell Berry, Ursula Le Guin, Gary Snyder, Val Plumwood, David Abram and Edward Abbey. We need them more than ever.
Times Literary Supplement

Kingsnorth at his best, a tremendous combination of the personal and the political . . . There’s plenty to enjoy, learn from and even inspire.
The Observer

Quietly revolutionary … To read them is to feel the ground begin to shift slightly under your feet, as the pillars that previously supported your worldview start to crumble and fall away.
The Scotsman

An important and stimulating collection of essays from a radically original writer.  
Geoff Dyer

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Confessions is a collection of the best of my non-fiction writing from 2009 to 2017. It includes all of the essays I wrote for the Dark Mountain series, charting my developing ecological thinking, as well as the full text of Uncivilisation, the original Dark Mountain manifesto.

All that, plus ruminations on Morecambe Bay, the essence of modern England, Charles Bukowsi, green men, suicide and various other topics designed to keep you awake at night, at least if I’m doing my job properly.

Faber & Faber (UK), Graywolf Press (US), 2017.

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