I review non-fiction books for a number of publications. I welcome advance copies of titles related to my specialisms and interests including: Latin America, India, Wales, Spain, Portugal, nature, landscape, walking, running, community, books about books, human rights, sustainability, international affairs, and business ethics.
Please send books for review to:
Oliver Balch, Typographic Co-Work, Campo dos Mártires da Pátria 144 A, Porto 4050-368, Portugal
Oliver Balch is the author of three books published by Faber & Faber: Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders; India Rising; and Viva South America!
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Book reviews by Oliver Balch:
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature (Granta) // Reviewed in The Spectator, June 2020 READ REVIEW
Who Killed Berta Cáceres?: Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Kakhani (Verso) // Reviewed in Americas Quarterly, June 2020 READ REVIEW
Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick (Allen Lane) // Reviewed in The Literary Review, April 2020 READ REVIEW
Bolívar’s Afterlife in the Americas: Biography, Ideology & the Public Sphere (Palgrave Macmillan) // Reviewed in Americas Quarterly, January 2020 READ REVIEW
Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football by Tobias Jones (Head of Zeus) // Reviewed in the Financial Times, November 2019 READ REVIEW
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age by James Crabtree (Oneworld) // Reviewed in The Literary Review, July 2018 READ REVIEW
The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins (Faber) // Reviewed in the Financial Times, June 2018 READ REVIEW
Between Stone and Sky: Memoirs of a Waller by Whitney Brown (Constable) // Reviewed in The Spectator, May 2018 READ REVIEW
The Long Spring: Tracking the Arrival of Spring Through Europe by Laurence Rose (Bloomsbury) // Reviewed in The Spectator, April 2018 READ REVIEW
Franco: Anatomy of a Dictator by Enrique Moradiellos (I B Tauris) // Reviewed in The Spectator, February 2018 READ REVIEW
River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges & India’s Future by Victor Mallet // Reviewed in the Financial Times, October 2017 READ REVIEW
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury (Bloomsbury Circus)
The End of Karma: Hope and Fury among India’s Young by Somini Sengupta (W W Norton) // Reviewed in The Literary Review, August 2017 READ REVIEW
The Tiger and the Ruby: A Journey to the Other Side of British India by Kief Hillsbury (Oneworld) // Reviewed in the Financial Times, July 2017 READ REVIEW
Turning: A Swimming Memoir by Jessica J Lee (Virago) and Floating: A Life Regained
By Joe Minihane (Duckworth Overlook) // Reviewed in The Literary Review, June 2017 READ REVIEW
The Village News: The Truth Behind England’s Rural Idyll by Tom Fort (Simon & Schuster) // Reviewed in The Spectator, April 2017 READ REVIEW
How to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America Reviewed in The Spectator, September 2016 READ REVIEW
Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human by Vybarr Cregan-Reid (Ebury Press) // Reviewed in The Literary Review, August 2016 READ REVIEW
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