LVF Community Book Club – Rivers

We are excited to launch the second series of our Community Book Club! 📖 

As before, we are sharing a list, rather than a single book, on the theme so that we can come together to have a diverse and insightful discussion on the topic, so members can have freedom of choice over the book they want to read, and so that we can swap books at the end of the session to ensure the books are multi-use. *If you’re not a member yet, sign up for free here*

🌊Our second theme will be on rivers 🌊

Rivers are the lifeblood of ecosystems, knitting together landscapes, sustaining biodiversity, filtering and transporting nutrients, and replenishing wetlands and groundwater that underpin both wildlife and human communities.

Yet these systems are under growing strain: climate change is altering precipitation patterns, shrinking glaciers, intensifying droughts and floods, and disrupting the seasonal flows that many species depend on. At the same time, pollution—from agricultural runoff and industrial effluents to untreated sewage and plastic waste—degrades water quality, fuels harmful algal blooms, and fragments habitats when combined with poorly planned infrastructure.

The result is a cascading loss of ecological resilience, diminished freshwater biodiversity, and reduced natural services such as carbon sequestration and flood mitigation, making the protection and restoration of river systems an urgent environmental priority.

The books we have chosen for our next LVF Community Book Club are: 

• Is a River Alive by Robert Macfarlane 
• Waterlog by Roger Deakin 
• A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald 
• The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer 
• Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 

We will be coming together in Spring 2026 to discuss and swap our books –  keep an eye out for further announcements over email on the date/time/location! We will then pick the third theme as a group. 

See you there!