Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

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introduction to germs and the human body’s natural response to the microscopic (sometimes) organisms.

This is a big book, with a great deal packed into it that you will not find in any other book about fungi. It speaks to everyone in different ways and reveals the fascinating world, or universe, rather, of fungi.The setting is a house (and a family) in a state of neglect, somewhere in a remote town in Mexico, near an abandoned mine. Each of the 600 gets a whole page to itself with a decent colour photograph of a single specimen or cluster/troop, often with an additional scaled photograph to actual size if the main diagram is not itself actual size. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. I have a lot of mushrooms growing around our property in Ashford, Kent and am looking for a substantial guide that is applicable to my area. Once enticed in to this quirky kingdom, the magical mix of majesty and mystery has enough power to captivate the interest for a lifetime.

Despite such apparently unpromising topics, this is a fascinating read, introducing trees that ‘taste’ deer saliva, flirtatious moths, seedling-“suckling” plants and raven-wolf friendships.Lacking any tradition (apart from rejecting almost everything), we in Britain have the chance to approach this topic with an open mind, and that can only be a good thing. The Deceiver: surprisingly edible, and surprisingly good at fooling you it is actually something else.