'I wish that everyone who said they believed in angels would actually believe in insects...'

Why rebel?
Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.

Because we need a politics of kindness, but the very opposite is on the rise. Libertarian fascism, with its triumphal brutalism, its racism and misogyny - a politics that loathes the living world.
Because nature is not a hobby. It is the life on which we depend, as Indigenous societies have never forgotten.

Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars, and they are lining up now to write rebellion across the skies.
This passionate, poetic manifesto for urgent rebellion is also a paean to the deep and extraordinary beauty of the natural world.

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Reviews and Endorsements:

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"Jay Griffiths is such a unique talent and is, in my opinion, one of our greatest and most important writers of this and any other time. She is part of that lineage which includes William Blake and Walt Whitman and I get that same feeling when I read her words and theirs: I feel so alive, so vital, a kind of bursting at the seams with joy and love. Why Rebel is not only important at this time but also magnificent, in the true meaning of that word. It contains not just important truths and beautiful words: the book communicates to the reader, through exquisite and deep prose, a sense of that profound and mysterious relationship with Earth, our home and all life upon it. It is truly extraordinary."

- Ed O'Brien, Radiohead

"Wonderful, essential and timely. " - John Burnside

She has her feet on the land, and her eyes on the stars."

- George Monbiot

"I recommend it highly and mightily, thoroughly and wholeheartedly"

- Stanley Donwood

"It is hard to imagine a more necessary book - nor one more beautiful, more rich and passionate"

- Tom Bullough

"Always a writer of such dazzle and depth, Jay Griffiths has surpassed herself with Why Rebel.  There is of course the passionate erudition and deep humanity that we have come to expect of her, but there is so much more too.  Her focus is laser-like, unblinking, calling out culprits and charlatans, and fighting fascists with the things they fear the most: clarity, truth, wit.  Jay Griffiths has given us a clarion call for revolution.  Nothing less will do."

- Mike Parker

"Poetic in its intensity, filled with the fire of radical politics."
- The Guardian

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