Jennie Durant's Bitter Honey is a great exposé of the true cost of industrially farming US honeybees, finds Thomas Lewton. But the book's grim figures of bee death alone may not prompt deep change – how about seeing them as fellow creatures?
A honeybee flies with pollen balls stored in pollen baskets on its legsJennie Durant
Bitter Honey
Jennie Durant
Princeton University Press (US, 26 May; UK, 28 July)
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