Finding Lights in a Dark Age.

I've absolutely loved Chris Smaje's previous two books. Smaje has been locked in life-or-death tussle with the journalist George Monbiot - bravely articulating what many of us think about Monbiot's celebration of lab food. Monbiot here is reduced to a very brief cameo - somewhat like a pantomime baddy; mercifully diminished. "Finding Lights in a Dark Age" is, instead, a much more personal book.…