14 must-read nature books like The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life by Kate Bradbury

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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life

By: Kate Bradbury

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren…

If you liked the nature plot in The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life by Kate Bradbury , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Seeker (Damian Seeker, #1)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, 1657, the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. No one knows where Damian Seeker originated from… read more

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2. The Black Friar (Damian Seeker, #2)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.38

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

'One of the best writers of Historical crime' Sunday TimesRebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy… read more

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3. Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

By: Marta McDowell

3.75

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

"An enchanting and original account of Beatrix Potter's life and her love of plants and gardening."… read more

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  • gardening
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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4. At Hawthorn Time

By: Melissa Harrison

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An exquisite and intimate novel about four people's lives and our changing relationship with nature… read more

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  • nature
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5. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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6. Destroying Angel (Damian Seeker, #3)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.43

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Captain Damian Seeker has gone north. Charged with preparing the way for the rule of the major-gene… read more

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7. The Bear Pit (Damian Seeker, #4)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.44

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1656: Captain Seeker is back in the city, on the trail of an assassin preparing to strike … read more

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8. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

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9. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

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10. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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11. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • ecology
  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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12. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

By: Laura Cumming

3.58

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

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13. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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14. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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15. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. Rodham

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.83

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a d… read more

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"There are two kinds of marriages: the ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham

"I've learned over many decades that people are likeliest to declare their respect when their behavior suggests the opposite."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham

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17. The House of Lamentations (Damian Seeker, #5)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.49

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer, 1658, and the Republic may finally be safe: the combined Stuart and Spanish forces have bee… read more

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18. The Instant

By: Amy Liptrot

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."

-Amy Liptrot, The Instant

"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."

-Amy Liptrot, The Instant

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19. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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21. All Among the Barley

By: Melissa Harrison

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted At Hawthorn Time comes a major new nove… read more

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  • nature
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22. The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet

By: Dave Goulson

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** The Garden Jungle is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of sm… read more

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  • ecology
  • natural history
  • gardening
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"much of the peat sold in garden centres is now imported from other countries, notably from Ireland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Estonia is a wild and unspoiled country where bears and wolves still r…"

-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet

"We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disa…"

-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet

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23. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

By: Michael E. Mann

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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24. Wilder: How Rewilding is Transforming Conservation and Changing the World (Bloomsbury Sigma)

By: Millie Kerr

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Wilder takes readers on a global rewilding journey, exploring innovative and eye-opening projects l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
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25. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life

By: Kate Bradbury

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren… read more

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  • ecology
  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • autobiography
  • gardening
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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26. How to be a Bad Botanist

By: Simon Barnes

4.07

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you tell a tomato from a grape? Lawn from an oak tree? Then congratulations - you are a botanis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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27. The Book of the Earthworm

By: Sally Coulthard

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

For Charles Darwin—who estimated every acre of land contained 53,000 earthworms—the humble earthwor… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
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28. Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

By: Pierre Novellie

4.56

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Why were the other kids at school obsessed with Britney Spears instead of The Goon Show? Why don't … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Often when people react to new information about autism they end up accidentally correctly pointing out evidence of autism as opposed to evidence of its absence. They end up like someone throwing up …"

-Pierre Novellie, Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

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29. The Gardener's Almanac: A stunning month-by-month treasury of gardening wisdom and inspiration from the nation's best-loved gardener

By: Alan Titchmarsh

3.93

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

National treasure and presenter of ITV's hugely popular Love Your Garden, Alan Titchmarsh brings us… read more

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30. Gardening for Bumblebees: A Practical Guide to Creating a Paradise for Pollinators

By: Dave Goulson

4.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

'Go on, have a flutter! Take a few tips from the new book by biologist Dave Goulson and it's a safe… read more

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  • ecology
  • natural history
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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31. Lux

By: Elizabeth Cook

3.43

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

King David sings his psalms. A world away, King Henry plots. And courtier Thomas Wyatt sees them bo… read more

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18 Best nonfiction books like The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life by Kate Bradbury

Transform Your Habits

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

Marta McDowell

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

Michael Palin

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Wilding

Isabella Tree

4.46

Transform Your Habits

On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

Laura Cumming

3.58

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

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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Isabella Tree

4.46

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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

Oliver Milman

4.07

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The Lost Rainforests of Britain

Guy Shrubsole

4.30

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