One Garden Against the World

In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate

Kate Bradbury

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Bloomsbury Wildlife
24 September 2024

Memoirs; Prose: non-fiction; Conservation of wildlife & habitats; Natural & wild gardening; Wildlife: general interest

Five years after writing her first nature memoir, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Kate Bradbury has a new garden.

It’s busy: home to all sorts of wildlife, from red mason bees and bumblebees to house sparrows, hedgehogs and dragonflies. It seems the entire frog population of Brighton and Hove breeds in her small pond each spring, and now there are toads here, too. On summer evenings, Kate watches bats flit above her and for a moment, everything seems alright with the world.

But she knows habitat loss remains a huge issue in gardens, the wider countryside and worldwide, and there’s another, far bigger threat: climate change. Temperature increases are starting to bite, and she worries about what that will mean for our wildlife.

In her uplifting new book, Kate writes passionately about how her climate-change anxiety pushes her to look for positive ways to keep going in a changing world. As in her first memoir, she invites you into her life, sharing stories of her mum’s ongoing recovery and her adventures with her new rescue dog, Tosca.

One Garden Against the World is a call to action for all of us – gardeners, communities and individuals – to do more for wildlife and more for the climate. Climate change and biodiversity loss go hand in hand, but if we work together, it’s never too late to make a difference.

By: Kate Bradbury
Imprint: Bloomsbury Wildlife
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781399408868
ISBN 10: 1399408860
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

KATE BRADBURY is an award-winning writer specialising in wildlife gardening and the author of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. She’s the Wildlife Editor of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine and has a regular Country Diary column in The Guardian. She writes for the RHS The Garden magazine, The Wildlife Trusts members’ magazine and BBC Wildlife. Kate’s garden has been featured on Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Gardeners’ World. She lives in Brighton with her partner, Emma, and their rescue dog, Tosca.

Reviews for One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate

Heartfelt and impassioned… an invitation to a deeper relationship with the world around us, and proof of what might be achieved if we became true custodians of our nearby nature. * Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley * One Garden Against the World is a brilliantly subversive, deeply humane, angry and passionate book. Kate Bradbury’s skill is to weave such huge forces with an enviable lightness of touch. * Hugh Warwick, author of Cull of the Wild * An empowering reminder that we can all make a difference. Absolutely vital. * Hannah Bourne-Taylor, author of Fledgling *