ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL : THE CLASSIC MEMOIRS OF A YORKSHIRE COUNTRY VET

** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 ** Since they were first published, James Herriots memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britains best-loved authors. Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semi-feral cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James finds he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him. And when he meets Helen, the beautiful daughter of a local farmer, all the training and experience in the world cant help him . . . I grew up reading James Herriots books and Im delighted that thirty years on, they are still every bit as charming, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny as they were then - Kate HumbleHerriots enchanting tales of life in the Dales are deservedly classics. Full of extraordinary characters, animal and human, the books never fail to delight - Amanda Owen, bestselling author of The Yorkshire Shepherdess