All Creatures Great And Small: "If Only They Could Talk" and "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet" - Hardcover

Herriot, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718113241 ISBN 13: 9780718113247

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 1995

Synopsis

Comprises James Herriot's first two books "If Only They Could Talk" and "It Shouldn't Happen To a Vet", together with three chapters from "Let Sleeping Vets Lie".

About this title

Review:

Bulls with sunstroke, pigs on the run and a cake-eating Peke with a betting habit . . . I grew up reading James Herriot's book and I'm delighted that thirty years on they are still every bit as charming, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny as they were then. (Kate Humble)

The attraction of Herriot's ever popular memoirs of a country vet . . . is their alternating highs and lows, humour and pathos, and gripping anecdotes about delivering lambs, grumpy farmers, hypochondriac pet-owners, stroppy cows and blunt Yorkshire characters. And, of course, there's a powerful nostalgia element in these stories about our green and pleasant land in the day before the ravages of ribbon development. (Daily Mail)

On original release in the 1970s, James Herriot's insights into the life of a working vet were so popular and enchanting to readers that the area of the Yorkshire Dales in which he practised became known as 'James Herriot country'. (Yorkshire Ridings Magazine)

Book Description:

James Herriot's books have sold over 14 million copies around the world - this is the first James Herriot omnibus.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0718113241
• ISBN 13: 9780718113247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448