all creatures great and small book series

'Herriot's enchanting tales of life in the Dales are deservedly classics. 'I grew up reading James Herriot's books 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 All Creatures Great and Small is a television series, set in 1937, based upon a series of books about a Yorkshire veterinarian written by Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain's best-loved authors Since they were first published, James Herriot's memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. And when he meets Helen, the beautiful daughter of a local farmer, all the training and experience in the world can't help him. 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. All Creatures Great and Small is the latest drama commission announced for Channel 5, the home of factual series The Yorkshire Vet which is set in James. This edition contains If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet.įresh 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. The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small.

All creatures great and small book series