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All Creatures Great and Small

The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

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All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
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This audio edition is read by Nicholas Ralph, known for his role as James Herriot in the All Creatures Great and Small TV series.

** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 **

Since they were first published, James Herriot’s 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 Britain’s 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 can’t help him . . .

'Nicholas Ralph’s narration is grand...A talented mimic, the star of the newer production can hold the stage alone, taking both voices in an argument. Ralph expresses adoration of domesticated animals and the wild Scots who own them. Ralph channels the Herriot magic, wrapping these tough eccentrics in a light that cheers and ennobles us all.' - AudioFile

'Herriot's 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

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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
Herriot's 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)
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'
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How could you not love this glorious story? So beautifully written, so beautifully narrated. I read the original, have watched both TV series and now, this lovely reading is wonderful.

A lovely book indeed

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Easy, enjoyable and companionable listening and beautifully read. Great stories to relax with. I loved it.

Charming as ever.

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I have a lifelong live affair with these stories. James' accent in this audiobook is the cherry on the sundae!

Classic for a reason

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Enjoyed. Well read. Think I’ll listen to it again . Now i want the next book
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Wonderful

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This makes a much better TV series than it does a book. Sure its all very nice, but that starts to wear thin very quickly. If only this well loved book had a central plot and a feeling of progressive momentum...

Instead it is just a collection of connected short stories and in this century they feel rather humourless. Sorry, but I think this books day has passed. I previously read this several times in the 1980s, and always remembered it is a light comedy - today it reads like a tired set of diary entries.

Incredibly dull.

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