Farm & Working Animals

'a delightful and funny memoir of her family's crazy life in the English countryside. Perfect escapist reading for these locked-down times.' - SALM...

A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this littl...

A World Book Night book. A New York Times–bestselling book about the extraordinary abilities of man’s best friend. When Cat Warren adopted Solo, an...

From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in human-orchestrated entertainm...

'A love story, a meditation on meat eating, on farming animals, on the relations between man and beast. Yallop writes with great tenderness' Daily ...

In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war...

The Egyptians worshipped them, the Romans dressed them in fitted coats, the Christians made the shepherd synonymous with their divine saviour. In S...

This is the true story of an unusual hero. Tall, dark and handsome and often surrounded by an admiring crowd, this is no film star but an eight-yea...

Did you know that Bad-Tempered Bradford Cattle are used for rodeos? Impress friends and relatives with interesting facts about 45 breeds of cattle,...

‘To call Alice “just another pig” would be the gravest insult.’ Alice the Large Black pig was Paul Heiney’s best friend, his confidante and his the...

Develop a deeper, more positive relationship with the animals in your life and become a better person along the way. All around you, animals are ac...

What is it about the humble pig that holds such a special place in our hearts?In a frosty field on the longest night of the year, eight little pigl...

Journey into the heartland of rural Ireland, in words and images, from the 1930s to today. Meet the characters behind the Ploughing Championships, ...

Any chicken owner will know that there's more to these endearing, quirky, clever characters than the eggs they produce. Cluck is a celebration of h...

Chickens are an ideal family pet, requiring less attention than a dog yet being entertaining, productive and educational. For the family and would-...

No creature has been subject to such extremes of reverence and exploitation as the chicken. Hens have been venerated as cosmic creators and rooster...