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Every Living Thing
- Author
- James Herriot
- Narrator
- Nicholas Ralph
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 9 November 2023
- Run Time
- 12 hours 38 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Memoirs, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, The countryside, country life: general interest, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Fiction based on or inspired by true events
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. Charmingly read by Nicholas Ralph, who plays James Herriot in the TV series.
In Every Living Thing James Herriot brings back familiar and much-loved friends, including his partner Siegfried and his most lucrative patient, the delightful Tricki Woo. There are some some new arrivals too, such as the abandoned and terrified mongrol Titch who finds the perfect home with a gruff grocer and feral kittens Olly and Ginny who live in James and wife Helen's back garden. Above all, the veterinary practise in Darrowby is enlivened by a marvelouslly eccentric assistant, Calum Buchanan, who arrives with a pet badger and proceeds to add dogs, owls and a monkey called Mortimer to his growing menagerie.
Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Full of unique characers, funny and touching, Every Living Thing is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.
'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
Critics Review
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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
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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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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.
Daily Mail
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 2.0
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5.0 2.0
Love the Herriot books and have listened to all of them up to this one which were read by Christopher Timothy. . But only got a part way through this because of the accents, they’re just painful. I won’t be finishing it or getting any more but the same narrator. Maybe I’ll buy the books and read them!
aidan 2025-04-10
Details
- Author
- James Herriot
- Narrator
- Nicholas Ralph
- Duration
- 12 hours 38 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 November 2023
- ISBN
- 9781035042241
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Memoirs, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, The countryside, country life: general interest, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Fiction based on or inspired by true events
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 2.0(1 review)
Synopsis
The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. Charmingly read by Nicholas Ralph, who plays James Herriot in the TV series.In Every Living Thing James Herriot brings back familiar and much-loved friends, including his partner Siegfried and his most lucrative patient, the delightful Tricki Woo. There are some some new arrivals too, such as the abandoned and terrified mongrol Titch who finds the perfect home with a gruff grocer and feral kittens Olly and Ginny who live in James and wife Helen's back garden. Above all, the veterinary practise in Darrowby is enlivened by a marvelouslly eccentric assistant, Calum Buchanan, who arrives with a pet badger and proceeds to add dogs, owls and a monkey called Mortimer to his growing menagerie.Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Full of unique characers, funny and touching, Every Living Thing is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.'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
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