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Stars of All Creatures Great and Small, Nicholas Ralph and Anna Madeley record the audiobooks for two James Herriot books, and talk about their experiences, favourite stories, characters to voice and above all, what makes them laugh!
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The perfect listen for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot’s much-loved books, with insights into his life and work from his children Rosie and Jim.
With astute observations and boundless humour, country vet Herriot captures the spirit of the Yorkshire Dales and of rural communities on the cusp of change, before tractors and machines had taken over and modern medicines and antibiotics transformed veterinary work. Along the way a beloved cast of characters emerges, from the squabbling brothers Tristan and Siegfried to Herriot’s hapless courtship and eventual family life with Helen Anderson. But it’s the animals which are at the heart of Herriot’s stories. Whether he’s dodging a raging bull on a risky artificial insemination assignment, becoming pen pals with Tricki Woo the spoilt Pekingese pooch, or the inevitable trials and tribulations of lambing season, there’s never a dull moment in Herriot’s company.
At times moving and often laugh-out-loud funny, The Wonderful World of James Herriot will delight fans old and new.
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Stars of All Creatures Great and Small, Nicholas Ralph and Anna Madeley record the audiobooks for two James Herriot books, and talk about their experiences, favourite stories, characters to voice and above all, what makes them laugh!
LISTEN to The Wonderful World of James Herriot here: bit.ly/45S7GKj
LISTEN to Every Living Thing by James Herriot: bit.ly/3PDWgnW
MORE about the The Wonderful World of James Herriot:
The perfect listen for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot’s much-loved books, with insights into his life and work from his children Rosie and Jim.
With astute observations and boundless humour, country vet Herriot captures the spirit of the Yorkshire Dales and of rural communities on the cusp of change, before tractors and machines had taken over and modern medicines and antibiotics transformed veterinary work. Along the way a beloved cast of characters emerges, from the squabbling brothers Tristan and Siegfried to Herriot’s hapless courtship and eventual family life with Helen Anderson. But it’s the animals which are at the heart of Herriot’s stories. Whether he’s dodging a raging bull on a risky artificial insemination assignment, becoming pen pals with Tricki Woo the spoilt Pekingese pooch, or the inevitable trials and tribulations of lambing season, there’s never a dull moment in Herriot’s company.
At times moving and often laugh-out-loud funny, The Wonderful World of James Herriot will delight fans old and new.
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![Ann Cleeves and Brenda Blethyn on Detective Fiction and the Vera Stanhope Series
Crime writer Ann Cleeves, creator of the Vera Stanhope, Shetland and Two Rivers series of detective books, and actor Brenda Blethyn, who plays Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope in the TV adaptations, discuss the Vera Stanhope novels and whats next for the character, writer, and actor.
Ann Cleeves is best known for her detective fiction series, with her Vera Stanhope series being translated to screen. Her crime books are beloved by many.
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00:22 - Ann Cleeves and Brenda Blethyn Introduction
00:27 - What Crime/Detective Fiction Have the Pair Been Reading?
01:46 - Vera in Relation to other Fictional Detectives
02:46 - What Brenda Has Been Up To Since Filming Finished
03:25 - The Future of the Vera Stanhope Series
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![Who Are the Women of the Joubert Family? | The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse
Bestselling author Kate Mosse talks us through the women of the Joubert family, who are the heart of her Joubert Family Chronicles, an immersive historical fiction series ending with The Map of Bones.
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Mosse gives us both the satisfying intricacy of historical fact and a fictional narrative that carries us along at a rollicking pace. The long, rich, tragic history of the Huguenots deserved a series of novels as brilliant and well researched as [The Joubert Family Chronicles], in which the past is felt deep in the reader’s bones – The Observer
A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land.
Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, arrives in search of her cousin ― the notorious she-captain and pirate commander Louise Reydon-Joubert ― who landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years before, then disappeared without a trace . . .
Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne’s perilous journey, another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family ― Isabelle Lepard ― has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations. Intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the crimes and tragedies still shadow the present. And now, Isabelle faces a race against time if she is to discover the truth, and escape with her life . . .
Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map of Bones is the fourth – and final – novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears and The Ghost Ship.
This is adventure-stuffed historical fiction in the grand tradition – The Telegraph
A fittingly terrific conclusion [to The Joubert Family Chronicles] – i newspaper
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