This week we are delighted to present a fascinating conversation with Amanda Owen, better known as The Yorkshire Shepherdess! Amanda is the star of the glorious, incredibly popular television series Our Yorkshire Farm, about her rural life in the Dales and also the author of five books, with the most recent being Celebrating the Seasons, about life with her family at Ravenseat Farm, plus a number of delicious recipes. Amanda told us about her collection of antiquated books on agriculture, the book that set her onto her shepherding path, the reads she has shared with her children, a couple of pleas for loaned books to be returned and an unimaginable end for her copy of Judy Blume's Forever. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Amanda Owen - Celebrating the Seasons

Mary Berry - Baking Bible

Nigella Lawson - Howe To Be a Domestic Goddess

Paul Hollywood - Bread

Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson - Ride Again

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind

James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small

WJ Miles - Modern Practical Farriery

James Herriot - If Only They Could Talk

James Herriot - Yorkshire

John and Eliza Forder - Hill Shepherd

Edward Boden - Black's Veterinary Dictionary

Tabatha Lasley - Sea State

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Jacqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracy Beaker

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Eric Carle - Very Hungry Caterpillar

James Herriot - Moses the Kitten

Banjo Paterson - Man from Snowy River

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Lady Diana Shedden & Lady Apsley - To Whom the Goddess

Kim Hamer and Phillipa Page - Sheep Keeping

Hannah Hauxwell - Seasons of My Life

Pema Chödrön - Welcoming the Unwelcome

Iain R Thomson - Isolation Shepherd

Edmund Cooper - Men of Swaledale

HM Fraser - History of Beekeeping

Captain John Harland - A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Judy Blume - Forever

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