<p><b>The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series <i>All Creatures Great and Small</i>. </b><b>This edition contains <i>If Only They Could Talk </i>and<i> It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet</i>.</b><br><br>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 . . .<br><br>Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold m
