Beth McRae?s 40 years as a midwife have been packed full of unforgettable moments, from the terrifying experience of witnessing her first birth as a nav̐e student nurse - in the days when the words ?birth plan? were unheard of and what women wanted was a long way from being part of any plan - to working in one of the most isolated corners of Australia. Beth?s career of catching babies takes her from the bush to the city and back again as she discovers...

Cows can love, play games, bond, and form strong life friendships. They can sulk, they can hold grudges, they can have preferences and can be vain. In this insight into this secret life of cows, the author argues that compassion in farming makes sound economical as well as ethical sense.

'In this folksy, magnetic tale, two outsiders seek healing and enlightenment by creating crop formations in a Wiltshire field ... A memorable hymn to beauty' OBSERVER 'The pleasures of this bountiful novel are like a glass of cool water on a parched summer day' THE TIMES England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men - traumatized Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone - set out nightly in a clapped-out...

Paul's life in rural Kent - which he shares with his dogs, sheep, cows, chickens and owls - is as far removed from the bright lights of celebrity as you could possibly imagine. This book offers a very personal insight into the life of a national treasure.

Written by the Whitbread prizewinner Kate Atkinson, 'Human Croquet' is an exhilarating and witty novel which provides an audacious blend of history, Shakespeare, and a hilariously dysfunctional family of eccentrics.

From the author of 'Light a Penny Candle' and 'The Lilac Bus', 'Firefly Summer' tells the story of four fateful years in the life of a small, sleepy Irish town, focusing on the family who run the local pub.

Any garden belongs to everyone who sees it - it is like a book and everybody who visits it will find different things. Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades. It is rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets; but it is not his own. His relationship with the garden's owner is both distant and curiously intimate, steeped in the mysterious connection which exists between two people who inhabit...

A touching and deeply personal memoir from the 'Countryfile' presenter and Cotswold farmer that explores the hidden family history of his late father Joe - the black sheep in a family of high-achieving entertainment veterans - and the unbreakable bond and passion for farming which father and son shared throughout their lives. Adam also reveals the family traits and experiences which made him the man he is today, along with family photographs and love...

It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth's son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up ... Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their different worlds. In this complex thriller, Philippa Gregory deploys all her insight into what...

There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of the sleepy French backwater of Saint-Louis.