Vet in a Spin
10 best books like Vet in a Spin (James Herriot): The Spotted Sphinx, Hotel Bemelmans, The Cat and the Curmudgeon, Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall, Three Singles to Adventure, The Hills is Lonely, Out of Harm's Way, The Kindness of Strangers: The Autobiography, What's It All About, The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy
| Author | Joy Adamson |
| ISBN | 0151847959 |
Joy Adamson, world-famous for her books about Elsa the lioness, has a new and enthralling story to tell. Its heroine is Pippa, an elegant, affectionate but enigmatic cheetah - the spotted sphinx.
"Mrs. Adamson is confirmed as one of the most remarkable women of her times... I believe The Spotted...
| Author | Ludwig Bemelmans |
| ISBN | 0091887879 |
If there is such a thing as a comfort food book, Bemelmans' stories are it. His evocative tales of grand hotel life have a reporter's eye for sensory detail, yet he always manages to bathe his world and it's lovable characters in the mood of a fairytale. Meet the girl-hungry hotel Magician, Kalakobe the...
| Author | Cleveland Amory |
| ISBN | 0641588267 |
Many other reviews hated the author's convoluted sentence structure, but I had no trouble reading the writing. In fact, most of the hilarity in this book was due to the very tongue in cheek delivery style associated with this style of writing. However, for the first time in a number of years, I met a book...
| Author | Spike Milligan |
| ISBN | 0140051961 |
I could read Spike Milligan all day. He is the funniest writer I’ve ever come across. Pure silly, slapstick humour but tinged with sadness. He lost some good friends during the war years. From his war memoirs the general consensus is he had as much interest in the war effort as a truant has at school. While...
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0140020829 |
Three Singles to Adventure is about Gerald Durrell's travels in search of exotic animals in South America.
"Adventure" is the name of a small village near Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. This early book by Gerald Durrell chronicles his 1950 expedition to what was then called British Guiana,...
| Author | Lillian Beckwith |
| ISBN | 1888173424 |
The Hills is Lonely tells a simple tale: needing to recuperate from an illness, the author finds a suitable retreat on the Hebridean island of Bruach, whose inhabitants, routines, and rituals are as eccentric and entertaining as any reader could wish. Beckwith's narrative describing island life...
| Author | Terri Crisp |
| ISBN | 0671522787 |
This is the one book that got me involved in animal rescue back in 1998 when I first read it. Written after the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in south Florida, it highlights the hard work and total frustration that animal rescue workers endure to try to save even one terrified animal left behind in the...
Kate Adie has courageously reported from all over the world since she joined the BBC in 1969. These memoirs encompass her reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and, of course, the Gulf War of 1991. From the siege at the Iranian embassy which shot her to public...
| Author | Michael Caine |
| ISBN | 0345386809 |
I learned that Maurice Micklewhite would be an excellent subject for an autobiography even if he never became famous. Caine writes the rare star autobiography that is just as interesting in telling of life before fame as after. He writes just like he talks. You get a sense of his personality. I loved his...
The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy
| Author | Gavin Maxwell |
| ISBN | 0140290494 |
Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he named his home Camusfearna and settled there with the otters Mij, Edal and Teko.
Ring of Bright Water chronicles Gavin Maxwell's first ten years with the otters...
| Author | Joan Collins |
| ISBN | 0671473603 |
Joan Collins has been a soft target in the press for many years. Her five husbands, unwise film choices and sheer flamboyance has often overshadowed her tenacity, innate intelligence and enduring wit. A British contemporary of Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, Collins is one...
| Author | Craig Thomas |
| ISBN | 0061099082 |
David Craig Owen Thomas was a Welsh author of thrillers, most notably the Mitchell Gant series.
The son of the Western Mail rugby union writer, JBG Thomas, Craig was educated at Cardiff High School. He graduated from University College, Cardiff in 1967, obtaining his M.A. after completing...
| Author | William Horwood |
| ISBN | 0006472184 |
A century after the great days of moledom described in the great Chronicles, Privet, a lonely female pilgrim from the north, arrives in fabled Duncton Wood. Only old Stour, Master of the Library, realizes the importance of her quest. For Privet seeks an answer to moledom’s final mystery: where and...
