Amanda Owen - You're Booked

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