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.BOOKSDaisy Buchanan - InsatiableDaisy Buchanan - CareeringAmanda Owen - Celebrating the SeasonsMary Berry - Baking BibleNigella Lawson - Howe To Be a Domestic GoddessPaul Hollywood - BreadClarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson - Ride AgainKhaled Hosseini - The Kite RunnerZadie Smith - Changing My MindJames Herriot - All Creatures Great and SmallWJ Miles - Modern Practical FarrieryJames Herriot - If Only They Could TalkJames Herriot - YorkshireJohn and Eliza Forder - Hill ShepherdEdward Boden - Black's Veterinary Dictionary Tabatha Lasley - Sea StateGillian Flynn - Gone GirlJacqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracy BeakerJeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy KidEric Carle - Very Hungry CaterpillarJames Herriot - Moses the KittenBanjo Paterson - Man from Snowy RiverMalorie Blackman - Just Sayin'Lady Diana Shedden & Lady Apsley - To Whom the GoddessKim Hamer and Phillipa Page - Sheep KeepingHannah Hauxwell - Seasons of My LifePema Chödrön - Welcoming the UnwelcomeIain R Thomson - Isolation ShepherdEdmund Cooper - Men of SwaledaleHM Fraser - History of BeekeepingCaptain John Harland - A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, YorkshireJilly Cooper - RidersJudy Blume - Forever Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.