Pets & Animals Books

In an exciting new approach to understanding the British countryside, Peter Friend brings together some of the fascinating recent discoveries about our Earth, thus helping people to enjoy and appreciate the countryside surrounding them.

Sets out to answer questions about hedgehogs, from the practical to the sublime. This book explains what hedgehogs do when they're not in our gardens and why it is that we like them. It features tips on how to make your garden more hedgehog friendly, to explaining how hedgehogs can save the world.

Two's a Crowd When You've Been Top Dog. In this riotously funny book, Stephen Foster picks up where 'Walking Ollie' left off. Intead of one difficult dog, he's got two. Where Ollie sees a threat, Dylan sees a challenge - and Foster finds himself forever somewhere in the middle, trying to work out why they can't just all be friends...

The perfect book for dog lovers everywhere -- is your dog king-of-the-hill!or run of the mill!

A guide to the 2008-2009 National Hunt season suitable for Jumps racing fans. It features interviews with trainers who profile their horses; results of the previous season; profiles of the RFO's horses to follow; top trainers, jockeys and owners for the season; a racecourse guide; and reports from the training regions.

It's time to jump out of the handbag and take control of the lead.

'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination.

One of Britain's favourite actors and star of Doc Martin writes touchingly about his life growing up with dogs and his search to discover their true nature.

Presents a description of the appearance, history and uses of each sheep.

Life for Judith Summers and her son Joshua seemed relentlessly bleak. Then George bounced into their lives. A loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with film-star looks, George reawoke their joie de vivre. Yet Judith soon discovered that living with George had its drawbacks. He was a full-time job and as expensive to run as a Ferrari.

The strange case of the vanishing western honeybee has led to fears that we are dangerously out of kilter with nature. This book examines the environmental, political and economic forces shaping the honeybee's fragile existence - and why the world can't survive without it.

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback about everyone's favourite dog.

A gift book for cat lovers everywhere, showing how to measure your cat's intelligence in a series of easy and fun tests.

Illustrated with wildlife photography and action sequences, this title explores and explains various aspects of animal life and behaviour - from courtship rituals and birth to hunting and death. It features mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates - thousands of all kinds.

Learn what goes on in your dog's mind with Cesar Millan's New York Times bestselling formula for a contented and balanced dog.

Takes reader on a journey that tells them about the extraordinary lives of birds - from conception and egg, through territory and song, to migration and fully fledged breeder.

Including cutesy pet photos and naughty captions, this book features blaspheming bunnies and cussing kitties.

When Jon Katz takes in a young troubled border collie, his calm, sedate life will never be the same again. Jon and his wife live in a New Jersey suburb with two perfectly behaved Labradors. Then into the mix comes Devon, who creates havoc from the moment he arrives.

One winter's afternoon Stephen Foster walked into a dog re-homing centre with the intention of picking up a retired greyhound. Instead, he acquired an abandoned Lurcher pup. Foster's knowledge of dogs was so vague that he had to look up 'lurcher' in the reference work 'The Giant Book of the Dog', to find out what sort of animal was coming to join the family. His research counted for little. The ..

Simon Cowell: 'All my life I've searched for another Lassie and now I've found him!'