{"title":"Jeremy Clarkson","description":"\u003cp\u003eFind your next read from \u003cstrong\u003eJeremy Clarkson\u003c\/strong\u003e. Bestsellers in our range include \u003cem\u003eDiddly Squat: the Farmer's Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDiddly Squat: Home to Roost\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDiddly Squat A Year on the Farm\u003c\/em\u003e. Reading a series? 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But profits remain elusive.\n\nAnd yet while the farm may be called Diddly Squat for good reason, Jeremy soon begins to understand that it's worth a whole lot more to him than pounds, shillings and pence . . .\n________\n\nPraise for Clarkson's Farm:\n\n'The best thing Clarkson's done . . . It pains me to say this' THE GUARDIAN\n\n'Shockingly hopeful' THE INDEPENDENT\n\n'Even the most committed Clarkson haters will find him likeable here' THE TELEGRAPH\n\n'Quite lovely' THE TIMES","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40833056178291,"sku":"9781405946537","price":280.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/51YYIAvxRvL.jpg?v=1684840571"},{"product_id":"9780241674901","title":"Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly","description":"Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. Since taking the wheel three years ago Jeremy's had his work cut out. And it's now clear from hard-won experience that, when it comes to farming, there's only one golden rule-\n \n Whatever you hope will happen, won't.\n \n Enthusiastic and inventive schemes to diversify have met with stubborn opposition from the red trouser brigade, defeat at the hands of Council Planning department, and predictable derision from Kaleb - although, to be fair, even Lisa had doubts about Jeremy's brilliant plan to build a business empire founded on rewilding and nettle soup. And only Cheerful Charlie's still smiling about the stifling amount of red tape that's incoming. But he charges by the hour.\n \n Then there are the animals- the sheep are gone; the cows have been joined by a rented bull called Break-Heart Maestro;. the pigs are making piglets; and the goats have turned out to be psychopaths.\n \n But despite the naysayers and (sometimes self-inflicted) setbacks, Jeremy remains irrepressibly optimistic about life at Diddly Squat. 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The spring barley crop failed.\nJust like the oil seed rape.\nAnd the durum wheat.\nThen the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid and the mushrooms went mouldy.\nFarming sheep, pigs and cows was hardly more lucrative. Jeremy would be better off trying to breed ostriches. But in the face of uncooperative weather, the relentless realities of the agricultural economy, bureaucracy, a truculent local planning department and the world's persistent refusal to recognise his ingenuity and genius, our hero's not beaten yet. Not while the farm shop's still doing a roaring trade in candles that smell like his knacker hammock, he isn't. On the face of it, the challenges of making a success of Diddly Squat are enough to have you weeping into your (Hawkstone) beer, but misery loves company and in girlfriend Lisa, Farm Manager Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald his Head of Security Jeremy knows he's got the best. And it's hard for a chap to feel too gloomy about things when there's a JCB telehandler, a crop-spraying hovercraft and a digger in the barn. Because as a wise man* once said, 'there's no man alive who wouldn't have fun with a digger . . .'\n*Jeremy \n---- \nPraise for Clarkson's Farm: 'The best thing Clarkson's done . . . It pains me to say this' GUARDIAN 'Shockingly hopeful' INDEPENDENT 'Even the most committed Clarkson haters will find him likeable here' TELEGRAPH 'Quite lovely' THE TIMES Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, October 2024","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42601324347507,"sku":"9780241728208","price":418.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/51LCLuInW8L._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1732881432"},{"product_id":"9781405981972","title":"Diddly Squat: the Farmer's Dog","description":"Uncooperative animals, underperforming crops, and rather less than best-laid plans pursued with unbridled enthusiasm. Clarkson's farm is the gift that keeps on giving.\n \n But, as one overseas visitor* admitted, he only came to Diddly Squat because he just didn't believe that Jeremy could be so incompetent.\n \n Not one to be discouraged, however, our hero decides to bring his misunderstood entrepreneurial flair to bear on a new venture: a pub. And just a few short weeks later, the doors open on The Farmer's Dog.\n \n All British produce, Hawkstone beer on tap, a private bar for farmers and a vintage tractor hanging from the ceiling. The perfect country pub. A welcome distraction from sustainable farming initiatives, psychedelic wheat, angry protests in central London and a headbutting goat.\n \n What, you may be asking, could possibly go wrong?\n \n On top of the lavatories packing up and the electricity running out, you mean? As the Cotwolds' newest publican quickly discovers, there's a lot more to landlording than pulling pints.\n \n Just as well, then, that he still has Lisa, Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald to help him through. 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Jeremy would be better off trying to breed ostriches.\n \n \n \n But in the face of uncooperative weather, the relentless realities of the agricultural economy, bureaucracy, a truculent local planning department and the world's persistent refusal to recognise his ingenuity and genius, our hero's not beaten yet. Not while the farm shop's still doing a roaring trade in candles that smell like his knacker hammock, he isn't.\n \n \n \n On the face of it, the challenges of making a success of Diddly Squat are enough to have you weeping into your (Hawkstone) beer, but misery loves company and in girlfriend Lisa, Farm Manager Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald his Head of Security Jeremy knows he's got the best. 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That cows were more dangerous than motor-racing? Or that it would have been easier to get planning permission build a nuclear power station than to turn an old barn into a farm restaurant?\n\nBut if the council planning department and the local red trouser brigade seem determine to frustrate his schemes at every turn, at least he's got Lisa, Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald, his dry-stone-walling Head of Security to see him through. And cold beer brewed with spring barley harvested from Diddly Squat's own fields ...\n\nLife on Clarkson's Farm may not always go according to plan. There may not always be one. 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A few short weeks later, The Farmer’s Dog opens its doors — proudly serving all-British produce, Hawkstone beer on tap, a private bar for farmers, and a vintage tractor hanging from the ceiling. The perfect country pub… or so it seems.\nBetween malfunctioning toilets, blackouts, psychedelic wheat, angry London protests, and a headbutting goat, Clarkson soon learns that running a pub may be even trickier than running a farm. 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