Five Diddly Squat books, and a cookbook.
Published by Michael Joseph at Penguin. The first was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and they have run at roughly two hundred and twenty-four pages each ever since.
The books.
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm
The first, and a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Two hundred and twenty-four pages of the first year, written in…
Diddly Squat: 'Til the Cows Come Home
The second. Cattle, and the discovery that cattle are considerably more complicated than sheep, which were already complicated.
Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly
The third. Pigs, and the reason Richard Ham exists.
Diddly Squat: Home to Roost
The fourth. Two hundred and twenty-four pages, and by this point the series had a settled rhythm.
Diddly Squat: The Farmer's Dog
The fifth, and the pub one. Buying a derelict fifteenth-century barn and opening it as a pub, written by the…
The Farmer's Dog Cookbook
Not a Diddly Squat book — the pub kitchen, written down. Thirty-four pounds, sold through the pub shop, and entirely…
Why the books are different from the programme.
The television programme is made by a production company for a streaming service, with everything that implies about rights, windows and editorial control. The books are columns — written in the first person, with the same voice as the Sunday Times pieces and none of the editing.
They are consequently blunter about the money, which is the most interesting part of the whole story and the part a television edit tends to smooth over.
The catalogue.
| Title | ISBN | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm | 9780241464502 | 2021-11-11 |
| Diddly Squat: 'Til the Cows Come Home | — | 2022 |
| Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly | — | 2023 |
| Diddly Squat: Home to Roost | 9781405972253 | 2023 |
| Diddly Squat: The Farmer's Dog | 9781405981972 | 2024 |
| The Farmer's Dog Cookbook | — | 2025 |
Read the chapters instead.
Forty of them, indexed and decoded.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
Chapter forty-one is this platform. The ledger carries on from there, and every number granted is logged permanently in Recording.
Because the production files do not reset either. Peepshow named theirs CF4_CH26_Pubbing. It is one continuous work, and we number it as one.
Elsewhere on the estate.
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