Diddly Squat Series By Jeremy Clarkson: 4 Books Set (Diddly Squat: A Year On The Farm, ‘Til The Cows Come Home, Pigs Might Fly and Home to Roost)

This four-book set brings together Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat series, returning to life on Clarkson’s farm as he takes on the realities of working the land. Across the collection, Clarkson describes the steep learning curve of becoming “a farmer”, from early missteps and unexpected setbacks to ongoing battles with bureaucracy and red tape.

The books follow successive years at Diddly Squat Farm, with plans that do not always go to plan and day-to-day challenges that continue to test his determination. Along the way, the series touches on everything from machinery choices and harvesting to livestock, planning departments and the pressures of trying to make the farm pay.

Included titles

• Diddly Squat: A Year On The Farm
• Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
• Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly
• Diddly Squat: Home to Roost

Key details

• Four-book set
• Series: Diddly Squat
• Author: Jeremy Clarkson
• Includes the four titles listed above

Synopses

Diddly Squat: A Year On The Farm

Jeremy Clarkson welcomes readers to his farm, where he finds himself with the unexpected job title of “a farmer”. From buying the wrong tractor to combine harvesting, paperwork and chasing athletic cows, he learns that enthusiasm does not always translate into competence.

Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home

After making just £144 in his first year at Diddly Squat Farm, Clarkson is determined to do better. Not because he has mastered farming, but because he is tired of taking stick from Kaleb. Even so, the challenges of farming continue.

Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly

Three years in, Clarkson arrives at what he calls the golden rule of farming: whatever you hope will happen, will not. Attempts to diversify are met with planning obstacles, scepticism from Kaleb and Lisa, and ever-present red tape, with Cheerful Charlie keeping busy by the hour.

Diddly Squat: Home to Roost

Back at Clarkson’s Farm, a spring crop fails and keeping sheep, pigs and cows proves hardly more lucrative. Despite uncooperative weather and bureaucracy, Clarkson presses on, with the farm shop continuing to trade in smelly candles.