The Best of James Herriot: Favorite memories of a country vet James Herriot’s own selection from his original books, with additional material by reader’s digest editors Text previously published in the following volumes is copyright James Herriot If Only They Could Talk 1970 Let Sleeping Vets Lie 1973 It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet 1972 Vet in Harness 1974 Vet in a Spin 1977 James Herriot’s Yorkshire 1979 The Lord God Made Them All 1981