A G Street farming books

[jackrussell101]

Hi all,

I bought Farmers Glory a couple of months ago and I've nearly finished it and really enjoyed reading it, and I'm just wondering which book of his to read next?

Does anyone know what order his books are in? Or if there is any order to them at all? I see The Endless Furrow seems to be the next most popular one...

 

[Tubbylew]

Shameful harvest, they're all good mind.

 

[Flat 10]

Strawberry roan

 

[Gander]

I think the order is as follows:

Farmers Glory 1932*
Strawberry Roan 1932
Hedgetrimmings 1933*
Country Days 1933*
Land Everlasting 1934*
The Endless Furrow 1934
Thinking Aloud 1934*
Country Calendar 1935*
To Be a Farmers Boy 1935*
Farming: How to Begin 1935* (Same book as above reprinted under a new title)
The Gentleman of the Party 1936
Moonraking 1936*
Farming England 1937*
Already Walks Tomorrow 1938
A Year of My Life 1939*
A Crook in the Furrow 1940
Wessex Wins 1941*
Harvest by Lamplight 1941*
Round the Year on the Farm 1941*
Hitlers Whistle 1943*
From Dusk Till Dawn 1943*
Holdfast 1946
Ditchampton Farm 1946*
Landmarks 1949*
In His Own Country 1950 (A selection of writings from previous books) *
Wheat and Chaff 1950*
Shameful Harvest 1952
Kittle Cattle 1954
Feather Bedding 1954*
Sweetacres 1956
Master of None 1956*
Bobby Bocker 1957
Cooper Crossing 1962
Fair Enough 1962 (Writing as 'James Brian')
Fish and Chips 1964
Johnny Cowslip 1964

Those with an asterisk are all Street writing about his experiences and thoughts and some of his articles for FW and other publications. Those without an asterisk are all novels. My favourites are The Gentleman of the Party, Already Walks Tomorrow and The Endless Furrow.

 

[chaffcutter]

I thought I had read most of them until I saw that list !!

 

[Hawkes]

I thought I had most of them until I saw that list too! I have just read Endless Furrow for the first time and it is a good read, as much about social attitudes of the day, trade versus land owning gentry and tenants/landlords as about the farming business nuts and bolts. Just as pertinent today alas, most of it! Looks like I have some amazon ebay trawling to do and find the rest.
If you like old farming books look out for Adrian Bell ones, (father of Martin Bell I think?) Corduroy and the follow on Silver Ley is one of the best atmospheric reads for getting into old agriculture, I have read that regularly for 60 years and still enjoy it.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I thought I had most of them until I saw that list too! I have just read Endless Furrow for the first time and it is a good read, as much about social attitudes of the day, trade versus land owning gentry and tenants/landlords as about the farming business nuts and bolts. Just as pertinent today alas, most of it! Looks like I have some amazon ebay trawling to do and find the rest.
If you like old farming books look out for Adrian Bell ones, (father of Martin Bell I think?) Corduroy and the follow on Silver Ley is one of the best atmospheric reads for getting into old agriculture, I have read that regularly for 60 years and still enjoy it.

Totally agree. Another one worth reading of that era is "Early to Rise, A Suffolk Morning" by Hugh Barrett.

 

[Princess Pooper]

I've a fair few of the above and perusing a second hand bookshop at the weekend, have just added Hitler's Whistle and Hold Fast. I did browse through Fish and Chips and Johnny Cowslip but not so much to my taste so they stayed on the shelf. I think Kittle Cattle and Strawberry Roan are my favourites, and then I re-read Gentleman of the Party and Shameful Harvest and change my mind again.

 

[Quaddog]

I chose Farmer’s Glory & Gentleman of the Party many years ago for a prize I won for O level at school. I still have them but had no idea he wrote so many others. Remember seeing an old recording of A G Street being interviewed. He was asked if he wrote primarily to promote farming or for the money, to which he said ‘Oh the money’, which I thought was very honest.

 

[chaffcutter]

He started writing to try and make some money when the returns from farming got so low in the late 1920’s iirc.

 

[jackrussell101]

I think the order is as follows:

Farmers Glory 1932*
Strawberry Roan 1932
Hedgetrimmings 1933*
Country Days 1933*
Land Everlasting 1934*
The Endless Furrow 1934
Thinking Aloud 1934*
Country Calendar 1935*
To Be a Farmers Boy 1935*
Farming: How to Begin 1935* (Same book as above reprinted under a new title)
The Gentleman of the Party 1936
Moonraking 1936*
Farming England 1937*
Already Walks Tomorrow 1938
A Year of My Life 1939*
A Crook in the Furrow 1940
Wessex Wins 1941*
Harvest by Lamplight 1941*
Round the Year on the Farm 1941*
Hitlers Whistle 1943*
From Dusk Till Dawn 1943*
Holdfast 1946
Ditchampton Farm 1946*
Landmarks 1949*
In His Own Country 1950 (A selection of writings from previous books) *
Wheat and Chaff 1950*
Shameful Harvest 1952
Kittle Cattle 1954
Feather Bedding 1954*
Sweetacres 1956
Master of None 1956*
Bobby Bocker 1957
Cooper Crossing 1962
Fair Enough 1962 (Writing as 'James Brian')
Fish and Chips 1964
Johnny Cowslip 1964

Those with an asterisk are all Street writing about his experiences and thoughts and some of his articles for FW and other publications. Those without an asterisk are all novels. My favourites are The Gentleman of the Party, Already Walks Tomorrow and The Endless Furrow.

That's the best and most comprehensive answer I think I've ever seen! Thank you!

 

[CJS]

Totally agree. Another one worth reading of that era is "Early to Rise, A Suffolk Morning" by Hugh Barrett.

Hugh Barrett lived next door to us for several years He was a bit of an eco warrior and hated modern farming My father was the complete opposite but for some reason they got on like a house on fire He was a very knowledgeable and lovely man with ideas ahead of his time

 

[goodevans]

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I think the order is as follows:

Farmers Glory 1932*
Strawberry Roan 1932
Hedgetrimmings 1933*
Country Days 1933*
Land Everlasting 1934*
The Endless Furrow 1934
Thinking Aloud 1934*
Country Calendar 1935*
To Be a Farmers Boy 1935*
Farming: How to Begin 1935* (Same book as above reprinted under a new title)
The Gentleman of the Party 1936
Moonraking 1936*
Farming England 1937*
Already Walks Tomorrow 1938
A Year of My Life 1939*
A Crook in the Furrow 1940
Wessex Wins 1941*
Harvest by Lamplight 1941*
Round the Year on the Farm 1941*
Hitlers Whistle 1943*
From Dusk Till Dawn 1943*
Holdfast 1946
Ditchampton Farm 1946*
Landmarks 1949*
In His Own Country 1950 (A selection of writings from previous books) *
Wheat and Chaff 1950*
Shameful Harvest 1952
Kittle Cattle 1954
Feather Bedding 1954*
Sweetacres 1956
Master of None 1956*
Bobby Bocker 1957
Cooper Crossing 1962
Fair Enough 1962 (Writing as 'James Brian')
Fish and Chips 1964
Johnny Cowslip 1964

Those with an asterisk are all Street writing about his experiences and thoughts and some of his articles for FW and other publications. Those without an asterisk are all novels. My favourites are The Gentleman of the Party, Already Walks Tomorrow and The Endless Furrow.

I have them all and read them all (several times some of them )except Fair Enough,several years ago I was bidding on Ebay for that one and came into the house one Sunday evening after been out for tea and just missed bidding again for it so missed it.If I remember right Holdfast was a particular favourite of mine.If anyone has Fair Enough and would like to pass up on it I would very much appreciate it

 

[andybk]

shameful harvest is my favorite ,

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Hugh Barrett lived next door to us for several years He was a bit of an eco warrior and hated modern farming My father was the complete opposite but for some reason they got on like a house on fire He was a very knowledgeable and lovely man with ideas ahead of his time

I'm glad to hear that Hugh Barrett was a nice chap. I like his other book about his further career as well.
Interestingly, during WW2 he managed a farm (Appleacre) that was just over the road from the farm in Adrian Bell's Corduroy (Farley Hall in the book, High Lodge, Hundon in real life). There must have been something in the water out there.
Both farms are, I think, now in the same ownership, in a cover crop/direct drilling regime.

 

[CJS]

I'm glad to hear that Hugh Barrett was a nice chap. I like his other book about his further career as well.
Interestingly, during WW2 he managed a farm (Appleacre) that was just over the road from the farm in Adrian Bell's Corduroy (Farley Hall in the book, High Lodge, Hundon in real life). There must have been something in the water out there.
Both farms are, I think, now in the same ownership, in a cover crop/direct drilling regime.

Hugh would have liked that In the 70s he was telling my father to grow green manure crops and he could not farm with a can and a bag How right he was His wife was a keen gardener and they had a large garden She did it all with one tool a pair of scissors She just cut the head off plants she didn’t like and left everything else Some how the garden got into the RHS guide books and visitors came from all over the country Locals and visitors could never decide if it was beautiful or a complete mess

 

[glasshouse]

shameful harvest is my favorite ,

Whats that about?

 

[Princess Pooper]

Whats that about?

The War Ag and its effect (don't want to spoil the plot!)

 

[Tubbylew]

Whats that about?

A lesson we'd all do well to remember when dealing with hmg, especially given the current political climate.

 

[andybk]

Whats that about?

about nearly everything thats happening even now ! very relevant story , you soon realise we as an industry keep making the same mistakes over and over