John Connell is a multi-award-winning author, film producer, investigative journalist andfarmer. His documentary programs have won over a dozen international awards. Hisnumber-one bestselling memoir The Cow Book was awarded Popular Non Fiction Book ofthe Year at the Irish Book Awards. He lives in County Longford.
"A vivid and sharply observed account of a way of life which is almost invisible, a new hidden Ireland. It is also a fascinating portrait of a single sensibility, a born noticer, someone on whom nothing is lost, observing birth and death, the landscape and his own heritage -- Colm Tóibín on THE COW BOOK I usually view rural Ireland from a train or car window but reading this gripping, fascinating book I felt I was becoming a cattle farmer -- Roddy Doyle on THE COW BOOK A gorgeous read, full of warmth, truth and tentative wonder. John Connell has written ""an elegy to the nature I know"", but this book is an elegy to so much more - to art and myth and sorrow and longing -- Sara Baume on THE COW BOOK"