I’ve made some changes to the blog, as anyone who’s been here before will probably notice (and if you’re a new visitor, hello and welcome!). You can now buy both my books, Chickens As Pets and Cannibal Delia, directly from Amazon by clicking the links in the sidebar or the covers featured in this blog entry.

Chickens As Pets is a friendly, easy to understand guide to keeping chickens as pets in towns and cities, priced at £3.99. It’s got a five-star (out of five) review so far and is doing pretty well.

Cannibal Delia is a ‘best of’ collection of my poetry and costs less than two quid, which I hope readers will see as a bargain when it contains 48 poems.

Both books are available to buy from Amazon’s UK, US, French, German, Italian and Spanish online stores.

There will soon be an interactive iPad edition of Chickens As Pets (its website has preview screengrabs on the Press page). I’m going through the Apple application process to get it into the iBookstore. It’s ready to go and I’ll update this blog as soon as it’s available.

There’s a website for Chickens As Pets and you can like the Facebook page, follow on Twitter and +1 on Google+.

CHICKENS AS PETS – KINDLE EDITION – CONTENTS

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: A chicken book for the 21st Century
Chapter 2: Can I keep chickens if I’m not a farmer?
Chapter 3: Hybrids and pure-breeds
Chapter 4: Urban cockerels
Chapter 5: Confessions of a chicken addict
Chapter 6: You can never have too many eggs
Chapter 7: Every hen needs a house
Chapter 8: Introducing new chickens to an established flock
Chapter 9: Broody hens
Chapter 10: The joy of hatching chicks
Chapter 11: Chicken enemy number one AKA the fox
Chapter 12: Man’s best friend can’t always be trusted
Chapter 13: Rats and mice are thieves in the night
Chapter 14: Not all birds of a feather flock together
Chapter 15: Sickness, disease prevention and culling
Chapter 16: When hens eat eggs
Chapter 17: Egg-bound hens
Chapter 18: Sour and impacted crops
Chapter 19: Coccidiosis
Chapter 20: Red mite, the vampire that feeds on chickens
Chapter 21: Scaly leg
Chapter 22: Mycoplasma
Chapter 23: Mud’s no fun for chickens
Chapter 24: Chickens are not Chihuahuas
Chapter 25: What you can do with chicken poo
Chapter 26: Emily’s story
Chapter 27: And finally…
About the author

CANNIBAL DELIA – CONTENTS

About the Poet
If Love
Cannibal Delia
Victorian Grief
As You Sleep A While
The Shadow
Clock
Romulus and Remus
Stories of Dad I
Ghost
Welcome to London
River Songs
Lament
Stories of Dad II
Write
The Conversion of Christ
Dalek
Love Like Cigarettes
We Sing the Land Alive
Anne Sexton
A Moment
Compass
Last Night I Dreamt I Was The Earth
Avalon
Male Model
The Onion
When I Wake Up
Dalek bin Laden
Stories of Dad III
A Bit of Rough
Samhain
The Acheron Ferryman
Recipe
I Wish You Weren’t Dead
Name Bearers
Fanfaronade
Dark
The Sodcaster
The Ballet and the Blood
Failed Actor
Stories of Dad IV
Voice
Old Lady Girl
A Rock Biography
Why Does the House Stay Clean?
My Little Nurture
For Liam
Amy
Do Daffodils Dream?