Press Release:
It's a Vet's Life! Pets In Prospect

Words @ Frome Festival are delighted to welcome another new face to this year's festival celebrations.

Retired vet, Malcolm D.Welshman, will discuss a lifetime with animals that's resulted in his bestselling novel, 'Pets in Prospect'. In James Herriot style, it follows a newly qualified vet's hilarious ride through his new job in a Sussex animal hospital.

Malcolm Welshman has worked as a vet at London Zoo, in a small animal hospital on the South coast and as a consultant specialising in exotic animals.  Now retired, he lives in Somerset with a menagerie of pets, roe deer around the house and badgers in the garden.

In PETS IN PROSPECT he draws on his wealth of personal experience in dealing with eccentric animals and their even more eccentric owners to produce a highly entertaining book which will appeal to all animal lovers.  Set in a Sussex animal hospital, against the backdrop of the South Downs, it tells the story of newly qualified vet, Paul Mitchell, and follows his engaging exploits in the first six months at the hospital.  It's the equivalent of a modern-day James Herriot and the first in a planned series.

Although this is his first novel, Malcolm has been writing about animals for many years and has had over 200 articles published.  He has written for many publications including The Lady, She, Yours, Home & Country, People's Friend, Cat World and the Sunday Times.  He was the vet for My Weekly magazine for 15 years and currently writes a monthly page for Parrots magazine.

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