Malcolm Welshman is a retired vet and author. He has written a memoir and four vet-inspired novels, the first of which, Pets in a Pickle, reached number two in the Kindle bestseller list. He was the My Weekly vet for fifteen years and is still a regular contributor to a variety of magazines and online journals including The People’s Friend. For eleven years he was a regular cruise liner speaker undertaking over fifty engagements in that period and has spoken at several literary festivals such as Wells, Folkestone and Frome.
While living as a lad in Nigeria, Malcolm meets and interacts with a host of different animals. There’s the ever-loyal African Bush dog, Poucher, who becomes an integral part of the family and surviving a savage attack by a wild animal goes on to save his mother’s life: Polly, the parrot, who al...