Hen Party: A Celebration of Fancy Fowl

A charming guide to keeping beautiful chicken breeds, both common and rare, by one of Britain’s best-selling garden writers.

Gardener, artist, and writer Parkinson has kept flocks of happy chickens since childhood. In this wonderful collection, he distills everything he has learned about his feathered friends into one charmingly illustrated, bite-sized volume featuring his own watercolor portraits of nearly sixty breeds. Inspiring, delightful, and adorned with Parkinson’s own portraits of his “ladies,” this charming book is a delight for chicken aficionados and budding gardeners alike—as well as simply anyone dreaming of a balanced, sustainable life on the land.