Hannah Velten

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Publishing
Occupation Author
Location Village in, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Introduction Welcome to my blog if you haven't stumbled this way before. I research and write about animal history (social history and animals = my passion). I live in the East Sussex countryside with my husband, young son and daughter and our Black Labrador. Follow me on Twitter: @hannahvelten and my website: www.hannahvelten.com. I also run Red Letter Books, inspired by the loss of my brother, Chris. www.redletterbooks.co.uk
Interests the Countryside, Social History, Cows, Pigs, Human-Animal Interaction
Favorite Movies Pan's Labyrinth, The Sixth Sense, Jaws, Top Gun, American Beauty, Grumpy Old Men, Sideways, Murial's Wedding
Favorite Music Badly Drawn Boy, Crowded House, Supergrass, Prince, The Editors, Paul Weller, Rolling Stones
Favorite Books The Secret History, Water for Elephants, Rebecca, The Cow, Fingersmith, Riding the Iron Rooster, Man and the Natural World, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Cold Comfort Farm, The God of Small Things, anything by Louis de Bernieres, anything by Margaret Atwood, I Capture the Castle, Water Music, Perfume: Story of a Murderer

The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:

He ate it by mistake and croaked it.