A New Diddly Squat Book Is Coming This October — And Judging By This Year, There’s No Shortage Of Material
Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat book series has become almost as reliable an annual fixture as the farm’s own harvest headaches, and this October brings the next instalment. Publishers have confirmed a new Diddly Squat title releasing on 8 October 2026, continuing a series that’s already produced several genuine bestsellers documenting the ongoing chaos of Clarkson’s life as a working farmer.
The official description promises exactly what longtime readers have come to expect: “more dysfunctional dispatches from Clarkson’s Farm,” as Clarkson and what the blurb affectionately calls his “long-suffering family and colleagues” face down a fresh barrage of uncooperative animals, underperforming crops, and whatever other calamities the year has thrown at Diddly Squat.
Given everything that’s actually happened at the farm this year, there’s genuinely no shortage of material to draw from. Between a failed rabbit breeding scheme, a backbreaking flax harvest that left Kaleb refusing to speak to Clarkson, 200 acres deliberately left unplanted because farming them would guarantee a loss, Britain’s driest July on record, and Clarkson’s own admission that he’s “genuinely scared” about fire risk for the first time in seven years of farming, this year alone could probably fill a book on its own.
The new release continues a series that started with Diddly Squat itself, documenting Clarkson’s first, chaotic year attempting to run a 1,000-acre farm with essentially zero agricultural experience, an origin story that predates even the Amazon television series that eventually turned it all into a global hit. Subsequent instalments, ‘Til The Cows Come Home, Pigs Might Fly, and Home to Roost, have each built on that foundation, mixing genuine farming misadventures with Clarkson’s trademark irreverent commentary on red tape, bureaucracy, and what he clearly views as the absurdity of modern British agricultural policy.
It’s a genuinely smart piece of ongoing brand-building for the wider Diddly Squat operation. Fans who’ve followed Clarkson’s Farm across five television seasons get a considerably more detailed, first-person account of the same underlying chaos, delivered in Clarkson’s own distinctive written voice rather than filtered through television editing. For readers who’ve never watched a single episode, the books work perfectly well as standalone comic writing, in the same vein as his decades of Sunday Times and Sun newspaper columns collected in earlier bestsellers.
With Clarkson’s Farm season six still filming and not expected until summer 2027, the new book arrives at a genuinely useful moment to keep the wider Diddly Squat story in front of fans during the gap between television seasons. Given how eventful this particular farming year has already proven to be, cancer recovery, fire risk fears, a Kaleb cold shoulder, and a genuinely bleak assessment of farming’s financial future all included, this instalment looks set to be one of the more substantial entries in the series yet.
