Headline has acquired a novel by David Duchovny, best known for starring in TV shows The X-Files and Californication.

Holy Cow: A Modern Day Dairy Tale, is a 'fable with a twist' about a cow, Elsie Bovary, who watches a TV programme about an industrial meat factory before joining forces with some other farm animals including a pig and a turkey. Publishing director Mari Evans described the book, released in February 2015, as a 'passionate defence of the animal kingdom'. Publicity campaign details tba.