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Hound Dog Days: another suitable stocking stuffer!

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Harry Pearson, a man described as funnier than Bill Bryson, was once a cricket magazine contributor, and is now a journalist with the Guardian and prolific author of seven books.

Harry, who lives in Northumberland, is also a dog-lover who keeps company with his dog Mannie. Awoof!

His seventh book – Hound Dog Days – is, in the words of the author, “a collection of shaggy-dog stories.” Contained within the covers of this book are humorous and acute observations on canine and human behaviour.

In an interview with Alistair Gilmour, Harry recalled that he remembered “talking to a woman who had a cocker spaniel which walked ahead and wouldn’t come back whatever she did. It just waited for her to catch up. She said, ‘Labradors are born half-trained, spaniels die half-trained’.”

Little feet, intrepid researcher that she is, has dug up for all my readers another book that is suitable as a stocking stuffer for the dog-mad this Christmas. A book with a rather suitable title: Hound Dog Days, by Harry Pearson. She confesses to me that she’s not read it, and secretly I suspect she’s hoping I get her a copy to chew on over the holiday season… If you want to pick up a copy for the feet in your life, click here to go to my ‘Archie’s Book and Film Club‘

“I thought that was really funny and that I’d have to use it somewhere.”

“Quite often I don’t know people’s names, just the dog’s name but I’ve met people I would never have met otherwise. There’s something odd about a man walking about on his own, like he’s a burglar, or something worse. And people never stop and offer you a lift when you’ve got a dog like they do when you’re on your own.”

Hound Dog Days bounces with vivid descriptions of life in the real English countryside where there are otters in rivers, glue-sniffers in the woods and fisticuffs over fishing rights. It’s Harry Pearson’s mother, however, who nails the subject perfectly. “When it comes to attitude, people could learn a lot from dogs,” she says.

SuperWoof to Harry and Mannie.

Awoof! Archie

Posted 09 Dec 08