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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.”
Read on…
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Shakespeare’s Dog (a novel)
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SuperDog’s Doghouse of Solitude
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Dachshunds in a Detective Novel
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William Robert Spencer: Llewellyn and His Dog
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The Art of the Chase
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The Tale of Sun-Ka the Wise Dog
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Samuel Beckett’s Houndishness
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Dog Tales Kentucky Style
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The Story of the Faithful Dog (1836)
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Milan Kundera On Dogs
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The Bootblack’s Dog
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The Tale of How the Dog’s Tongue Became Long
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Dance, Doggie, Dance!
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Another Nobel Prize Winning Dog Tale
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Shakespeare’s Dog: Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Gabriel García Márquez: Eyes of a Blue Dog (1950)
Posted 02 Jul 07
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