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  • Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
  • Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
  • Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
  • Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
  • Adrian Tinniswood: The Power and the Glory
  • Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
  • Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
  • Robert Harris: Precipice
  • Nigel Slater: A Thousand Feasts
  • Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
  • Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
  • Ben Robinson: English Villages: An Extraordinary Journey through Time

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Dark Puss

Do cats have a favourite book about a dog? Surely not? Well yes actually and it is Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov.

Simon S

I wouldnt say I have any specific favourite dog books myself but I will say that The Dog by Kerstin Eckman was a brilliant tale seen through a dogs eyes in wonderful vividness.

Mary McCartney

'Greyfriars Bobby'! My primaryschool teacher read it aloud to us and I sat there with tears streaming down my face. The same thing has happened with every subsequent reading.

Cornflower

Oh, poor Bobby!!

Dark Puss

I would also nominate White Fang by Jack London if you will allow the dog family rather than purely Canis lupus familiaris. It is a fantastic novel which as well as evoking the harshness of the place, and time, in which it is set raises issues of morality and redemption. I'll warn Cornflower that the wolfdog of the title has a tough time of it.

Alice C

My favourite dog-book is Jock of the Bushveld but my favourite dogs-in-books are the Cocker Spaniels that appear in Enid Blyton which is probably why I decided to have one of my own.

Georgina

Oh, dear. Late reading this as usual. I recommend 'The truth about dogs' by Volker Kriegel, introduced in the English edition by Julian Barnes, so that possibly gives it more gravitas than it deserves. It's actually a very entertaining cartoon book about the behaviour of dogs and their people. No crying here, unless it's tears of laughter.

Pebbledash

Oh that bit about the Lassie film made me smile...I went and saw it with another doggy friend, we were the only two people in the entire cinema, and within ten minutes of the film starting we were howling...and we didn't stop until the film ended.Far too harrowing.

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