Dog book reviews, author interviews & exclusive book extracts. We get our hands on all the latest dog books & we read them & speak to their authors so you can decide if you’d like to read them too.
I first tried to write my memoir Dog Medicine as a novel. As I was writing, I slowly began to realize that I had chosen to fictionalise the story because I was scared to write the truth, writes Julie Barton.…
Very often it is assumed that those who are ‘dog mad’ as adults must have grown up around animals. But this isn’t always the case. Sometimes the love of the dog is born from something else. From moments snatched greeting…
I have put my life in a dog’s paws. More than once, I have entrusted life and limb to one of our four-legged chums. I have been to Afghanistan twice, the first time as a newspaper journalist and the second…
When special ops warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle, he figured this would be no different from countless other anti-narcotics operations. A Combat Weatherman, he was serving with the Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR). However, this mission…
Have you ever sat down and recalling your dog’s many nicknames pictured what accent they’d have if they were human? It would certainly make it easy to commentate on their daily adventures. But would you consider going one step further…
Dog lovers with an eye for history might already know something of Britain’s ‘hero’ canines who won medals for bravery at the end of the Second World War. Indeed, their stories have been told many times over. But where did…
Senior dogs are wonderful. They’re calm, mellow, sweet, loveable, and they’re usually already house-trained. All of these traits make them so much easier than puppies — and yet as wonderful as animals over the age of 7 are, they often…
I dreaded losing my first dog, Jude, and it was every bit as bad as I’d anticipated. He died when he was 12, his kidneys failed after years of treatment for allergies and itchy skin, which we had managed with…
The Labrador Retriever is a dog whose reputation goes before him. A dog whose good nature and loyal disposition are legendary. It isn’t just the Labrador’s good points that are widely recognised. Most of us also know all too well…
I was happily minding my own business penning historical novels, when everything went topsy-turvy, and suddenly there I was writing Stepdog – a contemporary romantic-comedy reflecting my own up-ended life, says Nicole Galland. While penning the historical novels, I’d been…
Dogs have fought alongside man in combat since at least the 7th century BC, when the War Dogs of Magnesia helped battle the invading Ephesians. During WWII, the number of dogs that saw service ramped up considerably, as did the…
Some people are lucky enough to recall memories of growing up with dogs by their sides, others remember pleading with parents and jumping through hoops to show they’re mature enough to care for another being. Yet sometimes fate intervenes and…
Irène Johnson (known as Buster) was born at Versailles in 1907, to a French mother and English father. She was 29 when she married Johnny, swapping her cultured upper middle class life for one of frequent chaos and uncertainty. In…
In the heat and dust of Afghanistan, RAF Police Flight Sergeant Will Barrow and his bright-eyed Spaniel, Buster, risk their lives every day, dodging the Taliban’s sniper bullets as they lead out on foot patrol, alert for IEDs. This is…
At this time of year, black ice or hard packed snow make horrible conditions to go out in. Even though we expect at any minute to slip, slide or wallop down on our backsides, when we do, our insides cartwheel.…
In Science, the road to discovery is a long and crooked one. To this I can testify. It is filled with many more failures than successes and these failures are significant because they can guide us towards our goal. My…
The veterinarian rubbed Kelly’s sides for emphasis. She needs to weight loss. If not … Peggy Frezon recognized the list of serious ailments that followed. It was the same one her own doctor had given her. Dieting With My Dog…