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The forty-five short stories in this collection are dark; humorous; off-beat with a twist. If you enjoy reading Dahl or Saki, you might well enjoy reading these (it’s a theory, anyway).
Ragu The Eskimo – They say the innuit language has fifty words to describe fifty type of snow. Ragu hated all fifty types of snow.
Blood – There’s only so much evidence a small Jack Russell can dispose of.
Belief Is Everything – Albert and Des set off to find out whether America exists.
Crime – The butler did it, but where’s the proof?
Autumn 1797 – The man from Porlock has come to fix the drains.
The Monkey That Came Down From The Trees – The biggest problem facing a monkey today is: trees.
There are absolutely no zombies or vampires contained within the pages of this book – only pandas (there’s a few of them).
Beginning with a man’s attempts to help support wildlife that are frustrated by unfortunate events (Adopt An Ant), and ending with a monkey who climbs down to the ground, creates a despotic kingdom and journeys beyond the Earth (The Monkey That Came Down From The Trees).
Within this collection are stories that are faintly normal: (Bullying – a man looks back on his life of being bullied); (Fidelity Of Detail – a photographic print shop worker befriends a camera-toting geek) ; to the frankly ridiculous: (The Death Of Bernard – a man; a frog; a gun).
Inside, you will meet aliens (It Speaks, The Last Hope, The Ducks’ Tales), strange animals (The King Of The Erewash Canal) – including vicious sloths (Appearances Are Deceptive), strange people (All Is Quiet) and find the real stories behind historic events (Autumn 1797, Autumn 1609, The Inventors’ Club).
This collection includes fairy tales (It Never Happened), crime (Crime, Blood), science fiction (Uncle Jack’s Letter) and scientific endeavours (The Giant Panda Count) and you will learn of the faked existence of America, what really happened on the HMS Beagle, how the numbers of large, shy creatures are estimated and the limits to which a small Jack Russell can be used to dispose of evidence.
Stories that make you smile – some quirky, some thought provoking and some that made me laugh out loud! Looking forward to It Never Happened Too! 😁
Little Dog On A Lead 