The deciding moment
Rory Stewart was offered a large dog who seemed to have a few health and other 'issues'. I like that...
Of ardent persistence
One of my favourite literary dogs is Ottimo Massimo, who belongs to the tree-dwelling protagonist of one of Calvino's best...
One wrong move
Babur is one of my favourite dogs, full of character and occasionally stubborn and ornery. Here his new master, Rory...
Meet the Barone
Listening time: under 4 minutes.Â
Casting back across the sweep of history, there is only a handful of...
Survival savvy
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
Inspired by the true story of a dog trained by the Soviets to...
Of life, lovers, spaniels and sympathy
Orlando's four hundred year span seems to boil down to the search for Life, Love and Authorship. Here she is...
On being attentive and polite
If Dorothea, the heroine of George Eliot's Middlemarch, doesn't win you over with her profound and subtle range of human...
The dog who understood
This mongrel, scooped up off the streets, in Vasily Grossman's imagined story of the real creature who was the first...
I love Babur – II
Again, splendid, awkward Babur, the massive mutt picked up by Rory Stewart while trekking across Afghanistan. Usually Rory has to...
Street dogs
I love dogs and the towns owned by them, always feeling reassured when you see dogs confidently, busily and independently...
Trust in dogs and roses
When humans fail you, dogs and roses remain, which has the advantage of simplifying the business of living and stripping...
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