Working as a senior editor at The British Library, Catherine Britton, of Arnstones Road, had the chance to search the archives for material useful for her paperback.
?Dogs in Books? celebrates the role of more than 30 canines in literature, some in contemporary writing, but also others in works by Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens.
It features reproductions of illustrations from rare editions of classic literature, such as the first edition of Conan Doyle?s Hound of the Baskervilles and the original images of Timmy the dog from Enid Blyton?s Famous Five.
?This is my first book,? she said, ?And was written whilst I was working for the British Library. As I was surrounded by books, and as I love dogs, it seemed like a very happy combination.?
Harwich's Lee Meachen ended his year on a glorious high ? by striking gold at the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championships, in Bournemouth.
George Michael has been released from hospital in Vienna and will be able to celebrate Christmas at home, Austria's state broadcaster has reported.
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