Philip Womack

More curious canine incidents: Dogs and Monsters, by Mark Haddon, reviewed

Mesmerising accounts of dogs feature in these latest stories, including Actaeon’s tragic hounds, St Antony’s comforting mutt and Laika, the husky hurled into space

Actaeon savaged by his own dogs in a detail of ‘Diana and Actaeon’ by Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Younger, 1721. [DeAgostini/Getty Images]
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  • Dogs and Monsters

    Mark Haddon

    Chatto & Windus, pp. 336, £20

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