Books with title Running the Dogs

Tom Leyton, a reclusive Vietnam veteran, has been the subject of rumour and gossip for thirty years. When Joseph Davidson, his young neighbour and a talented artist, is asked to draw a portrait of him, an uneasy relationship begins to unfold, one that will force each of them to confront his darkest secrets. This is a story about how we perceive others, the judgments we make about them, how we cope with tragedy, and the nature of miracles.

The Hunters are coming. It was time for the Running. The Foxlings must flee. But first they have to rescue a Polish fur fox from the Zoo. Cats run the railways, parakeets do the aerial survey, the squirrels, with their tiny hands, pick the locks. Rats are guides. Hawks help along the way. Without the Creature Code, it wouldn’t happen. The Running is the first book in the series ‘All the Sky’.

1913. Whitby, North Yorkshire. Beneath the watchful gaze of the abbey ruins, Howie and his two friends enjoy an idyllic childhood roaming the cliffs, with little thought to wider global tensions. But when, in December 1914 the town is shelled by German warships each must face up to trials and heartbreak in their own lives, which lead them to join up. But separated from his friends en route to France, Howie is pitched into the chaos of the trenches on the Western Front, alone and scared. Now Howie must not only negotiate the challenges of war but also his own tricky path into adulthood. When Howie is given a strange order concerning the redundant cavalry stables it plunges him into the parallel world of a rural French commune, where his life is to take yet another surprising turn. Against the cruel backdrop of scenes no man should have to face, The Running Boy picks out glimmers of what every young man must face, weaving masterful threads of hope and redemption between the carnage and brokenness of the First World War.