- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781409084969
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
Painting The Darkness
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781409084969
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
A stunning book - racy, chatty, touching and very, very funny.
Joanna Lumley
The most amazing canal journey of them all.
Daily Mail
One of my favourite books of the year.
Emma Soames, Saga Magazine
An astonishing read.
Libby Purves, Radio 4 Midweek
Written with the author's glorious sense of humour, this is one of those journeys you never want to end.
The Good Book Guide
Their personal motto could be "brave but never foolhardy".
The Times
... Wonderfully entertaining. I read Narrow Dog pretty well at one sitting.
Timothy West and Prunella Scales
It has a real unputdownable quality and once started you might as well cancel any appointments until you've finished.
Canal and Riverboat
A wonderfully funny book, full of brilliantly written passages.
Brian Patten
Narrow Dog has been welcomed as a classic by one reviewer and is among Amazon's top twenty best-sellers.
The Guardian
There's kind of a moral to the tale as well.
John Inverdale and Johnny Walker, Radio 2 Drivetime
Wonderful, moving and inspiring - it's a great read.
David Moorcroft, Chief Executive, UK Athletics
It's more than a memoir, it can be treated as a quotations quiz. And you can quote me on that.
Nigel Rees
Sparkling with comic and poetic insights to a France you never knew existed - a France viewed from the back side.
Keith Wootton, Producer of ITV's Waterworld
Great fun and very well written.
Blue Flag
'A richly atmospheric journey suffused with summer heat and occasional cabin fever, reaching its climax on the flamingo-studded inland sea of the Camargue... The writing is as muscular and lean as its canine hero, conjuring up dawn mist or giant catfish in prose haiku before moving on to the next killer one-liner... A rich and winning comic debut, destined to become a classic of the downshifting genre.'
Sunday Telegraph