Dog and the Man

What is the secret of Ireland's greatest sausage maker? Does a dog care about its name? What can we learn from the habits of bees? These 19 short stories whisk the reader from a Greyhound bus in 60s California to a future without real jam, via the iniquities of am-dram and encounters with ghosts in a Cotswold garden. Funny, mysterious, sad, ghostly and wistful, this collection will take the reader on intriguing journeys in the company of the dreamers, the hopeful, the solitary, the misled and the confused.Phil Lawder is a poet and novelist, a storyteller and chronicler of the undertows and quiet desperations just below the ordinary.