![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There has, though, been a gap in the market, or the hedge, for an adult animal detective novel, a gap which the German author Leonie Swann has successfully gnawed and wriggled her way through with her debut novel Three Bags Full, an actual and proverbial left-field international bestseller in which a flock of rare-breed sheep living in a place called Glennkill in Ireland set about solving the mystery of the death of their shepherd, George, who has been found with a spade through him.Īnimal tales in English literature tend towards either the whimsical or the fabular, with the work of Richard Adams, Kenneth Grahame and EB White all herded together in one stall, and Orwell's Animal Farm on its own in another. ![]()
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