Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World - Louis de Bernieres

Red Dog - Louis De Bernieres

Red Dog is a lesser known book by Louis De Bernieres, who wrote the famous ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ which was turned into a film. I first saw the book Red Dog towards the end of 2002, which made it perfect as a birthday present for me! As my big day is in December, I have to wait all year for all my presents (boo) but in this instance I was happy to put it on my wish list! Plus the fact it was £5.99 for a very slim book made me want to receive it rather than buy it! OK, yes I’m a meanie! It really appealed to me as it was set in Australia, a place very close to my heart as my best friend lives there. I usually visit her once a year and thought I would read the book ...

Red Dog - Louis De Bernieres

has been known to wolf an entire can of dog food in under nine seconds, although he prefers to filch sausages and steaks from those ubiquitous Australian barbies. Louis De Bernieres book traces its eponymous hero through anecdote and memory. For Red Dog was a real dog. Inspired by a bronze statue of him in the town where he lived, de Bernieres collected and collated all the many stories about Red Dog. We hear about his scrapes, his travels, his troubles. We hear too, about the land he inhabited and the people he knew. Some of the stories are funny. Some of the stories feel like a little slice of social history. Some of the stories are sad. Binding them together, making ...

Louis De Bernieres in general

This novel - the fourth by Louis De Bernieres - is wonderful. Set in 1941, it tells of the war-time occupation of the Greek island of Cephalonia by the Italians and then subsequently the Germans. The early chapters describe an idyllic life on a beautiful island in the Ionian Sea and are full of humour with their accounts of the local characters. The mood turns to bleakness with the ignominious Italian invasion of Greece, the brave and determined fightback by the Greeks who would have routed their attackers had Hitler not saved Mussolini s face by a German invasion. The humour returns in the form of Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer posted to ...