Many authors write non-fiction science about animals in a detached way. Not Horowitz. With eloquence and skill, she writes about dogs as if they are people, while remaining a champion of science and an authority on all things canine.
I love creative approaches to science writing and this book – an imagining of what would happen to dogs if humans disappeared – delivers it all: fresh perspectives, top-drawer science and an original, thought-provoking hook.
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I still cannot believe that Bradshaw managed to cram so many facts and research findings about dog science into this book, yet somehow kept it so readable.
Wonderdog: How the Science of Dogs Changed the Science of Life by Jules Howard is out now (Bloomsbury Sigma, £17.99)
This 1944 classic is the story of a sheepdog afforded a human-like brain through hormone therapy. The premise might sound comic book, but in Stapledon’s hands it becomes a masterpiece about acceptance, grief, love and what it is to be human.
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This book first awakened me to the fact that dogs were helping scientists unlock big questions about animal consciousness and cognition. Quite simply, [my book] Wonderdog would not exist without it.
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