The title of this book is, of course, highly accurate. It is well known that while dogs have owners, cats have staff.

This is definitely a book worth having, and a good companion to the usual sort of writers' prompts collections.

Although this book was published over ten years ago, it is still worth reading.

I am pretty sure that all this binge-watching and doom scrolling reduces the number of active brain cells.

Because Hensher has read so many novels, the reader feels in safe hands.

The funny thing about reading the first few pages of a book is that the outcome can sometimes be the opposite of what you’d expect.

This is a collection of essays or meditations on looking and seeing or, fundamentally, visibility.

A strange sort of book, this. A mixture, it seems to me, of fiction and autobiography.

I have enjoyed reading the C Comics, especially the mock advertisements and the parodies of famous comic book characters like Nancy, Archie and Veronica.

I am not familiar with Irish myths and tales, so this beautiful collection of stories is quite an eye-opener.

Before I read a book properly, especially if it has only just arrived, I like to get its measure. I look it up and down. Are its shoes polished?