You loose your marbles when you’ve got a dog: that’s what happens..

One winter’s afternoon, Stephen Foster walks into a dogs re-homing centre with the intention of picking up a retired Greyhound. Instead he acquires an abandoned lurcher pup. Foster’s knowledge of dogs is so vague that he has to look up ‘Lurcher’ in the key reference work "The Giant book of the Dog", to find out what sort of animal is coming to join his family. His research counts for little: the new arrival does not conform to any known breed standard, or indeed any standard whatsoever that might be considered dog-normal.

Walking Ollie is for anyone who has ever loved a dog — a hilarious and very touching account of one man’s struggle to turn a decidedly difficult animal into something resembling a domestic pet