` The author's prose is always a delight.. . a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' Times Literary Supplement Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred & the profane in turn, the frivolous & the serious, the deeply personal & the most universal. The shame & humiliation inherent in death is explored with frank astuteness. Matisse, darts & the power of love are celebrated; while cyclists are very much censured. & meanwhile, a beloved old Labrador walks his last walk as life elsewhere hurtles on & away... The Dog's Last Walk is a collection of wisdom & iconoclasm for our uncertain times, & one that reveals one of our greatest writers in all his humanity.