Barking, Tom Holt
Barking, Tom Holt
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Barking

Author: Tom Holt

Narrator: Ray Sawyer

Unabridged: 17 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2011


Synopsis

'Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams' - Christopher Moore

'Holt has a zany humor that will appeal to fans of Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore.' - Library Journal

Monsters are roaming the streets of London. Of course, some monsters are scarier than others:

Unicorns? No bother.
Vampires? Big deal.
Werewolves? Ho hum.

Lawyers? ... Aaargh!

Duncan's boss doesn't think that he's cut out to be a lawyer. He isn't a pack animal. He lacks the killer instinct. But when his best friend from school barges his way back into Duncan's life, with a full supporting cast of lawyers, ex-wives, zombies and snow-white unicorns, it's not long before things become distinctly unsettling.
Hairy, even.

Tom Holt's latest comic novel is a rollercoaster ride of supernatural silliness and biting satire.

Books by Tom Holt:

Walled Orchard Series
Goatsong
The Walled Orchard

J.W. Wells & Co. Series
The Portable Door
In Your Dreams
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps
The Better Mousetrap
May Contain Traces of Magic
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages

YouSpace Series
Doughnut
When It's A Jar
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice
The Good, the Bad and the Smug

Novels
Expecting Someone Taller
Who's Afraid of Beowulf
Flying Dutch
Ye Gods!
Overtime
Here Comes the Sun
Grailblazers
Faust Among Equals
Odds and Gods
Djinn Rummy
My Hero
Paint your Dragon
Open Sesame
Wish you Were Here
Alexander at World's End
Only Human
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Olympiad
Valhalla
Nothing But Blue Skies
Falling Sideways
Little People
Song for Nero
Meadowland
Barking
Blonde Bombshell
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
An Orc on the Wild Side

About Tom Holt

Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines. These interests led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialised in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. He lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife and daughter. He also writes as K. J. Parker.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cora on May 17, 2016

Barking was a wondering variation from the same old fantasy/vampire/warewolf stories (usually involving teenage girls). As a 24 year old public relations graduate I completely empathised with the main character - a lawyer stuck in a job he hates- in fact, my heart bled for him. I wanted to run off in......more

Goodreads review by Vergast on April 08, 2009

This was my first Tom Holt book, follow ups included a quick read i cant find here but was awesome in its portrayal of a man creeping along a tunnel hunting a monster. Of course this lead me to the second proper book of his i have which is 'you dont have to be evil to work here but it helps' which c......more

Goodreads review by Soho_Black on February 06, 2015

I've tended to avoid comic fantasy in recent years. Part of the reason for this is that no matter how hard I've tried, I've always failed to find anything that could match up to Pratchett and Gaiman's "Good Omens" for comedy value. I tried Matthew Thomas' "Before and After", which turned out to be a......more

Goodreads review by Annette on June 11, 2009

I read this book over several week's time in my favorite local bookstore - the one with lots of comfy seating encouraging you to try before you buy - before finally purchasing it when the new baby made it clear that reading for more than 5 minutes at a stretch in a public place was going to be prett......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on April 02, 2015

Brilliant. Utterly brilliant. I work at a law firm and that made this book even more laugh out loud funny than it already is. My boss borrowed it and never wanted to give it back, he loved it so much. Once again, Tom Holt manages to take the most ordinary, boring job and turn it into something hilar......more