And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the US Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath. In the siege of Sarajevo a bear starving to death tells a fairytale. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. Full Title: Only the Animals When Written: Unknown Where Written: Sydney, Australia When Published: 2015 Literary Period: Contemporary Genre: Short Story Collection Setting: Various warzones around the world Antagonist: War, Cruelty, Humans Point of View: First Person and Third Person Extra Credit for Only the Animals Camels. In Nazi Germany a dog seeks enlightenment. In a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. Only this s mine Thanks to the wonderful AffirmPress team & to Ceridwen Dovey + Michelle Tom mtomwriter for amazing endorsements You can pre-order The Year My Family Unravelled now from your local bookshop or online via ReadingsBooks.

Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. RT CynthiaDNelson: Head in a book, as usual. Contents: The bones : Soul of camel died 1892, Australia - Pigeons, a pony, the tomcat and I : Soul of cat died 1915, France - Red Peter's little lady : Soul of chimpanzee died 1917, Germany - Hundstage : Soul of dog died 1941, Poland - Somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me : Soul of mussel died 1941, United States of America - Plautus : a memoir of my years on earth and last days in space : Soul of tortoise died 1968, space - I, the elephant, wrote this : Soul of elephant died 1987, Mozambique - Telling fairytales : Soul of bear died 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina - A letter to Sylvia Plath : Soul of dolphin died 2003, Iraq - Psittacophile : Soul of parrot died 2006, Lebanon

Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey