The beautifully illustrated and irrestible tale of the 'Lonely Dog' - an orphan hound growing up in Alveridgea, where cats and dogs live alongside each other, but on very different sides of the tracks.

Arthur Snout is found abandoned as a houndling on the steps of the Houndside orphanage. Small, unhoundish and a loner, he is bullied by the other orphan houndlings because he is 'all snout and ears', and their nickname 'Lonely' soon sticks. But although Lonely doesn't look very special, he has a special gift, a gift for music that crosses boundaries, styles - even species - one that might finally bring harmony to Alveridgea. On one darkling night on Revellers Green, Lonely hears his first notes of the houndskiffle and working-hound blues and senses deep down that his destiny is written in their sweet mournful melodies ...

World Release - July 2012

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Ivan Clarke is a landscape painter and fine artist living in Queenstown, New Zealand. Stu Duval is a professional storyteller and author, living also in New Zealand. The two have known each other since childhood. Alveridgea: The Legend of the Lonely Dog was accidentally inspired by Ivan's pet dachshund Arthur Snout.