Poetry publishers Blackheath Books – 3:AM‘s Publisher of the Year 2009 – venture into the world of novels with Vic Templar’s Taking Candy From A Dog:
Stories and episodes from the life of a boy are threaded together by the musings of a threadbare sock monkey called Luke. The monkey haunts (or taunts?) the man the boy has become. Tales of football, picnics, cats, holidays, rabies, ghosts, skeletons, George Best, Father Christmas, punk rock, moth rescue, starling execution, ant holocaust, emu puppets and being winked at by strangers.
