Query: animal, but not children's, books about the UK
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Rats (novel)
Kraken (novel)
Tarka the Otter
The Plague Dogs
A Kestrel for a Knave
Lair (novel)
The Steam House
The Lime Twig
Sirius (novel)
Carnosaur (novel)
Craig of the Welsh Hills
Dead Cert (novel)
Evidence from documents: The Rats (novel): Linking the film to childhood memories he had of rats in London's East End.
Tarka the Otter: '''''Tarka the Otter''': His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers'' is a novel by Henry Williamson, first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. It won the Hawthornden Prize in 1928, and has never been out of print since its first publication.
The Plague Dogs: animal,: This book tells of the escape of two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, from a government research station in the Lake District in England, where they had been horribly mistreated.
but not children's,: the third novel by Richard Adams, author of ''Watership Down'', about the friendship of two dogs that escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media
not children's: A Jewish businessman who organizes a hunt for the dogs. It is implied he is a Holocaust survivor, and suffers from frequent bouts of depression. He encounters Snitter by himself during the hunt, and although he prepares to shoot him, he notices the surgical scar on the dog's head and is moved to tears because it is implied that it reminds him of the medical experiments conducted at Auschwitz. Setting his gun aside, he tries to get Snitter to come get into his car. But when Snitter excitedly jumps up into his arms, his toe catches the trigger of Ephraim's shotgun. Because Ephraim had taken the safety catch off upon seeing Snitter, and forgotten to put it back on when setting the weapon aside, Snitter's toe catching the trigger causes the gun to off in Ephraim's face, killing him instantly. Snitter is traumatized by the incident, and Ephraim's death catches the attention of the media, who run with the story of the "dog who shot a man."
books about the UK: the actual location of "ARSE" (an acronym for Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental, and British slang for buttocks) was based on the remote hill farm of Lawson Park, now run as an artist residence by the contemporary art organisation Grizedale Arts.
animal, but not children's: '''''The Plague Dogs''''' is the third novel by Richard Adams, author of ''Watership Down'', about the friendship of two dogs that escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media. It was first published in 1977,
A Kestrel for a Knave: but not children's,: Billy's father finds that his wife has been having an affair with Billy's 'Uncle Mick'. Billy's father punches Mick and leaves the house. After the flashback has ended, Billy returns home, buries the kestrel and goes to bed.


The story is set in only one day, apart from the flashback passages.
animal,: the book follows Billy Casper, a young working-class boy troubled at home and at school, who finds and trains a kestrel whom he names "Kes".
books about the UK: s a novel by English author Barry Hines, published in 1968. Set in an unspecified mining area in Northern England,
Lair (novel): Each book charts the spread of a mutant breed of carnivorous rat which attacks humans in groups, rips them apart, and devours them.
The Steam House: '''''The Steam House''''' () is an 1880 Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant.
The Lime Twig: animal, but not children's, books about the UK: an experimental novel by American writer John Hawkes.
In England after World War II, a sedate, bored lower-class couple—Michael and Margaret Banks—are lured into fronting a racehorse scheme.
animal, but not children's: Hawkes underscores the theme of entrapment imagistically, with fleeting references to a sparrow attacked by a hive of bees, a wasp trapped between panes of glass, and so on. The title of the novel itself refers to the old practice of catching birds by spreading lime on a twig, the master trope of the narrative.
Sirius (novel): animal, but not children's,: a 1944 science fiction novel by the British philosopher and author Olaf Stapledon, whose title character is a dog named Sirius with humanlike intelligence. A sense of existential questioning suffuses the book, as the author delves into aspects of Sirius's psyche.
books about the UK: Sirius is raised by scientist Thomas Trelone in North Wales, near Trawsfynydd. Thomas embarks on a program of using steroids and other chemicals to rapidly develop cognitive power of dogs, resulting in super sheep dogs
Carnosaur (novel): books about the UK: Set in a rural village near Cambridgeshire, England, the novel opens at a chicken farm which is attacked one night by a mysterious creature, leaving both the farmer and his wife dead.
animal, but not children's,: (1984) is a horror novel written by Australian author John Brosnan, under the pseudonym of Harry Adam Knight
animal,: From there, Pascal enters the zoo, only to discover that it's filled with dinosaurs.
Craig of the Welsh Hills: The novel follows the adventures of Craig, a champion border collie herding dog, who escapes into the Welsh hills following a car accident and becomes a sheep-killer and the efforts of his owner to recapture him.
Dead Cert (novel): The title is a shortened form of "It's a dead certainty," in this case a play on words referring to the fact that the steeplechase horse Admiral should have won, but his jockey died.