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What the Dog Saw

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141044804

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 315g

  • RRP: £10.99

What the Dog Saw

  • And Other Adventures

In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world.

'Masterpieces in the art of the essay' Steven Pinker, The New York Times

'Beautiful ... brings together the writing that made Gladwell the extraordinary figure he is today ... one of the most imaginative non-fiction writers of his generation' Ian Sample, Guardian

'Chatty, perceptive, impish and amiable ... Comes exuberantly close to ... what goes on inside other people's heads' Philip Womack, Daily Telegraph

'Gladwell makes the world seem fresh and exciting again' Evening Standard

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141044804

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 315g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • Gladwell's range is impressive and his writing never less than engaging

    FT

  • The pieces form a dazzling record of Gladwell's art

    Guardian

  • Make your social commentary sparkle with Malcolm Gladwell's latest

    Sunday Times

  • He's able to examine what look like the most mundane aspects of our daily lives and to reveal the cleverness - and the strangeness - within

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Vibrant, colourful and packed with surprises

    Guardian

  • Gladwell soars high

    Spectator

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About the Author

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and co-founder of the audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.

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From Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers to David Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, these books offer valuable insights into the complex workings of the human mind... including your own.
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Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers, 25th - 28th November 2019
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Podcasts

Underdogs feat. Malcolm Gladwell, Matthew Frank and Elizabeth Fremantle

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