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Damp Squids & Card Sharks (2023)

After a gap of sixteen years, the world was clamouring for another book by Robert Anwood. Or I was, anyway!

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Emus Can’t Walk Backwards (2007)

The follow-up to Bears Can’t Run Downhill.

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Bears Can’t Run Downhill (2006)

The main edition of my first book.

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Kaikki jääkarhut ovat vasenkätisiä (2007)

The Finnish edition of Bears Can’t Run Downhill, published by Atena. Translated by Jyrki Liikka and Tiina Lamminen. (I’m not sure why it required two translators; a tight deadline may have been involved…)

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Björnar kan inte springa i nedförsbacke (2007)

The Swedish edition of Bears Can’t Run Downhill, published by Bra Böcker. Translated by Lars Olov Skeppholm.

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The Second World War Began in New Zealand (2006)

A version of Bears Can’t Run Downhill adapted especially for New Zealand, with contributions by Richard Wolfe.

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The World According to the Man in the Pub (2006)

An exclusive paperback edition of Bears Can’t Run Downhill which was only available in Marks & Spencer. No, really: Marks & Spencer.

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The World According to the Man in the Pub 2 (2007)

Marks & Spencer loved the first one so much that the following year they issued an exclusive edition of Emus Can’t Walk Backwards, again with a unique title and in paperback format.

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