Kel didn't mean to steal Caspian's bull terrier, Brut. He just meant to borrow him for the weekend. But Brut disappears, and Caspian's efforts to get him back lead him into a dangerous and sinister world that even his parents are too frightened to face. Answers to Brut was named an Honour Book in the 1989 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, Younger Readers, and won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature in the 1988 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.