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‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat? ‘If only she could speak,’ continued the actress. ‘I’m sure she’d have such wisdom to share.’ And so the seed was...

What makes you purr? Of all the questions in the world, this is the most important. It is also the great leveler. Because no matter whether you are a playful kitten or a sedentary senior, a scrawny alley Tom or a sleek-coated uptown girl, whatever your circumstances, you just want to be happy...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘This is a searing and incredibly important book, storytelling at its best’ Donal Ryan ‘A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise I don’t know how you’ve made it this...

Als Katzenmama Mimí, der kleine Taro und seine vier Geschwister ganz unvermittelt in Norikos Leben treten, weiß sie noch nicht, dass mit der Katzenfamilie auch das Glück in ihr Haus einzieht. Denn die Kunst der Achtsamkeit und unsere tiefe Sehnsucht nach Begegnungen, die von Liebe geprägt sind, lässt sich nirgends besser erfahren als im Umgang mit den schnurrenden Persönlichkeiten.

We all know someone like them: women whose lives revolve around their cats. Here Donald Davis paints verbal portraits of two very different women in his life who shared a fiercely unshakable sense of priorities. It was simply understood that the cats came first, and once you accepted that, everything else made perfect sense. Employing his trademark Carolina drawl, droll wit, and sharp observations, Davis is in top form here as he pays homage to these two remarkable women and their devotion to their feline families.

The Almost True Memoirs of a Quirky Cat Burglar follows the adventures of Henry Sears O'Connor, a quick-witted and resourceful protagonist, and his accomplice, Antonio Rossi, during the Great Depression era. Henry, a skilled cat burglar teams up with Antonio, a handsome Italian getaway man, to pull off daring heists targeting the wealthy elite in upstate New York.

This is my memoirs, my family history, and Glasgow history. A love story, a modern fairy tale, a rock and roll story. Most of all, this is my story, my friends from Possilpark and Drumchapel look at me. I am a star.

Dog not in Charge was written using British English with a Scottish flavour. There are spelling differences between British English and the English as written and spoken in other parts of our wonderful, diverse world. There are also spelling differences between Human, Dog, and Cat English. Where Dog and Cat English predominate, cat won the argument.