by NRB | 25 Nov 2021 | Fiction |
Japanese author Sosuke Natsukawa’s second novel brings together a cat and a bookshop, and contains more than its slim volume suggests. The Cat Who Saved Books is like a TARDIS. It has simple language and is only 224 pages, yet in many ways it is ‘bigger on the...
by NRB | 4 Nov 2021 | Non-fiction |
Novelist Bohumil Hrabal’s memoir explores the roots of cruelty by examining the author’s relationship with his many cats. Published in Czech in 1986, novelist Bohumil Hrabal’s non-fiction work All My Cats is now available in English, translated by Paul...
by NRB | 9 Aug 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
For I will consider my cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God … Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno The 18th-century ‘mad poet’ Christopher Smart is not the only writer to have celebrated a cat. Raymond...
by NRB | 31 May 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
There were no pets when I was growing up. My parents deflected the pleas from my sister and myself for a dog or a cat by saying that children grew too attached to pets and were upset when they died. It was typical of their attitude of avoiding all the realities of...
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