Cat Detective

How much do cat owners really know about their feline friends? Do our pampered pets truly want all that food and affection or is that insistent miaow trying to communicate something more complex? Many cats and their owners co-exist in an atmosphere of polite misunderstanding, with each party blissfully unaware of the wishes of the other. The cat 'says' one thing and the owner hears another, but ..

Gilles Bachelet's cat behaves like any normal cat; sleeping, eating, getting in the way, making a mess, but in this funny picture book he happens to be...a very large elephant. It is easy to understand and provides useful illustrations for the children, seeing Bachelet's elephant/cat acting just like their own cats.

The turtles in London Zoo become the mutual obsession of two lonely strangers who dream of setting free the turtles and themselves. Detail by detail their diaries record a world in which thought leads to action and action brings William G. and Neaera H. to their own open sea.

In a not-so-distant future when lions are extinct Jachin-Boaz, a middle-aged mapmaker, leaves home with the wonderful map that was to tell his son where to find everything. In the ruins of a palace at Nineveh, his son Boaz-Jachin finds the wall-carving of a great lion dying on the spear of an ancient king.

Once tough, witty and self-reliant, Grandma is now increasingly unable to look after herself. She has always put her menfolk first, always been the carer, but now her family must care for her. They are filled with love and good intention. But as Grandma gradually loses herself and the strain within the family soon begins to show, is love enough?

It's the dark side that most cat owners never see. The side that wouldn't be caught dead purring. Here, in colour, in all their infamy, are hundreds of trouble makers and moggy delinquents. They're bad cats, with bad intentions and bad attitude. So the next time your cat misses the litter tray, ask yourself - was it really an accident?

Maggie O'Farrell is a consistent Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Her novels are word of mouth phenomena: AFTER YOU'D GONE has now sold 300,000 copies, and there are three quarters of a million Maggie O'Farrell novels in print.

From the author of 'THE HIDDEN LIFE OF DOGS' comes 'The Secret Life of Cats'.

A new edition of Catwatching , in which the text is accompanied by colour photographs of cats of every variety, each illustrating the behaviour described by the author. Morris answers 60 questions such as: why does a cat purr; and why are cats attracted to people who don't like them?

Every single cat carries an inheritance of amazing sensory capacities, vocal utterances, body language and territorial displays. 'What does a cat signal with its ears?' 'Why does your cat tear at the fabric of your chair?' Addressing these questions, this work gives an insight into the nature of your cat.