My kinda cats – II
Generally speaking, I'm not a big cat fan, preferring dogs all round. However, although I can be dismissive of the...
Caique-dwelling tom
Leigh Fermor's Mani has a fine selection of memorable cats. I liked this description of the limited gene pools of...
Soulless sparkles
I liked this simile, likening a woman's eyes to those of a cat. Â
She'd got black...
My kinda cat – III
This is one memorable cat. Patrick Leigh Fermor had chance to observe the same big tom-cat every night in Athens...
Like a kitten
This novel is to a great extent about the relationship between brother and sister Maggie and Tom Tulliver. She loves...
Slit-pupilled eyes
The Countess lives in a sea of white cats who hang upon her every word, here looking up at her...
A clowder of cats
The spell check keeps trying to change 'clowder' to 'chowder', which I don't think anyone would want made of cats.
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Collective contentment
Among the most cherished beings in Mervyn Peake's sprawling, imaginative Gormenghast, are the teeming masses of white cats belonging to...
My kinda cats I
This short description of the street cats of Istanbul pullulates with lively triologisms. If you enjoy these chaps, then see...
Fine feline quotes
Adding another in our series of themed selections, we have purrduced a page of illustrated quotations celebrating...
Alert to danger
This made me laugh out loud when reading Simon Winder's Danubia late one night. Parents ever-so-delicately trying to inveigle their...
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