"Dogs have owners, cats have staff." Gone are the days when your cat could expect to prowl the streets at night and come home to a bowl of tinned food. Today's cat is a pampered feline surrounded by luxury products. The author wants her cat, Sushi, to feel she is queen of the palace, kindly entertaining her human as a guest. After traumatic events such as getting her teeth cleaned, Sushi always has a therapy session with the cat psychologist, sometimes receiving medication for depression, though this has led in the past to a 12-paw detox programme. Sushi has her own diamond tiara and a pink rhinestone collar, as well as a number of outfits for special occasions. This big and lavishly illustrated book shows how your cat can be like Sushi, starting with "Fashion and Accessories" in which a range of beautiful felines show off their luxury lifestyle. A long-haired white cat models a gold lame jacket, a hairless Sphinx has a heavy silver collar while another simply wears pearls. A handmade necklace by renowned artisan Dorothy Bower is matched by a Swarovski crystal tiara perched on the head of a cross-looking Persian. A range of boutique toys for cats is showcased here, with mobiles and mazes being pursued by an adorable blue-eyed Siamese. Architecture and Interiors features a top-end range of chairs and sofas made from the finest quality fabrics and fur in styles ranging from Louis Quatorze to Frank Lloyd Wright. When it comes to dining, cats are notoriously fussy, and the range of bowls here includes a signature folding Goyard travelling bowl. A section on Beauty and Wellness features shampooing, acupuncture and cat perfume. 220 pp, colour photos throughout, text in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian. Sources given for featured products. HUGE, 25.4 x 3.18 x 32.39 cm.
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Social media star, agony aunt, yoga teacher, curious cat Zelda knows how to live life curiously. 'I am always listening to the radio in the kitchen - not by choice, mind you. Over time, I have notice that cats are not fairly represented in songs?. 14 really daft examples follow like: 'If you liked it then you should have put a string on it' by Meowncé. Zelda confides in her diary: 'I met a handsome cat tonight... he was a lot cleaner than ShabbyTabby and he had a nice meow. I had suggested going somewhere casual for a couple of water bowls, but he insisted on The Wheely Bin. He clearly wanted to impress me...' and popsicles and garden hopping and restaurant dining and following the red dot but losing her behind the magazine rack, squirrels and houseflies and fantastic zany illustrations with cartoon additions and captions like 'Just lost my job as a PE teacher. My pupils got too big' with a huge-eyed picture of lucky black cat Zelda with her white bib from her website plentyoffish.com. Find out how she communicates with furniture and how she handles humans, sniffing the lampshade, getting into the sock drawer just before it closes and an entire lifestyle of purrvilege. All great fun, 192 pages, softback, utterly enchanting colour illus. and photo montage illus.

Finely drawn sketches, portraits and fantasies by one of the major theatre and opera, stage and costume designers of the 20th century, many of Lila De Nobili's colour artworks have never been previously published before this publication. Parisian cats have been celebrated by painters, writers and chansonniers since the 19th century when Steinlein created the poster for the cabaret Le Chat Noir. An important place among these artists is occupied by Lila De Nobili who moved to the French capital in 1945 and never left the 7th Arrondissement, its quintessential neighbourhood. She painted and designed stage sets for the Scala in Milan, the Opéra in Paris, Covent Garden in London and was sought by the most famous directors. She designed costumes for Maria Callas, Edith Piaf, Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman. Just after the events of May 1968, she devoted herself exclusively to painting and adopted her first cat Ulysse and the feline family soon grew. She never tired of sketching and drawing them, and painting them in watercolour and most of these intimate works full of insight and subtlety were gifted to a friend, herself a cat lover and thanks to this collection, now published in book form. Also included are fantasies and stories including Dominique, affectionate cards featuring her cats Mitzi and Rouki, a tabby and a pale ginger. Some of the cats are dressed as can-can dancers or Siamese cats as Pierrot, costume sketches for Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty at Covent Garden, but best of all are the beautifully observed small cats looking curiously or snuggled under the covers inside a cardboard box and kittens looking for a home. Exquisitely coloured renderings, 144 landscape pages measuring 21.6 x 16.5cm.
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A smiling white whippet wearing a Tudor ruff and lace collar graces the front cover of these artistically refined portraits of dogs which look like Old Masters. In humorous, almost philosophical texts, Tein Lucasson gives each of his animal protagonists an unmistakeable character, from the Labrador to the Pug, the Spaniel to the Dalmatian dressed as Wellington, the little Italian Greyhound with her big doe eyes dressed as Greta Garbo with a shy, all-knowing look, in full Tudor costume with human hands, slim and always happy, "Maisie has been widowed four times and lives on bottled grape juice to keep herself slim and happy (in a spaced-out way)". With text in English, German and Italian on the facing pages opposite the full page colour portraits of these anthropomorphised mix of dogs of many breeds, poodles and terriers and pugs and mongrel in a sailor suit, our favourite must be Olive, standing upright as a pensive young bride she is another white whippet. Truly a dog lover, this artist is rarely seen in Great Britain and you will either find this icky or adore his 88 quirky, humorous portraits by the talented graphic designer and digital photographer. A quality teNeues publication, 192 pages, 22.23 x 28.7cm. All in colour.
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Imagine your cat dressed as Elvis with a wild gleam in his eye and pulsating hips, or your prim and proper guinea pig kitted out as our dear late Queen, with a slightly disapproving stare and a bit of a twinkle. The artworks blend comic-con and the global celebrity phenomenon with our fascination with anthropomorphising pets. All your pet fantasies come true in this bewitching volume, where your pets "live their best lives" through the medium of fantasy. Michael Jackson in his trademark frogged jacket regards us mournfully in the face of an uncanny canine lookalike, while David Bowie as a Zigzaggy Starman looks out of the frame with his customary detachment. Ozzie Osbourne in purple specs and Gothic gear is perfectly captured by a jowly Labrador. From the world of film, Captain Jack Sparrow is a spiky black feline with high boots and a swagger, Miss Piggy has a personalised pink handbag and red bow, while a guinea pig as Count Dracula sports impressive prosthetic teeth - or are they actually his own? Sherlock Holmes and Poirot are easily identifiable by the deerstalker and moustache, the yellow eyes of Sally Bowles look out from beneath her trademark hat, and a white feline with spectacular false eyelashes makes a fabulous Marilyn, contrasting with the Blues Brothers glowering at the reader on a nearby page. Clint Eastwood's narrowed eyes beneath the battered brown hat convey the swashbuckling hero of dozens of westerns, Del Boy is unmistakeable under the check cap, Tommy Cooper has his fez, and we go back to our guinea pig friend for Dame Edna Everage with sparkly flyway specs, purple hair and a dress encrusted with bling. World leaders include the Pope, Churchill, Mother Teresa and Donald Trump. No page numbers, but about 80 fantastically costumed pets. 25 x 32cm. Text in English, French and German.
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"He whom Pussy Po detains a captive in her silken chains, must curb the furious first of prey, Nor rend the warbler from his spray! Nor let his wild, ungenerous rage An unprotected foe engage. O, should cat of Darwin prove foe to pity, foe to love!" The grandfather to Charles Darwin wrote to his biographer, the poet Anna Seward in these veiled terms - the cats themselves escaped with their reputations unscathed. T.S. Eliot types a rhyming birthday party invitation to all Jellicle Cats for his four-year-old godson. Nikola Tesla exalts on the finest of all cats in the world. Jack Kerouac's mother grieves at the death of the family cat. This irresistible volume from the compiler of the bestselling series includes affectionate missives about our feline companions from Charles Dickens, Raymond Chandler, Anne Frank, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon writing to Walter Matthau, Edward Lear, Robert Southey, and many more - 27 letters capturing the profound delight of having or observing a cat. The letters are as revealing of the writers as they are of their beloved felines. 128 page paperback with rough-cut edges. Reminder mark

Our favourite cats and dogs all need a special friend they can batter to bits, and the brilliant concept for this volume is to photograph a collection of dismembered toys and match some of them with a commentary from their owners - the savage canines and felines who show their love by inflicting maximum injury. An aggrieved black and white toy glares out of the picture and tells the story of how he was rescued from a plastic bin in an all-night mart by none other than his hero, Frank Sinatra himself. Frank came in with his girlfriend for a bottle of Jack Daniels and in no time at all our furry friend was in the limo heading for the concert. But he never got to hear his idol sing, because the inebriated Frank seized him and started to chew on his fur, and the bodyguard threw him out of the car. A cute legless bear warns "Never get divorced in California". When Johnny ran off with Lila to Vegas, everything went fine at first and their bear Lucky went everywhere with them. When Lila got her break in a reality show, though, Johnny was unable to handle the disparity and took it out on the bear, insisting the injuries had been inflicted by their dog, though as the bear got to stay with the now-rich partner he wasn't complaining too much. Polyphemus, a melancholy long-eared toy with a gaping hole where his eyes should be, laments the fact that his master Odysseus, the author of his wound, gets star billing from literary types like Homer or James Joyce. Rabbits, gonks, a battered Ernie from Sesame Street all lament their fates. No page numbers, 130 colour photos. Softback.
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Pussweek is a publication written by cats for cats and now in book form, from scandalous pawparazzi pics to revealing litter quizzes, hairy exposés to tell-tail interviews, and tips and tricks on dealing with your annoying human, you will finally find the full feline empowerment lies within you. The letters pages are simply hilarious like finding a safe place to dump your uncomfortable load with Ollie. The 'Is that what you're wearing?' face tortures Geraldo's human and makes her feel insecure every time she gets dressed. Beatrice sends a picture of her nipple to Ollie! There are cats on toilet bowls, sheeting (peering out from under the bed sheet), climbing into handbags and the Top 20 Most Satisfying Things to Push off the Table, like books, a vase of flowers and cutlery, all pictured and with hilarious captions. Then there is the vacuum cleaner, playtime and biting: 'Out of nowhere he calls me Fatty and then he just started grabbing at my belly...' and what to do if your human is a creeper and has hundreds of photos of you. They tell you all their problems (and expect you to care). Do you have a catnip problem? Get up to scratch with the curtain call and the rights and wrongs of ascending a net curtain, clawing things at home, even getting your nails painted; pretending you eat the medicine popped into your food then spitting it out on their pillow, and hiding under beds and sofas, spotting rolling playfully with the pet dog. Pussweek is printed with the highest quality material so you can chew on it or pee on it if your like! 152pp, colour photos of cats as we have never seen them before. Highly recommended to our cat loving readers with a good sense of humour. Softback.

'A cat needs a name that's peculiar and more dignified, else how can he keep his tail perpendicular, or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?' Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in Missouri in 1888 and came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. 'The Naming of Cats' features in Eliot's much celebrated collection of poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (code 91666), which was written for his godchildren. The cats including Macavity, Mistoffelees and Skimbleshanks inspired one of the most successful musicals of all time. 'First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey. There are fancier names... such as Plato, Admetus, Elektra, Demeter. The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it's just one of your holiday games.' A fabulous introduction for children, illustrated in colour by Arthur Robins. Small square Faber publication.

A real life fur cop hunts for the lost cat Mystic Mog, barks up the wrong tree, and tells many waggy tales of cat-astrophe and Sherlock Bones but manages to stay pawsitive in his search for lost pets. That's enough of the puns! Tom Watkins is a former police officer turned true-life pet detective and here is his story of 20 years of missing pets, their owners and adventures as Tom's team of pet investigators zip up their high visibility jackets and comb the local area village by village on their limited manpower and resources. One is the case of the Shetland sheepdog Spencer, missing for 12 hours. Tom?s team of eight set to work. From recording the owner's voice and luring cats from their hiding places, to organising a fly-over and a Crimewatch-style reconstruction of the dog-snatching of Toby the terrier, where an unsuspecting young man who came to the rescue hands over little Toby through the car window of a dog thief. Tom and his team will do whatever it takes to get the nation's pets home, safe and sound to their agonisingly worried owners. 279pp, colour photos.