the literary cat

  DJANGO REINHARDT, THE LITERARY CAT, IS DEAD. He took his last breath at 5.45pm on 19 June 2015 in a tiny veterinary surgery in the West Country, falling asleep with my hand stroking his head, much as he had done so many times in our years together. He barreled his way into my life … Continue readings →

  Once you have kept a Siamese cat you would never have any other kind. They make wonderful pets and are so intelligent they follow you around like little dogs.”   Perhaps a tiny bit of stretch, Vivien Leigh, while not a writer herself per se, is so completely embedded in the public psyche as … Continue readings →

Tags : cat, Great Cats, Laurence Olivier, New Boy, Poo Harris, Siamese, Tissy, Vivien Leigh

  When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”   WE’VE ALREADY WAXED LYRICAL about Hemingway’s love of cats and he is but one of many such writers and celebrities enamoured of these great creatures. Perhaps the most surprising discovery, at least for me, was Mark Twain. I knew … Continue readings →

Tags : Bambino, Cats, Mark Twain

  The story of Django Reinhardt, rising music star, his friend Jessie and Hungarian cousin Lalo-Max, as they try to escape Django’s stalker, the mad psycho slasher and The Midwich Cuckoos, aided by bodyguard John Barry and his companion, Jerry Jerry. Can they all survive? Or will Django Reinhart really be The Last Cat Standing? … Continue readings →

  “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” –Hemingway on cats   Ernest Hemingway, along with TS Eliot, Edward Gorey, Mark Twain, Michel de Montaigne, Allan Ginsberg, Jorge Luis Borges, Francoise Sagan, Albert Camus, Paul Bowles, Raymond Chandler, Vivien Leigh, … Continue readings →