The Lunar Cats

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By the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Cat Out of Hell, a nail-biting tale of good versus evil involving one man, his dog and a group of 18th-century amateur scientific pioneers who just happen to be cats. By the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Cat Out of Hell, a nail-biting tale of good versus evil involving one man, his dog and a group of 18th-century amateur scientific pioneers who just happen to be cats. When you are an inoffensive retired librarian with bitter personal experience of Evil Talking Cats, do you rescue a kitten from the cold on a December night? Do you follow up news items about cats digging in graveyards? Do you inquire into long-ago cats who voyaged around the world with Captain Cook? Well, yes. If you are Alec Charlesworth that is precisely what you do - with unexpected and terrifying consequences ...

Bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Cat Out of Hell, Lynne Truss is a journalist, arts and book reviewer, sports columnist and a regular broadcaster for BBC's Radio 4. She's had two plays performed at the Edinburgh Festival, including 'Hell's Bells' in 2012. Her latest book, Cat Out of Hell, published in 2014, was her fourth novel and the first in over ten years. The Lunar Cats will be her fifth.

'Rollicking, ridiculous and hilarious novel by one of Britain's funniest writers.' * Saga Magazine * There aren't many comic horror stories more enjoyable than this - and even fewer where the main characters are cats! * Readers Digest *