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Talk to the Tail: Adventures in Cat Ownership and Beyond

10 best books like Talk to the Tail: Adventures in Cat Ownership and Beyond (Tom Cox): The Cat Who Came in from the Cold, Confessions from Correspondentland: The Dangers and Delights of Life as a Foreign Correspondent, Cats In The Belfry, You Choose, Casper the Commuting Cat: The True Story of the Cat who Rode the Bus and Stole our Hearts, After Cleo, Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II, Cat People, I Left My Tent in San Francisco, Paw Tracks in the Moonlight

The Cat Who Came in from the Cold
AuthorDeric Longden
ISBN0552156191
The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there was an unspoken agreement that he had found his real...
Confessions from Correspondentland: The Dangers and Delights of Life as a Foreign Correspondent
AuthorNick Bryant
ISBN1851689338
Since making his journalistic debut breaking into Piers Morgan’s office, BBC foreign correspondent Nick Bryant has rattled Donald Rumsfeld, had tea with President Karzai, slept through 9/11, and gotten a free lunch out of the Tamil Tigers. Now casting a sideways glance at his own profession, Nick...
Cats In The Belfry
AuthorDoreen Tovey
ISBN1840244526
It wasn't, we discovered as the months went by, that Sugieh was particularly wicked. It was just that she was a Siamese. Animal lovers Doreen Tovey and her husband Charles acquire their first Siamese kitten to rid themselves of an invasion of mice, although they worry about the cat attacking the birds....
You Choose
AuthorPippa Goodhart
ISBN0552547085
This book is an interesting and fun way to introduce the concept of choice to children in the early years (more specifically aged 4-5 years old) as each page has a different question to explore i.e. what would you eat, and provides a variety of choices that the children can choose from. This allows for a...
Casper the Commuting Cat: The True Story of the Cat who Rode the Bus and Stole our Hearts
AuthorSusan Finden
ISBN0857200089
Casper became a national celebrity when newspapers ran the story of the amazing cat that regularly took the No. 3 bus on journeys around his home town, Plymouth, in Devon. While his devoted owner Sue Finden had wondered where her elusive pet was disappearing to each day, Casper was brightening the lives...
After Cleo
AuthorHelen Brown
ISBN1742695574
The story of how a cat called Cleo healed a family in mourning was one of my favorite novels of last year. I was quite excited when i discovered author Helen Brown was bringing out a new book featuring another feline Jonah and i can now say the excitment was justified as After Cleo is another great read. Set...
Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II
AuthorJacky Hyams
ISBN1782194428
They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, mothers, and teenage girls, all "doing their bit" for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets, and war machines that would ensure victory for Britain. It was dangerous, dirty,...
Cat People
AuthorMichael Korda
ISBN0060756632
With characteristic wit, self–effacing charm and sheer, exuberant love of a good cat story, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda and his wife Margaret Korda recount their lives as "cat people," beginning with Margaret's passion for cats (and Michael's reluctant mid–life transformation...
I Left My Tent in San Francisco
AuthorEmma Kennedy
ISBN0091935954
It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's.

Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape...
Paw Tracks in the Moonlight
AuthorDenis O'Connor
ISBN1849011192
The heart-warming story of one man and his cat

When Denis O'Connor rescues a three-week-old kitten from certain death during a snowstorm, little does he know how this tiny creature will change his life forever. Against all odds the kitten - who he names Toby Jug - survives and forms an unusually...
A Young Man's Passage
AuthorJulian Clary
ISBN0091908728
This is Julian Clary's story, in his own words - the tale of an awkward schoolboy who became a huge worldwide success on stage and screen.

After a sheltered suburban upbringing, Julian was sent to St Benedict's, where beatings from 'holy' men gave him some brutal life lessons, and other 'unholy'...
Making the Cat Laugh
AuthorLynne Truss
ISBN1861977549
I read Lynne's Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, and really enjoyed it, so, I was happy to try another of her nonfiction efforts. Unfortunately, it did not impress. It is a book constructed from columns she has written for various publications. They seem to centre...
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England
AuthorJanina Ramírez
ISBN0753550652
Skulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of life in Anglo-Saxon England. Taking them from their heavenly status to the human level, Oxford art historian and BBC presenter Dr Janina Ramirez explores the real lives...
Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero
AuthorAileen Orr
ISBN1841588458
This is the inspiring true story of one of the Second World War’s most unusual combatants—a 500-pound cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear. Originally adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army in Iran, Wojtek soon took on a more practical role, carrying heavy mortar rounds for the troops...
Paperboy
AuthorChristopher Fowler
ISBN0385615574
Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a story. Caught between an ever-sensible but exhausted...
The School Inspector Calls!
AuthorGervase Phinn
ISBN1444706055
Summer has arrived in Barton-in-the-Dale, and as a new term begins at the little primary school, it's not just the warm weather that's getting people hot under the collar. Meetings with the teachers from Urebank School to discuss the merger are producing more than a few fireworks, a disruptive new pupil...
Get Your Sh!t Together
AuthorRuth Field
The B!tch is back... and she's brought The Grit Doctor along for the ride.

What's in your handbag? To-do lists scrawled on the back of receipts? An unpaid bill? Half a chocolate bar, covered in fluff? Is your handbag a metaphor for the rest of your life? Has becoming a capable, poised grown-up...
March, Women, March
AuthorLucinda Hawksley
March, Women, March explores the women's movement in Britain, from the Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who was dragged under King George V's horse during the...
An Urgent Message of Wowness
AuthorKaren McCombie
ISBN0439951143
Somebody stop the mayhem. Heather thinks everyone in her family comes from Planet Perfect. Everyone except her, that is. Then dad drops a bombshell, and the world turns upside down...Life's become surprising, exciting and just a little bit mad - but is this topsy-turvy new family somewhere Heather...
Still Standing: The Savage Years
AuthorPaul O'Grady
ISBN0593069390
Paul O'Grady shot to fame via his brilliant comic creation, the blonde bombsite Lily Savage. In the first two parts of his bestselling and critically acclaimed autobiography, Paul took us through his childhood in Birkenhead to his first, teetering steps on stage. Now, in Still Standing, for the first...
Get Your Act Together: 7-Day Get-Organized Program For The Overworked, Overbooked, and Overwhelmed, A
AuthorPam Young
ISBN0060969911
Hmm why did I get this? Well as some of you may know I have depression one of my chief aids in recovering from this is the Flylady site and mailing list.. Every day she tells me to get up. to shine my sink. clean my toilet wash my clothes etc trust me without her I would be in the next series of house from Hell. The...
My Outdoor Life
AuthorRay Mears
ISBN1444778234
Ray Mears is a household name through his television series Tracks, World of Survival, Bushcraft Survival, The Real Heroes of Telemark and many more. He is a private individual who shuns publicity whenever possible and would prefer to let his many skills tell their own tale - until now.

In MY...
Unbelievable: From My Childhood Dreams To Winning Olympic Gold
AuthorJessica Ennis
ISBN1444768603
On 4 August 2012 Jessica Ennis kicked off what some described as the greatest night in British sporting history. For her it was the end of a long, winding, and sometimes harrowing road.

Nobody was under more pressure at the London Olympics than 'the face of the Games'. Yet Jessica delivered the...
The Cat Who Came Back for Christmas- How a Cat Brought a Family the Gift of Love
AuthorJulia Romp
When a stray cat started visiting her garden, the last thing Julia needed was another addition to her household. For Julia already had her hands full with her son George, who suffered from autism. Quiet and withdrawn, ten-year-old George appeared lost in his own world, upset by the slightest change...
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