A Cat May Look at a King: & Seven other Stories to tell your Cat
From around the world – China to Ireland, France to India – come eight ancient cat tales of enduring popularity throughout generations of Cat People. Affectionate, vicious, murderous or benign – however you regard cats you will find them here portrayed in all their contradictory splendour. "When Ramsay Wood retells a story he makes a proper job of it: not for him those pale imitations of a noble original which is what your average re-teller palms off on his readers." THE TIMES As of 2021 there were an estimated 220 million owned-cats on Earth and 480 million strays. In the US over 100 million feline-pets are loved in roughly 60 million households. In the UK 26% of households share an estimated 11 million cats (suggesting that there may be as many feral ones living wild). "Every story has two sides, so does every wall.” DIVIDED — why we're living in an age of walls by Tim Marshall, 2018