In Characters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together probably the most participating missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.

Adam Joyce, Elizabeth Taylor

Erasmus Darwin, Ernest Hemingway

Chester Himes, Raymond Chandler

John Cheever, Edward Lear

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jack port Lemmon

& many more