Arnold and Molly Forbutt's love of stray cats brings down disapproval on their innocent heads and Arnold's response is such as to set him up against the antisocial media being used to disseminate popular challenges.

Jubilee is an amusing tale of when Sam with his family and two cats - Flea and Ridden - are invited to the Queen's platinum Jubilee celebration after winning a contest set by the organisation over which the Duchess of Cornwall presided. The family finally gets to meet the Queen of England.

Faced with the loss of his ancestral home following the huge increase in death duties in mid-twentieth century Britain, Michael Montayne forges an unusual enterprise with his best man, whose family turns out to have been shamefully entangled with Michael's for generations past.

This autobiographical, non-technical and mostly light-hearted account of three lecture tours through Continental Europe in the late '70s and early '80s by a Cambridge research chemist describes professional and personal interactions with many colourful and extraordinarily talented hosts.

Friendship between a cat and a mouse, between an owl and a mouse, between a cat, an owl and snakes? Ridiculous!

Now it's the turn of the humans in our family to fall under the microscope. It will do Flea and Ridden good to read about some of the scrapes their masters (servants) have been getting into.

Flea and Ridden, the most entertaining cats in the fictional world, embark on their greatest adventure yet: joining their slaves - sorry, owners - on a road trip across the country.

Jewellery goes missing and our agile cat, Flea, is officiously accused of theft once again.

In Button, just where is the writer going? Is he losing his mind? Hasn't he proofread his story? At least in You, that isn't the problem. Here is a modern-day morality play with just a touch of fantasy. Romp, on the other hand, is just that from end to end.

Our friendly but all-too-curious marmalade cat, Ridden, has found a new friend from whom he learns some very naughty habits.

It's a strange world where a spider called Alex falls in love with a dragonfly called Zada.

Rosie is almost a terrier. She spends most of her time exploring the cliffs, gardens and sea-side town of Rocky Bay, playing with squirrels but especially with her tousled and untidy friend, Scruff, who is a mongrel of uncertain roots.

Stories within stories, streams of consciousness and flights of imaginative fancy... These eight pieces, some related and some not, weave their way through some of the trials of human existence.

Sam and Red invite a retired senior policeman and his wife who they have known for years for lunch. There are fifty or so teddy bears and other stuffed creatures around the house who observe the goings-on with laughter and rudeness.

Flea is more than a kitten; she has grown into an agile and beautiful young lady. She chats to her friend, a laughing kookaburra, in places no cat is expected to reach.

A story of kindness, fun and an unusual friendship, BIRD is not a book to miss. We follow Bird, a confident and cocky currawong who claims to know everything while his friend, Cat, is happy to let him believe so.