Extract from ‘Lost Cat’ from Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays by Mary Gaitskill, copyright © 2017 by Mary Gaitskill. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. And reproduced by kind permission of Daunt Books Publishing. Extract from My Life So Far, By Pard, copyright © 2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published by Book View Café in 2016. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Extract from All My Cats copyright © 1965 by the Bohumil Hrabal Estate, Zurich, Switzerland, translated by Paul Wilson copyright © 2019. Reproduced by kind permission of Penguin Classics, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Extract from ‘On Cats’ by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Suzy Robinson, copyright © 2021, is reproduced by kind permission of Suzy Robinson. Extract from A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen, copyright © 2015 James Bowen and Garry Jenkins, is reproduced by kind permission of Hodder and Stoughton Limited, an imprint of Hachette UK, and by St. Martin’s Griffin. Extract from ‘Frida: The Perfect Familiar’ from Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism by Alice Walker, copyright © 1997 by Alice Walker. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. And used by kind permission of David Higham Associates.
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Extract from ‘Lost Cat’ from Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays by Mary Gaitskill, copyright © 2017 by Mary Gaitskill. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. And reproduced by kind permission of Daunt Books Publishing. Extract from My Life So Far, By Pard, copyright © 2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published by Book View Café in 2016. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Extract from All My Cats copyright © 1965 by the Bohumil Hrabal Estate, Zurich, Switzerland, translated by Paul Wilson copyright © 2019. Reproduced by kind permission of Penguin Classics, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Extract from ‘On Cats’ by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Suzy Robinson, copyright © 2021, is reproduced by kind permission of Suzy Robinson. Extract from A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen, copyright © 2015 James Bowen and Garry Jenkins, is reproduced by kind permission of Hodder and Stoughton Limited, an imprint of Hachette UK, and by St. Martin’s Griffin. Extract from ‘Frida: The Perfect Familiar’ from Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism by Alice Walker, copyright © 1997 by Alice Walker. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. And used by kind permission of David Higham Associates.
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