The perfect gift for cat lovers: a beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing life, and how cats can change our lives.

For the last 20 years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with the late poet and prizewinning author Mayumi Inaba's story of life with her cat Mii, after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo.

The book follows their everyday joys th...

The next installment in Ada Moncrieff's Christmas mystery series, Murder at Midwinter follows amateur sleuth Daphne once again as she attempts to solve a murder at her school reunion which seems to be tied to an unsolved kidnapping twenty years before.