Keith Waterhouse
The Naked Cat & Naked Dog
Dogwatching
By Desmond Morris
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Catwatching
By Desmond Morris
Jonathan Cape 106pp £4.95 order from our bookshop
After a TV programme on the horrors of nuclear war, a woman rang the BBC to ask whether fallout shelters could be fitted with cat-flaps. It is the kind of item that gets into This England (it did) as an example of our native dottiness. It could equally well have gone into The Bookseller as an indicator of the potential audience for cat books, which hog the shelves in even more profusion than royal wedding books.
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