You’ll find links for where to get the book at the end. Prologue Monsoon. Not my favorite season, dear reader. For a feline with a coat as sumptuously absorbent as mine, and being somewhat wonky of gait, venturing out in wild weather is an exercise fraught with danger. Which is why interminable rains and fog...
Category: The Dalai Lama’s Cat series
Awaken the Kitten Within – Available to pre-order now!
I am thrilled to finally be able to let you know that my latest book, Awaken the Kitten Within, is now with the publishers for printing – and available to pre-order from all the usual places. Every book “takes a village” and in this case the village includes our wonderful designer Sue Campbell, Hay House editors...
Gracious! Time to pick a book cover again?!
It’s hard to believe, dear readers, but we are once again at that intriguing stage of the publishing process where we have to choose a cover for the next Dalai Lama’s Cat book – Awaken the Kitten Within! As always, our wonderful designer Sue Campbell has given us some great options to choose from. So...
The Dalai Lama’s Cat and the Four Paws of Spiritual Success. Prologue and Chapter One here!
Prologue Are you curious, dear reader? If you were to find yourself padding past an alcove concealed by a curtain, would your every instinct be to tug back the fabric—or, indeed, push under it—to see what lay behind? Making your way down a familiar street, if you came to a door which, for your entire...
The new Dalai Lama’s Cat book: cover reveal!
I am thrilled to be revealing the chosen cover of the fourth Dalai Lama’s Cat book! My sincere thanks to each and every one of you who voted, commented and offered insights on the different options I shared a month ago. Although most people liked this cover, a number of you will have voted for...
Please help me pick the cover of the next Dalai Lama’s Cat book!
We have reached that fun part of the publishing process where we get to choose a cover of the new book! Once again, I’d like to ask for your help please! Our wonderful book designer, Sue Campbell, has come up with five fantastic options for development. But which one is the winner? Rather than try to decide...
New Dalai Lama’s Cat book …and other exciting news!
I am thrilled to announce that The Dalai Lama’s Cat & The Four Paws of Spiritual Success is to be published on the 19th November 2019! For years, Dalai Lama’s Cat fans have been asking if there’s to be a fourth book – and HHC (His Holiness’s Cat) has been working her paws to the bone...
Happiness, food and The Art of Purring
How important is willpower to your happiness? And does food have anything to do with it? Most of us would agree that it requires willpower to graduate from school, learn a skill, or practice anything till you get really good at it. Self-fulfilment is unlikely to just happen spontaneously. It is more likely to...
The Astral Travelers Handbook & Other Tales – read the Dalai Lama’s Cat foreword here!
Could there be a greater honour than having the Dalai Lama’s Cat herself contribute the Foreword to my book, The Astral Traveler’s Handbook & Other Tales? If there is, dear reader, I have yet to be told about it. Below, fresh from the Himalayas, the musings of the world’s most realised feline, His Holiness’s Cat!...
What happens when the Dalai Lama’s Cat is visited by the Queen’s Corgi?
Picture the following scene, dear reader. It is a busy morning at the Himalaya Book Café. With less than an hour before lunch service, I am sitting on my customary spot on magazine rack, nostrils flaring as I try to identify the delightful aromas wafting from the kitchen, where the Dragpa brothers are working their...