My writing represents a collision between some of the stories I have spun over the years to my children and their children and a world of animals, mainly cats. The stories blend the real, the imagined and sometimes the wacky. The inspiration behind my first book Bernie Bolts Bergen stemmed from a cat that we sold to a family in Bergen, Norway and I wondered what would happen if he decided to return to us, back in Scotland. I didn't say that I lived in Scotland, earlier did I. Scotland offers a backdrop for the closing chapters as Bernie attempts to overcome the supernatural and the weird in more...