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James Barrie

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Born

in Beverley, The United Kingdom

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http://www.TheodoreCat.com

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Crime

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February 2016

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James Barrie was born in Beverley, East Yorkshire. He studied at Leeds University before spending five years overseas, teaching English and working as a technical editor. Since 1998 he has lived in York.

In May 2012, he began writing The York Cat Crime Mysteries, a series of three books featuring feline sleuth Theodore. 'The First of Nine: The Case of the Clementhorpe Killer' was published in 2016, the sequel 'Rear Garden, or The Cat Who Knew Too Much' in 2018 and 'The Call of the Cat Basket' in 2019.

In 2022, 'The Naked Orientalist: The Turkish Life of French Sailor and Writer Pierre Loti' was published, a book started in 2001 and completed twenty years later! The novel is based on the author's own time living and working in Istanbul and th ...more

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	The First of Nine: The Case of the Clementhorpe Killer (A York Cat Crime Mystery, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rear Garden: The Cat Who Knew Too Much (A York Cat Crime Mystery, #2) by James Barrie (Goodreads Author), Robert Clear (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Burak Bakircioglu (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of the Cat Basket (A York Cat Crime Mystery Book 3) 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Humor won’t save you; it doesn’t really do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn’t matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you’ve developed a sense of humor, you still end up with your heart broken. That’s when you stop laughing. In the end there’s just the cold, the silence and the loneliness. In the end there’s only death.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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