The Ghost Cat

Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

'The Ghost Cat is an Edinburgh delight: "mizzle-ridden" days were made for books like this!'
LUCY RIBCHESTER, author of The Hourglass Factory

'A beautiful story'
Tiktok's @beansthegingercat

'Enchanting, entertaining and engaging ...

'A beautifully written cat's-eye view of some 120 years of history. Prepare to be enchanted.'- SIMON BRETT, author of the Mrs Pargeter series


'The Ghost Cat is an Edinburgh delight: "mizzle-ridden" days were made for books like this!' - LUCY RIBCHESTER, author of The Hourglass Factory


'A beautiful story' - Tiktok's @beansthegingercat


'Enchanting, entertaining and engaging ... I found this beautiful little cats paws wrapped around my heartstrings throughout the entirety of the book.' - Goodreads reviewer, five stars


Alex is an author, editor and theatre professional from Edinburgh. His TikTok page, Housedoctoralex, has nearly 300,000 followers and he's been featured on television and in the national press. A doctoral graduate of English literature, Alex wrote his first book Library Cat (Black & White Publishing) while completing his PhD. It won the People's Book Prize in 2017, and has been translated into French, Korean and Italian. He also writes poetry, which has been published in New Writing Scotland , Gutter and The London Magazine , among others, and his academic book Larkin's Travelling Spirit was published in 2021 by Palgrave McMillan. Alex works at Capital Theatres as a creative engagement coordinator and editor while renovating his Edinburgh tenement flat at weekends, with his cat Tabitha, son Sasha and wife, Ellie.