Peter Gethers Books

'The wonderful thing about having a relationship with a cat is that it can bring you to something truly extraordinary and life-changing'There comes a time in every cat's life when his schedule slows down, and he struggles with aches and pains.

There are only three things a cat needs for a fine life - good food, a comfortable bed, and universal praise and love. Luckily - after converting his human, Peter, from cat hater to cat lover - Norton has plenty of all three. In A Cat Called Norton, the eponymous cat taught Peter how to love.

Peter was a confirmed loner and cat hater, until he was given a small, grey (and impeccably handsome) kitten with folded ears by his then girlfriend. But, after learning how to love his cat, would Peter now learn how to love another human too?

Exploring the profound bond between cooking and relationships, this memoir captures a son's journey as he uncovers his mother's remarkable talent for weaving love into her culinary creations. Through humor and heartfelt anecdotes, he reflects on how her kitchen becomes a space of connection, revealing the deep emotional ties that food can foster among family and friends.

Dass es der Forschung gelungen ist, menschliches Leben zu verlängern, hält die amerikanische Politik geheim. Der vom Leben gebeutelte ehemalige Chefermittler der Mordkommission wird aus seiner Lethargie gerissen, als er dem Geheimnis auf die Spur kommt

Carl Granville is a would-be novelist who is beginning to think his writing career is going nowhere fast, when he is approached by the hottest editor in town and given a six figure sum to fictionalise a fifty-year-old diary. Sworn to secrecy and on a tight deadline, Carl is close to finishing when the editor is murdered... and within hours Carl has been fingered as the killer. He's only got one person to turn to, his ex-lover Amanda. With an unknown demon on his tail he manages to get to Washington, but the demon has extraordinary resources and Amanda too is drawn into the nightmare. They have only one option - to track down the author of the original diary and the place where the events related in it took place and the true identity of Gideon. But someone knows where they are headed and are certain they'll never get there. Told with spectacular pace, peopled with tough but vulnerable characters, Russell Andrews' first novel marks the debut of a best-selling name.

When a burglary goes wrong on the opening night of his new restaurant, Jack Keller is left a widower and suffering from several bullet wounds. In emotional and physical turmoil he becomes a self-pitying recluse, until Kid Demeter, a young man Jack once regarded as a son and who is now a formidable physiotherapist, bullies him into better health. Then Kid is found dead, but Jack cannot accept the view that his death was either accidental or suicide. Knowing he owes Kid for getting his own life back on track, Jack starts to investigate Kid's personal life and discovers he was a serial womaniser. He begins to identify and locate these women, but every time he speaks to one of them they end up dead. Then, as he edges closer to the truth of Kid's death, he realises that his wife's murder was the catalyst of all that followed.

After East Hampton, New York, is hit by a terrorist bombing, local cop Justin Westwood discovers that someone is targeting specific people to murder, and disguising these actions with what appear to be "suicide bombings," in this latest work by the bestselling author of "Aphrodite."

Wenn ein Kater eine Reise tut... Norton und sein Herrchen Peter lassen ihr bisheriges Leben in den USA hinter sich und ziehen für ein Jahr nach Südfrankreich. Von dort bereisen sie ganz Europa. Ihre abenteuerlichen Reisen führen sie nach Spanien, wo Norton beinahe nicht einreisen darf, nach Italien, wo der süße Kater fast einen Krieg anzettelt und an viele weitere Orte. Nach ihrer Rückkehr müssen sie erkennen, dass sich nicht nur ihre Umgebung verändert hat.