I was a rat! ...or The Scarlett Slippers Reverend Richard Coles on her family and on

on her family and on herself

professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens' portrait

spurred on by his love of Greek heroes and romantic poetry

gets commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist

Craig Russell introduces us to a new detective hero

I was a rat! ...or The Scarlett Slippers Reverend Richard Coles on her family and onI was a Rat! Roger insists, and insists . . . In fact, when Bob the cobbler and his washerwoman wife, Joan, find the young boy abandoned on their doorstep, these are the only words he says. And he does have ratty behaviour, it's true. Staying with Bob and Joan, however, Roger learns quickly to behave more like a human child. They try to find his parents, but the orphanage, police and hospital all have nothing on their records about a lost boy in the