Sosuke Natsukawa is a Japanese physician and novelist. He graduated from the Shinshu University medical school and practises medicine at a hospital in the largely rural prefecture of Nagano. His multi-volume debut novel, Kamisama no Karute (God’s Medical Records), has won several prizes and has sold over three million copies in Japan. The Cat Who Saved the Library is the second book in his bestselling series featuring Tiger the talking tabby cat.

The highly anticipated sequel to Sosuke Natsukawa’s The Cat Who Saved Books, this is a wise and wonderful tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving girl, and the power of books to make a difference in the world.