Deric Longden

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1992
  • Latest Book:
    April 2014
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • The CAT WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

    A gullible cat owner tells how he was won over by the soaking wet kitten he found in his garden and how the pet changed his life, in a captivating true story illustrated with black-and-white line drawings....

  • Enough to Make a Cat Laugh

    Throughout the 1990s, Deric Longden has shared his life with Aileen Armitage and four cats: Thermal, Tigger, Frink, and shabby old Arthur. And the cats have found that sharing a life with Aileen can be a very painful business. She hardly ever trips o...

  • Lost For Words

    When Annie Londgen suffers a stroke, her world and her son Deric’s, suffer a massive change and she finds herself, literally, lost for words. My mother’s eccentricity was something the family took for granted, it had always been there â€" her inv...

  • Diana's Story

    ‘It’s not easy to stop the tears when you read ‘Diana’s Story.’ Sometimes they are tears of grief, sometimes of laughter. Mostly like much of what’s good about life, they’re both. Chock full of gorgeous, fruity characters, this is a won...

  • I'm a Stranger Here Myself

    In 1990, with a bestselling book behind him, and spurred on by a marriage to the writer Aileen Armitage, Deric Longden took one of the most momentous decisions of his life and moved to a foreign country. Huddersfield, in Yorkshire, with its distincti...

  • A Play On Words

    Ever since Dame Thora Hird breathed life into the role of Deric Longden’s mother in @Wide Eyed and Legless’. She had been on at him to write a play based on the sequel, ‘Lost For Words’.‘And don’t hang about, I’m eighty â€" three, you k...

  • Tailpieces

    50 amusing short stories for cat lovers by Emmy and BAFTA-winning author Deric Longden. Broadcaster and speaker, he has written many widely-acclaimed books The Cat Who Came in From the Cold, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Enough to Make a Cat Laugh, ...

  • Radio Times: Take 1

    Deric Longden was best known for his books which touched millions in print and on screen, and which were critically acclaimed on both the UK and International stage. Many of the stories he told were drawn from his broadcasting days with BBC Radio Der...

  • Radio Times: Take 2

    Deric Longden was best known for his books which touched millions in print and on screen, and which were critically acclaimed on both the UK and International stage. Many of the stories he told were drawn from his broadcasting days with BBC Radio Der...



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Deric Longden has published 9 books.

Deric Longden does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Radio Times: Take 2, was published in April 2014.

The first book by Deric Longden, The CAT WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, was published in October 1992.

No. Deric Longden does not write books in series.
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