The Travelling Cat Chronicles

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First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Doubleday

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Tabineko Ripôto copyright © Hiro Arikawa 2015. All rights reserved.

First published in 2015 in Japan by Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo

English translation copyright © Philip Gabriel 2017

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Text illustrations by Yoco Nagamiya

Cover artwork by Shuai Liu/www.chilture.com

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Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781473541573

ISBNs 9780857524188 (hb)

9780857524195 (tpb)

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