Career
His first two books "A Cat Called Birmingham" (Hodder & Stoughton 2005) and "You Can Take the Cat Out of Slough" (Hodder & Stoughton 2007) tell the story of a disaster prone cat named Birmingham. A Cat Called Birmingham has since been translated into French and Chinese. In France, the book is entitled "Monsieur Chatastrophe".
The book caused controversy in Birmingham because it was seen as a slur on the city by a London-based author You Can Take the Cat Out of Slough has also been released in France (October 2009), entitled "Le Journal de Monsieur Chatastrophe"
A Cat Called Birmingham & You Can Take the Cat Out of Slough have recently been released for Kindle (2011), and both have featured in Kindle"s Top Ten Cat books
A Cat Called Birmingham reached its 10th United Kingdom edition in 2014. You Can Take the Cat Out of Slough will be re-released in paperback in 2015.
In 2009, Pascoe signed with Anova, and "Death Destruction and a Packet of Peanuts", a humorous factual/historical tour of the English Civil War battlefields and their pubs, was released on Anova"s Portico imprint in July 2010. Chris Pascoe is now a writer with various United Kingdom and United States magazines, and is a columnist for the United Kingdom national magazines My Weekly and Your Cat.
