The Velvet Paw of Asquith Novels

Fluffy just got dangerous.

Discover the Velvet Paw of Asquith Novels, starring cats and dogs in high adventure, romance, espionage, food fights, hotels, explosions and car chases.

Their international jet-setting adventures, involving greed, espionage and the occasional foray into professional cheese shaping, have cats and dogs taking center stage in a series of humorous and absurdist adventures. Also known as the Dooven Books, the books are aimed at a new adult audience and epitomize the emerging New Fable fiction genre. Its anthropomorphism permits a society recognizable as our own while allowing eccentricity to be the norm, rather than the exception, and absurdity to become eccentricity. This results in absurd societal behavior and ludicrous plots that permit a fresh perspective on storytelling. Were the characters human, this absurdity wouldn’t work. With their adventures set in vibrant and exotic locations, they have been described as "Wind in the Willows meets James Bond," though with fewer badgers. Although the books' characters are insane, the story-world is recognizable as our own, and with eccentricity as the norm rather than the exception, convention is not only turned upside down but shaken until some of its loose bits fall off.

While the premise of poetically inclined cats saving the world may seem absurd, New Fable brings credibility to the seemingly impossible and makes the absurd truly wonderful. Indeed, recently, sales of the series' Cinematic Audiobook Editions surpassed 10,000 copies, rendering it officially cult status, as reported by Scribl.com. So, join the growing community of readers who have fallen in love with this captivating series and embark on a literary adventure like no other, except for those that are similar.

The Velvet Paw of Asquith Novels: where genius is a four-letter word, along with other spelling errors.

The first 3 titles

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With Eyes No Longer Blind Thomas Corfield

To Blunt The Sharpest Claw Thomas Corfield

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About the Dooven Books

Who is Oscar Teabag-Dooven?

The Dooven Books follow the adventures of Oscar Teabag-Dooven, a secret agent, who considers himself more a poet than an international cat of mystery. He finds the training brash and clinical, with too much shouting and not enough singing. Consequently, thwarting villains' garish plans is rather tenuous, considering he can do little more than rhyme one lot of words with another.

What are the Velvet Paw of Asquith Novels?

Consider a world inhabited with only cats and dogs: a society recognizable as our own, but with its eccentricities being the norm, rather than the exception. A world where the charm of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows meets the exotic world of Ian Fleming's Bond. A world where fluffy just got dangerous. These are the Velvet Paw of Asquith Novels, also known as the Dooven Books: welcome to the genre of New Fable.

What is the Morigan Trilogy?

The fourth, fifth and sixth titles are an unprecedented Dooven adventure that takes the New Fable genre on the sort of rite of passage that Rites of Passage are renowned for.

The fourth book!

The Morigan Trilogy is coming. Darker and more unsettling than the previous titles, When Fear Is Not Afraid, takes the Dooven Books to the sort of heights that parachutes were invented for. This fourth title blisters with confidence and cements the Dooven Books as the epitome of the emerging New Fable fiction genre. More cats and dogs and high adventure and romance and espionage and food fights and hotels and explosions and car chases. The Dooven Books just got fluffier, darker and much more dangerous.

Read the Sixt Book as it is written!

In the interests of the reading public’s literary well-being, you can now follow the sixth Dooven Book as it is written and suffer less! With several trendy café scenes that render it more hip than a shattered pelvis, the absurd adventures of Oscar Teabag-Dooven continues in the absence of any context, whatsoever! Not that it matters, because this sixth book still features cats and dogs and high adventure and romance and hotels and food fights and espionage and explosions and car chases!

Music written for the books

Listen to music written specifically for the books. It's quite nice, if you like this sort of thing. And if not, listen anyway and consider it a sort of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

The emerging genre of New Fable fiction

Learn about the emerging genre of fiction the Dooven Books belong to, and why they are the only examples in existence.

Book Trailer

Watch the trailer for the first Dooven book 'The Purging Of Ruen.' Alternatively, don't and just get on with life. Especially if it's a good one. And if it isn't, watch the trailer and see just how bad it could be.

Wrongly Writing

Watch some of the first Wrong Book's middle bits.

Fable Pop

Watch some Fable Pop: music for the books, which is Dooven Muzak with pictures!

The Ongoing Saga of an Incomplete Wanker

Read some episodes from the second Wrong book, which is also about writing the Dooven Books. It recounts more of the disastrous consequences of writing them: disastrous in a legal sense, an emotional one and a seriously financial one.

Cinematic Audiobooks

The Dooven Books are produced as Cinematic Audiobooks, with lush orchestral scores and immersive ambient backgrounds, which provide excellent distraction from their appalling texts.

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