Simon Worrall's short book, Copulating Cats and Holy Men: The Creation of The Book of Kells, is written in marvellous style. It is eccentric and fun, true to the spirit and animals of the original manuscript. The author says it might as accurately be called "The Book of Cats". The reader is caught up in awe, passion, factual details, history, perspective and appreciation of "the greatest relic of Western civilization". I learned a lot and enjoyed each of Worrall's words, except for one regrettable spelling error. He predicts the swirling lines and characters of Celtic calligraphy and iconography may replace the straight lines of infrastructures and roads of our society's Roman tradition. That is if we follow the holy men's dreams of peace, love and heaven.