Matthew Flinders' Cat

Matthew Flinders' Cat
First edition
AuthorBryce Courtenay
SubjectAustralian fiction, homeless persons
GenreAdult fiction
Set inSydney
PublisherPenguin Books Australia Ltd
Publication date
2002
ISBN0670910619

Matthew Flinders' Cat is a 2002 novel by Bryce Courtenay (ISBN 0670910619), published by Viking Press. It records the relationship between a homeless former lawyer and alcoholic, and a young skateboard riding boy with a troubled background, who slowly bond over tales of Matthew Flinders and "Trim", the ship's cat who travelled with him on his voyages to circumnavigate Australia.

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