Anne McCaffrey is from Ireland; is that English enough?

she has teamed up with Elizabeth Scarborough (the Unicorn Creed, Song of Sorcery) to create a fine new trilogy, The Barque Cats, about spacefaring cats (who created the ancient Egyptian civilization) who are fighting evil asps who want to create black holes to destroy us all.

some of the cats share telepathic links with humans, i always was a sucker for that sort of thing.

the third and final volume, Catalyst, is now out.