Mr Thundermug

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 105, [1]. Publisher's scarlet cloth, lettered in black to spine; emerald green endpapers. Copiously illustrated throughout with photo-etchings by the author. Dustjacket illustration by Richard Bravery.

Having acquired the faculties of elegant human speech, a baboon finds himself becoming less able to connect with his primitively rooted family, develops a passionate attachment to his human teacher, and finds himself ironically put on trial for cruelty to animals. A first novel. "[A] gently affecting and often funny allegory of the outsider." –Publishers Weekly