The Golden Menagerie

Lucian's youthful ignorance or innocence, as it is often known, is exploited by a strange sect which worships pleasure and mirth. This leads him into a series of adventures in which he is transformed into a dog, a parrot, a cat and a vulture.

Allan Cameron is widely published in English and Italian. Brought up in Nigeria and East Pakistan (later Bangladesh), he has worked at sea, been a postman, a factory worker, a university lecturer and latterly a writer. He has now settled down and now lives on the Isle of Lewis.