Bird Brain

Item: Bird Brain
Author: WhichBook

Guy Kennaway

This is a frivolous, tongue-in-cheek story full of astute satire, wry social observation and some very good jokes. Centred on the traditional shooting fraternity, the reader is left to make up their own mind about the correct balance between shooting for fun and animal rights. You will thoroughly enjoy the characterisation of the animals which is excellent and somehow spookily realistic.

Extract

It can’t be known why Banger was reincarnated as a pheasant, but it must be borne in mind that forty million pheasants are raised on game farms every year in Britain, so the chances of one being a little bit unusual are high. It could be that whoever ordains these things enjoyed sending back to earth a man who had devoted most of his life to killing pheasants, as a pheasant. We just cannot know. And at this early stage, Banger was barely more than conscious of being conscious, so he had not even begun to theorise about his predicament.

Parallels

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O’Hagan
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom