I am about to send Sceptre the final set of copy edits for The Teleportation Accident, which comes out in July next year. While I was working on those, I noticed that the selection of animals named in the text seems unusually diverse for a book that is not explicitly zoological in theme. So here, as a very early preview of my second novel, is an alphabetical list of all 48. I think in an ideal world the release would require no further promotional materials of any kind.

bat
bison
blackbird
budgerigar
cat
chicken
chimpanzee
cockroach
cow
coyote
cricket
dog
duck
electric eel
elephant
fox
frog
goat
grizzly bear
horse
housefly
iguana
loris
mouse
mussel
ostrich
oyster
panda
peacock
penguin
pig
pigeon
rat
rooster
seagull
silkworm
skunk
sloth
sparrow
spider
stag
starling
stingray
tiger
trout
turtle
wolf
woodpigeon

I'm pleased to report that Boxer, Beetle has won the 2011 UK Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction Book.