Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes.

Firkin and the Grey Gangsters was in 1936 a metaphor for the fear of takeover by corporate America – Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle against a horde of grey squirrel

invaders from America. Firkin speaks in Scots.

The Sheep who wasn’t a Sheep is about the thoughts going through the head of a sheep, swimming

between one Outer Isle and the other.

The White Drake is a farmyard drake in Perthshire learning about flying.

Illustrated by: Feodor Rojankovsky