Timothy C. Baker is Senior Lecturer in Scottish and Contemporary Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009) and Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition (2014).

1. Introduction: Literary Animals.- 2. The Ape Speaks: Rereading Red Peter in the Twenty-First Century.- 3. Ladies into Foxes: Narratives of Transformation.- 4. The Dying Animal.- 5. The Dying Animals: Anthropocene Stories.- 6. Look! A Squirrel!: Animals Writing.