New York: BlueHen Books / Penguin Putnam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, which continues the story of Gregor Samsa, who morphed into a cockroach in Kafka's Metamorphosis. In this version, he is sold to a Viennese sideshow rather than being swept into the trash, and he quickly becomes the major attraction in entrepreneur Amadeus Hoffnung's bizarre little circus - but once he goes off to New York, he undergoes another transformation, "into a half-man, half-insect superhero whom the author uses to reexamine the first half of the 20th century, with Samsa working behind the scenes as a liaison in the worlds of science, music, business and politics to push pivotal historical events in the right direction. His encounters with Charles Ives, FDR, Einstein and Oppenheimer, among others, are rendered with a combination of humor, chutzpah and intelligence." (PW) Dust jacket praise from Peter Beagle and Tom Robbins among others. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 468 pp. ISBN: 0-399148361.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003). First edition - The first novel by this award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer, originally published in the UK under the title "Sun Dog." Publisher's Weekly described it as "An imaginative fable grounded in realistic detail, which follows the metamorphosis of August Chalmin, a socially awkward, lonely 30-something Londoner with 'upright blood-orange hair which limbo danced crazily from his head, as though a madman lived there, leaping from a burning attic.' .. Over the course of a year, August's body undergoes a series of peculiar changes tied to the seasons. His skin turns blue and an icicle dangles from his ear in the fall and winter. In the spring, his body begins to bud, sprouting small leaves and branches... Mournful, quietly suspenseful and gently surreal, August's story is a haunting whimsy that marks the arrival of a talented newcomer." 320 pp.