Non-Fiction
Free reads are my articles from anthologies or educational newsletters in medicine and science. They change a few times a year.
The current free read is an article I wrote for healthcare workers about all the maladies and syndromes that may be associated with Christmas.
You can download the full article here.
Some of my (older) non-fiction is for those with an advanced level of biology.
More current and forthcoming books are for a general audience.
The Conceptual Foundations of Cell Mortality
This a chapter in the series Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology: The New Era of Microbial Cell Death
Edited by Marie J Hardwick (John Hopkins University)
Aimed at undergraduate students in both humanities and science. Or anyone with an interest in the subject, I guess we all a little curious about mortality.
Publisher: Springer Nature
The Biology of Intergenerational Trauma
Coming February 2026
The knowledge that trauma of various kinds can be transmitted, physiologically, to subsequent generations in real and lasting ways is
both profound and far reaching. Scientists have worked out some of the mechanisms and in this chapter I give a very brief summary of how this works.
The chapter is for non-specialists in the area and is published in the anthology of both fiction and non-fiction
Loud Explosions, Silenced Screams: Reflections on the War in Gaza
edited by Mark Potterton with foreword by Justice Edwin Cameron.
Published with the help of Jacana Press Staging Post.
The Evolutionary Origins Of Life And Death
An exploration of the evolutionary mystery of programmed cell death, demonstrating how life and death coevolved, with cellular death being essential for sustaining more complex life. By synthesizing interdisciplinary research, The Evolutionary Origins Of Life And Death reveals that traits promoting life and death coadapted, highlighting their interconnectedness from the earliest cellular organisms.
Bear in mind that this book is written for students of biology and others with a fairly advanced knowledge of the natural world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press