Non-Fiction
Books are available from online retailers, publishers, and most major bookstores.
Free reads are articles from anthologies or educational newsletter in medicine and science and change a few times a year.
The current free read is a newsletter perspective on Mental Health.
The book below is for those with an advanced level of biology. Forthcoming books are for a general audience and will include a range
of things: memoir, photos essay, more on mortality for a general audience and more.
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 requires a fairly advanced level of biology. It is suitable for students of biology, and not the lay public.
Coming 2026: The Biology of Intergenerational Trauma
To appear in an anthology of fiction and non-fiction called Loud Guns, Silent Screams: South Africans Reflect on the War in Gaza,
edited by Adam Potterton and Mark Potterton.
Coming 2026: Death and Taxa (co-authored with Grant Ramsey)
An exploration of death across the tree of life. Organisms have an ability to manipulate how and when they die
with major consequences for the evolution of life on Earth. Sometimes selfish, sometimes altruistic, the way organisms die has profound implications.
Aimed at undergraduate students in both humanities and science, or anyone with an interest in the subject. I suppose we all a little curious about mortality.