Non-Fiction
Books are available from online retailers, publishers, and most major bookstores.
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.
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, and more on mortality and its evolution.
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
Coming December 2025: The Biology of Intergenerational Trauma
To appear in an anthology of fiction and non-fiction called
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.
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press