Ambition is the driver that propels people forward in life, motivating and inspiring them to be successful, but blind ambition can also lead to one's demise, infecting anyone and everyone involved. In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' blind ambition is revealed as the main cause of the destruction of those around Macbeth and finally resulting in his own destruction. Yet this problematic human characteristic leading to possibly destructive unintended consequences has survived and is the theme of this...

A loving relationship can be defined as two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. But what if ignorance and alienation become a dominant force within and external prejudice becomes a barrier? Cis, a beautiful, coloured twenty-eight-year-old fashion writer, and Andy, a twenty-eight-year-old Scottish businessman, have been together since university days and married for two years. Both are inexperienced lovers, too busy to care, and are sleepwalking their way to divorce over t...

The Odd Patients was written as a short novel during a 7-day course of antibiotics required immediately prior to heart valve surgery, only being revisited to inject actual experiences during those first 48-hours post-op. Having been alerted to the prospect of a one-in-three chance of not surviving surgery I needed a positive focus to steer me through this prospect, with survival at its core. Alternatively, should I fail to survive, I needed to plot where I was with each of the books mentio...