Non Fiction Stories

When I look in life’s rear-vision mirror, I don’t see an inevitable and steady career progression. I see a game of Snakes and Ladders. There were plenty of snakes down in the long grass of organisational politics. None more venomous than calling out hypocrisy. The ladders came by hard work and hunches but I had…

No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that young men and women were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than their own; that as they busied themselves for new careers, university marketing departments with intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded them with hungry eyes and silently drew…

It was love at first sight. She was exotic, mysterious and full of stories. Some as old as Homer. I had travelled 14,000 kilometres, through innumerable airport scanners and Wi-Fi-less hotels, just to find her. My destination was the Atlantis Books on the Greek island of Santorini. A white-washed cave full of the best modern,…