When You Left is a picture book for 4- 8 year olds, and explores the theme that when parents break up and one parent moves on, it’s okay to have muddled feelings. A child’s parents split up and a new parent, Alex, has come on the scene. While the child desperately wants their parents to get back together and wants to dislike the new parent, there is a realisation that the sadness gets better, there can be room to love another parent and that the future can look hopeful.

What is an activist? Why do we need them? Join Hope as she discovers how to make positive change on issues that matter from clothes made in fair trade to refugee aid – and to have fun at the same time!

An uprising that would finally lead to the emancipation of “man as slave.”

The dangers of humans slipping into a state of obeisance to mechanistic inventions has been a pressing issue ever since the industrial revolution. But in 2020, and in the midst of an electromagnetic era and the promise of robots taking over human work patterns, the issue is at the very forefront of concerns for the physical, mental, psychological and spiritual well-being of mankind as a whole.

This book is a collection of events adapted into stories using a variety of styles and voices. These are true stories, told from firsthand accounts and my own experiences, although most of the details are accurate, some have had to be changed for reasons of security, narrative or memory. Some of the dialogue is accurate, some has been created to carry the story along. Usually first names only are kept to protect identities and sometimes they are entirely changed in case there were legal ramifications. Please forgive these vagaries and aberrations, they are done to provide the reader with a complete and enjoyable experience.

Beyond precipitating illness and death in a great many people across the globe, the Covid-19 pandemic has had a diverse range of further impacts. Among these, it has revealed that rapid large-scale change in the behaviour of societies is possible, it has led to inspiring stories of human endeavour (and dispiriting stories of human greed), and it has offered a stark warning as to the fragility of current economies.