All workers deserve access to a safe and secure retirement. But neoliberal governments set up a dynamic where the retirement of some is predicated upon the exploitation of many. In the late-1980s, Ontario’s government, financial sector, and labour movement collaborated on a major restructuring of the province’s public sector pensions. The result? The unlocking of a vault containing billions of dollars, suddenly open to be privately invested in capital markets. All this occurred as Ontario’...

Felix is taken up to the Ifu Lokuduma Four and heads north while Hanna plots her escape from the armagedonnists. Will they ever see each other again?This is the sixth book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.As the polar ice caps melt, dormant volcanoes beneath the frozen poles became active speeding up the melting process. Waters rise, not one metre in a hundred years, but a hundred meters in one year. T...

A murder mystery short story about a gruesome and distinctly messy murder in a retirement home.

Felix heads back down south to try to save the Wetlanders from the onslaught of the Scientologists, Evangelicals and Trumps' Mugs.Others try to make amends for their decisions, to stop trying to forget.This is the third book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.YA climate action adventure. Sea levels have risen 200 metres and England is underwater. What remains of the UK is divided: Scotland is rule...

Their world, the island, is sinking, being eaten by the sea, surrounded and attacked by monsters that stalk the night, and increasingly the day. Felix and Hana have promised each other to do whatever it takes to stay alive and stay together. But which, stay together or stay alive, is more important as the last days come upon them?This is the fourth book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.As the polar ice...

A family hide out in the woods during a time of civil war. They are discovered and a young girl has to fight to survive the next twelve hours.

The first job is always soul destroying. Do you survive it? Do you succumb to the greed?Do you drown, lost in the city, alone, knowing somewhere that wonderful things are happening?

Felix and Hanna have gone their separate ways: Hanna, on board the sailing ship 'Surt's eld ar slakt' heads north while Felix walks through the algae lit lava tubes under the ocean. Both are being persued.This is the fifth book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.As the polar ice caps melt, dormant volcanoes beneath the frozen poles became active speeding up the melting process. Waters rise, not one metre...

Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant.Performed at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was the culmination of years of grit, compassion, and the pursuit of excellence by a remarkable medical team—No...

Farm worker family life of on a farm trying to modernise mechanically and socially.It was the first chapter of a book but I got half way through and lost the plot went I stopped for Christmas.

A short story of being a parent, old age and probably probably some form of dementia. Quite miserable frankly

Post-glacial isostatic rebound occurs as polar ice melts. This allows the dormant volcanos to become active again, completing the ice melt. Northern Europe is particularly badly affected by the floods that follow.What is left of the United Kingdom survives in the highlands of Scotland and the Pennines. A ticketing system has allowed the rich to buy their way to safety. The remaining citizen refugees are bombed to take pressure off the walls built around this new nation of Topland.