After dropping out of high school and working an office job for 20 years, Stuart Deep became a writer later in life, bringing with him a sharp eye for people, power, and the strange ways ambition can shape behaviour. His background outside the literary world gave him a grounded, observant perspective — one that now runs through his fiction.

His debut novel, Fishy Business, follows our human impulses into darker waters, revealing not just what people desire, but also what they fear, revere, and destroy along the way.