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Description The book details my life with the anxiety and terror caused by schizophrenia and how I was able to overcome this. From what it was like to be locked in my room for two years and not able to go out at all to with intelligent help to overcome this and establish a more normal life again. About the Author My biographical history is very much dominated by schizophrenia which began at age 21. I had just graduated from university and star...

Description This book contains some forty poems about current affairs, urban life and some more personal aspects of Andrew Aldred's life. It also has six short stories of a dark nature involving murder, criminality, drug abuse and terrorism. About the Author Andrew Aldred grew up in Bolton and went to Bolton Grammar School before joining the army in 1982, where he served in Germany and the Falkland Islands. He left the army late in 1985 suff...

Description This book covers a variety of topics that are of interest now. It features personal poems from a man who was socially isolated before the corona virus and suffers from chronic health problems and mental illness about himself and his situation. It also covers current politics, global warming, sexuality and sex on television, social issues, personalities in politics and the media, current music and TV and more.

Love/Resistance/Rebellion. This book is a collection of poetry about what it is to be human. We are living breathing beings that hurt each other and the author asks questions about how we can be honest about this in a way that makes less judgemental and more forgiving of each other. The book also dwells on the nature of his family relationships as much as it did in a previous chipmunka publication 'Beyond the Wilderness'. In this book the ...

Description This book is a continued mixture of poetry and short stories. The poetry is about my daily life as a paranoid schizophrenic and issues that concern me, and hopefully will concern you, the reader, as well. The issues covered include current affairs, relationships and family. The short stories are about a variety of topics including a mental patient on the run, a cannibal woman, a child-molesting murderer, discipline in the army, lif...

Description This is the continuing story of Andrew Aldred as he tries to find a job after being on sickness benefit for a long time and the way he sees the world. Andrew Aldred is a Falklands veteran and has been in secure mental hospital for twelve years. He has been out of hospital for ten years and come off a home office section. He remains in a relationship with his ex-wife which is very important to him and retains contact with his own fa...

Description This book is a mixture of poetry and short stories. The poetry is about my daily life as a paranoid schizophrenic and issues that concern me, and hopefully will concern you, the reader, as well. The issues covered include current affairs, relationships and family. The short stories are about a variety of topics including a mental patient on the run, a cannibal woman, a child-molesting murderer, discipline in the army, life as a sin...

Description This book contains a blend of poems I hope you will be interested in. It includes poems about cancer, which I was diagnosed with last year, politics in Britain, Europe and America, urban life, acts of terrorism, and growing older. I hope you enjoy it. I am an ex-soldier with a thirty year history of mental illness and a multiple diagnosis, who has served time in prison and secure mental hospital. I live in North Manchester. About t...

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About the AuthorEdna Mary Hunneysett was born in 1940 near Stratford-upon-Avon, but in her infancy, the family moved to a small, remote farm on the North Yorkshire moors where Edna, the third of seven children, spent her early life. After passing the eleven plus exam, she was a boarder at a convent grammar school. On finishing school, she was employed by the Inland Revenue. She married in 1961 and has eight children, twenty-one grandchildren a...

Vampires And Zombies' is a second full-length collection from poet and songwriter John Tucker. It is described in the 'Self-Reflection' at the end as a "rewrite, correction and extension" of his first collection 'Rose Petals In The Ashtray'. In this new collection Tucker juxtaposes exactly 74 poems and 74 songs on wide-ranging subjects such as the loss of a father, unrequited love, the breakdown of a relationship, the dangers of drug-taking an...

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This book is ground-breaking because, • It shakes the very foundations of the legal systems definition of both whistleblowing and public interest.• It exposes the shocking failures of regulators and other authorities to act on the concerns of whistle-blowers from all sectors.• It explains why the vested interests of the compliance and legal industries have taken precedence over the public interest and public safety. • A whistle-blower has re-w...

This book is mostly aimed at Professionals and those working with people who are, or who have experienced mental health issues in relation to adverse childhood experiences and sexual abuse. The book begins by exploring an in depth, focused account of the journey the writer went through when living through these traumatic experiences.The reader is invited to understand this particular journey in order to be able to explore the journal entries a...

I'm not a literary person by nature but after watching the film 'A Beautiful Mind', I was left with the desire to write about my own experiences and the narrative of my voices, which I've lived with for over thirty years. It might be helpful for other schizophrenics, the medical profession, or the public to understand how grand and logical delusions appear to a sufferer. I still have difficulty accepting it's all generated by my own mind. A fe...

Essential techniques that will help youmanage your bipolar without resorting to medication.Drawing directly from his own experience and personaldevelopment, Jason shares such techniques as…Building self esteem with ha breathingThe power of Neuro-linguistic ProgrammingReprogramming your subconscious mindConnecting with othersSetting goals and achieving themHow writing a book can transform your life and that of others…and much more. You'll soon ...

Book descriptionCategories whistle-blowing, abuse of vulnerable people, law reform, defining the public interest Free speech, Human Rights, abuse investigations. This book is ground-breaking because, • It shakes the very foundations of the legal systems definition of both whistleblowing and public interest.• It challenges the misuse of the word "Whistle-blower" by both the press and campaigns such as #MeToo. • It exposes the shocking failures ...

DescriptionBaudelaire and the Great Beyond is a book that is difficult to categorise. Part poetic exploration, part rhetorical experiment, this book traverses the multi-faceted world which is Baudelaire's universe by one constant refrain - the book constantly addresses Baudelaire through concise and well formulated 'poetic brevities', that makes salient aspects of our own world, for us to consider. There are no lengthy and scholarly diatribes ...

This is the true story of George wilson aka George Christopher. A normal, working class boy who found fame in the children's hit tv show Grange Hill, playing the lovable scouse rogue Ziggy, when he was just 15. He lived in London for four years, there were a few bad times but soon he relished in this new way of life. Met some amazing people, loved working on the show, the laughter with the cast, the nightlife are just a few of the things he lo...

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