Published: 2026
Pages: 193
Key Themes:

Themes: Disability, Mental Health, Anxiety, Triggers, Customer Service,  Staff Abuse,

Description

This is the first book of Veronica’s, “The Invisible Stubborn Snail Travel Series 001.” Having struggled for the past six years with a massive, Anxiety and Depression Trauma. So intense that she found herself unable to think, speak clearly, remember anything, and a body refusing to manage basic functions. For the first years, she resembled a wobbly Jelly. With no mind and no wish to survive.

Not the successful corporate life she was used to. After four years of rest and Psychology, her mind slowly began to unravel its past traumas. Unable to return to work and now retired. Travel and writing were her past loves. Sadly, she now found herself riddled with arthritis and a deteriorating spinal cord.

Ever the optimist, she thought the world of disabled people would be vastly improved since she remembered how strongly she had supported diversity in the workplace. Respect for others had always been her mantra.

Her expectations were great. So idealistic that she soon started to experience the reality of every mentally and physically disabled persons worse nightmare. Being Veronica, she chose to share her nightmares and dreams with us all. Focusing on how countries and resorts make assisted life and travel really diverse, and not just give it lip service.

This series is written with complete honesty. As she would have written reports at work when she was designing improved quality operational solutions. Now she champions the disabled traveller. As she found out quite early in her new quest, she has her work cut out.

This book is very relatable; it will make you laugh, cry and maybe trigger past experiences. Rest assured that whatever she writes, she has already spoken to the management team about. Her complaints are genuine.

If you ever see anyone bully or abuse a disabled person. Feel free to help them. It’s a lonely, intimidating world in a wheelchair……

Published: 2026
Pages: 48
Key Themes: Mental Health, Depression, Bipolar, Manic Depression, Question EVERTHING, believe NOTHING

Description

This book is the poetry of a sixty-year-old disabled ex-soldier wading through the problems of the world as it is and trying to provide some solutions and some sanity.  It gives his version of events and tries to provide some answers to things that seem beyond most politicians and people.

Extract

Scapegoat

I saw the photo of the unfortunate Andrew Mountbatten Windsor

Hunched back in the seat of a police car with the camera’s glare.

And he looked like a frightened rat about to be slaughtered.

I do not sympathise with who he is, but he has been made a scapegoat.

By Donald Trump and a bunch of redacted American playboys

Who want to point the finger at foreign nationals to deflect blame?

For everything they have done and will continue to do

We only tear our constitution to pieces because we are stupid.

And we fall for what the media tell us time and time again.

The like of royalty, rock stars and celebrities have always been like this.

Once you have a certain level of wealth this is how you behave

It’s all wrong but they are only coming down on Prince Andrew

And he is just the same as the rest of his overprivileged circle.

And he is not going to point the finger at others because of his guilt.

So, he will have to face the music and hope his luck changes over time.

Whatever he has done and is guilty of I do not like the way they have treated him.

Published: 2026
Pages: 103
Key Themes: Mental Health, Mental Illness, Awareness

Description

Hello, my name is Jo Rainbow.  I have lifelong mental health difficulties.  I’ve never let that hold me back.  I’ve been a self-harmer for over 40 years.  Now, I often go months without self-harming.

In my first book, “Don’t cut my lifeline”, I wrote about living with self-harm.  In this new book, I hope to show it’s ok to have mental health difficulties.  It’s even better when we can live happily and productively, despite mental health issues.

Self-injury has been my secret friend for about 40 years, at a great cost, both physically and emotionally.

Today, after a lot of tears, therapy and using the Decider Skills, I’m living.

Each new day, I give thanks. I discover something new, and learn a new skill.

If you are self-harming or thinking of self-harm, try to limit the damage you’re inflicting. Also try to reduce the occasions you self-harm.

The following may help.

1. Remember to respect yourself. You are a unique human being. You are special and loved by me.
2. Use only new, clean harming tools.
3. First aid. Remember to clean, dress wounds. If in any doubt, seek medical advice.
4. Treat yourself kindly. If a friend had hurt themselves, no doubt you would help them.

It may be impossible to stop self-harming at the moment. Keep trying to stop. One day this will be a choice, then an unhealthy choice. Finally a choice you do not wish to take.

It is possible to change ourselves, but not always the situation.

* For those who kindly bought my first book, thank you!

One important thing to note:  I spoke of “hearing voices”.  My new psychiatrist assures me, I do not “hear voices”.  The “voices” were intense, repeated strong thoughts.

I apologise unreservedly for any distress I may have caused, unintentionally.

Published: 2026
Pages: 383
Key Themes: SCHIZOPHRENA QUESTION

About the Author:

He was hospitalised, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at Greenwich hospital in 1995. He has been unemployed since late 2008.

He has been the author of several books e.g., 1) Trials of life, 2) Paradigms of my schizophrenia, 3) Memories put into verse, 4) Distinct,5) Memories of Schizophrenia, 6) A picture of health, 7) Imagination at work, 8) Three in one, 9) Recreational, 10) Is it a Misconception.

If you believe knowledge is power read this book the author would, like to know your thoughts! If one man’s meat could be another man’s poison a question is do, we make or create memories for ourselves.

As of October 2025, he hoped to change from using Virgin Media Landline for his broadband only service to BT Landline starting from November 2026 infarct, he is partly being triggered to do that.

Somebody who likes you would substantiate your use of simple common sense. Whenever he wants to prepare African dishes, he does it just after 3.00 PM. During weekdays he uses mouthwash during the weekends he makes use of toothpaste and mouthwash for Heaven compels them (stop pulling the hair of Christ) for every Transubstantiation of his and his disciples are accurate. John 6:55-59.

Portraying dignity without respect for each other is wrong that’s his own opinion! He goes into phase the Falcon bird induces him to have affinity for Cowrie shells. In death the falcon leaves no trace of itself because it divests itself the eagle does to the point of leaving an aura behind. Why do some of us have god marks. In that case, how do we ascertain Omens there are difference within metals and substance.

Published: 2026
Pages: 284
Key Themes: Poltical drama a study of dialectics

‘Quite a number of people with very little, and even a total lack of knowledge or theoretical training joined the movement because of its practical significance and its practical successes. ‘If you must unite, Marx wrote to the party leaders, then enter into agreements to satisfy the practical aims of the movement, but do not allow any bargaining over principle, do not make “concessions” in questions of theory. This was Marx’s idea, and yet there are people among us who strive — in his name — to belittle the significance of theory! Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.’

Lenin, What is to be Done?

Nigel was born in 1959. He had lived a life variously described as ‘colourful’ or ‘checkered’ until he made the turn to both serious academic study and creative writing. As his G.P. of many years standing has said, “Your writing and studying are your therapy Nigel. They are what saved you.’ He has gained since 1988: BA (Open) Political & Social Science, BA Humanities with Creative Writing, MA in English, MA in Creative Witing, MA in English Literature. He writes poetry, prose-fiction, essays on literature, politics, economics, psychology and philosophy. This volume contains poetry and prose fiction as well as well as some political and literary criticism.  After leaving the University his writing will be sustained by Chipmunkapublishing, This volume is a study of dialectics.

Published: 2026
Pages: 362
Key Themes: Mental Health, Depression, Bipolar, Manic Depression, love

Description

Book description

Claudette and Jon, is a sometimes light hearted, sometimes serious look at mental health provision in the early 1980’s. The two main protagonists are in love, they meet at Stigwood Mental Hospital. It is important to stress this is a work of fiction, even Jon who is telling the tale (it is in the first person), does not necessarily hold the same views as the author. If, having read the novel, one comes away thinking the action of the services was poor, then we may also find that true of Jon’s behavior. I am told the buzz word is auto-fiction, that is fiction with a nod to autobiography. Certainly, having suffered severely with my mental health, and having been hospitalised on many occasions, I think I am more than qualified to write this text. If you find at some point this work to be humorous, I shall be vindicated, the phrase rom.com. comes to mind. So relax, and let me take you into the world of Banes Mental Institution.

About the author

Martin Williams, me, was born on the 4th of December 1960. I was brought up in a well-to-do middle class family, my father was latterly an area manager for a tools firm. He sadly died very young, which had a lasting effect on myself and the rest of the family. While I have always felt I would be able to write, I didn’t start seriously until I was forty plus, at the turn of the millenium. My first novella was published by Chipmunka in 2008 and was called The Pearl Diver’s Saliva. I have made various inroads into higher education but have never completed a degree. Like Jon in “the world and his oyster” I have continued to paint and draw throughout my life, and did a part/time course at the Bristol School of Art. The “oyster” took two years to write, but I think you will find it worth the effort!

Published: 2026
Pages: 40
Key Themes: Mental Health, Depression, Bipolar, Manic Depression, Question EVERTHING, belive NOTHING

Description

Andrew Aldred has had a full and active life.  He has been a champion of the rights of mentally ill people for a number of years now.  This is his twentieth book as a mentally ill author.  It offers a perspective on his own life and some commonsense views on the world and its problems at the moment.

Extract

Haters
We all have our share of haters.
Whoever we are and whatever we do.
And I am so glad Nigel Farage
Has people that hate him as well?
I get pestered by people on the telephone.
And people on the internet because of what I say.
But I do not pay them much attention.
And they end up going away without a result.
It always takes two to start a fight.
I am entitled to my point of view.
As is everybody in this country?
But I do not have to go to court.
Or send somebody around to do them in
If I am not going to be able to get on with someone
The best thing I can do is leave them alone.

Published: 2026
Pages: 284
Key Themes: Poltical drama an insight into imperislism

‘A work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity.’

– RAINER MARIA RILKE.

‘I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.’

• SYLVIA PLATH.

Nigel was born in 1959. He had lived a life variously described as ‘colourful’ or ‘checkered’ until he made the turn to both serious academic study and creative writing. As his G.P. of many years standing has said, “Your writing and studying are your therapy Nigel. They are what saved you.’ He has gained since 1988: BA (Open) Political & Social Science, BA Humanities with Creative Writing, MA in English, MA in Creative Witing, MA in English Literature. He writes poetry, prose-fiction, essays on literature, politics, economics, psychology and philosophy. This volume contains poetry and prose fiction as well as well as some political and literary criticism.  After leaving the University his writing will be sustained by Chipmunkapublishing.

Published: 2025

Key Themes: relationships, adoption, family, strength

Description

Just like my birth mother and my birth son since I take regular antipsychotic prescribed medication.

I have currently been on a CTO community treatment order for over one year. I am hoping my local 198, Contemporary Arts submit four pieces of my artwork to the 2026 Koestler Arts.

My unapologetic Apple addiction and my commitment as an investor with passive income portfolio via Freetrade app keeps a smile on my face.

I am grateful to the United Kingdom taxpayers for allowing my rent to be paid to Brixton housing cooperative… and of course paying for my antipsychotic tablets which I am supervised via WhatsApp video to take daily. I have solely on single person income based Jobseeker’s Allowance Universal credit for approximately five years. I hope to have raised my dividends enough with the next three years so that I don’t have to claim state pension at sixty seven. I am working hard and cooperating with my to do list journal work coach towards that outcome. That’s my plan.

This artwork is a continuation of my mental wealth recovery.

I am a openly lesbian Conservative Politician who lives in Brixton, London UK, rides a Brompton bicycle and uses Apple products. I have two mental health diagnosis and was the Time to Change poster girl. I am the mother of a teenaged son. I am a English Quaker and a Freemason. I am in the midst of studies with Open University. I am the director of SEE Stewart Equal Education Limited; which offers IT eduction for folk who live, work and play in Brixton. Initially I aim for the profits to establish a Care Leavers Motivational Retreat and make regular donations to Britain’s first LGBTQ Homeless Night Shelter and The Albert Kennedy Trust. I am a Stonewall UK ambassador and work full time for the Homelessness Charity Thames Reach. I aim to build and establish a LGBTQ inclusive Quaker Meeting House combined with Community / Advice Centre in Guy’s Hill, Waterford, St Mary’s in Jamaica.

Published: 2026
Pages: 284
Key Themes: Poltical drama a fantastic insight into Imperialism

Nigel was born in 1959. He had lived a life variously described as ‘colourful’ or ‘checkered’ until he made the turn to both serious academic study and creative writing. As his G.P. of many years standing has said, “Your writing and studying are your therapy Nigel. They are what saved you.’ He has gained since 1988: BA (Open) Political & Social Science, BA Humanities with Creative Writing, MA in English, MA in Creative Witing, MA in English Literature. He writes poetry, prose-fiction, essays on literature, politics, economics, psychology and philosophy. This volume contains poetry and prose fiction as well as well as some political and literary criticism.  After leaving the University his writing will be sustained by Chipmunkapublishing.