Published: 2024
Pages: 154
Key Themes: Mental Health,

Description

About the Author

John Tucker was born in London in 1982. He graduated from Lancaster University in 2009 and is now based in Cumbria at the foot of the oldest fell, Black Combe.

ISBN: 978-1-78382-7077
Published: 2024
Pages: 154
Key Themes: Mental Health,

Description

About the Author

John Tucker was born in London in 1982. He graduated from Lancaster University in 2009 and is now based in Cumbria at the foot of the oldest fell, Black Combe.

Published: 2026
Pages: 207
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: 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: 28
Key Themes: Children affected by parental mental illness, Emotional wellbeing and anxiety support

Description

Sometimes worries can feel too big to carry alone.

When a young boy struggles to understand his dad’s schizophrenia, his world begins to feel uncertain, frightening, and overwhelming. But with the help of Bob the Guru and a collection of special worry stones, he slowly learns healthy ways to express his feelings, calm his fears, and understand that he is not alone.

Through warmth, kindness, and simple coping tools, this beautifully illustrated story helps children explore anxiety, mental health, and emotional resilience in an age-appropriate and reassuring way.

Bob the Guru and the Worry Stones is designed to help families, educators, and mental health professionals open supportive conversations about difficult emotions and parental mental illness.

Perfect for:

Children affected by parental mental illness

Emotional wellbeing and anxiety support

Schools and therapeutic settings

Social and emotional learning

Encouraging healthy coping skills

A compassionate story about courage, understanding, and finding comfort during difficult times.

Published: 2026
Pages: 28
Key Themes: Emotional wellbeing discussions

Description

Where’s Mommy?

When a little girl loses her mum, her world suddenly feels confusing, heavy, and full of emotions she cannot explain.

Then she meets Mabel the Feelings Fairy.

Together, they explore her precious memories using beautiful coloured sands, with each colour representing a different feeling – love, sadness, anger, fear, hope, and happiness. As she learns to understand her emotions, she discovers that healing does not mean forgetting the people we love.

This gentle and beautifully illustrated children’s book offers a compassionate way to begin conversations about grief, suicide loss, memories, and emotional wellbeing.

Created to support children, families, schools, and therapists, Mabel the Feelings Fairy encourages emotional expression, resilience, and hope through warmth, imagination, and understanding.

Perfect for:

Children experiencing grief or loss

Emotional wellbeing discussions

Schools and counselling settings

Families navigating difficult conversations

Social and emotional learning

A heartfelt story about love, memories, and finding light after loss.

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: 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: 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: 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.