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DescriptionThis 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, life as a single parent and terrorism.About the AuthorI have been in Mental Health Services since 1985, when I had a huge mental breakdown after serving in the Falklands with the army. Since then my life has been something of a rollercoaster of mental illness until meeting my wife Jane seven years ago.I have been in and out of hospital from 1985 until 2009. I had an illness which I attributed to my father and resulted in me stabbing him in 1997 and going to the Edenfield Unit in Prestwich Hospital for 6 years. This is when I started to write poetry to keep myself sane and give me something to focus on.

DescriptionThis 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 family after stabbing his father twenty years ago.About the AuthorI have been in Mental Health Services since 1985, when I had a huge mental breakdown after serving in the Falklands with the army. Since then my life has been something of a rollercoaster of mental illness until meeting my wife Jane seven years ago.I have been in and out of hospital from 1985 until 2009. I had an illness which I attributed to my father and resulted in me stabbing him in 1997 and going to the Edenfield Unit in Prestwich Hospital for 6 years. This is when I started to write poetry to keep myself sane and give me something to focus on.

DescriptionThis 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 single parent and terrorism.About the AuthorI have been in Mental Health Services since 1985, when I had a huge mental breakdown after serving in the Falklands with the army. Since then my life has been something of a rollercoaster of mental illness until meeting my wife Jane seven years ago.I have been in and out of hospital from 1985 until 2009. I had an illness which I attributed to my father and resulted in me stabbing him in 1997 and going to the Edenfield Unit in Prestwich Hospital for 6 years. This is when I started to write poetry to keep myself sane and give me something to focus on.

DescriptionThis 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 the AuthorI have been in Mental Health Services since 1985, when I had a huge mental breakdown after serving in the Falklands with the army. Since then my life has been something of a rollercoaster of mental illness until meeting my wife Jane seven years ago.I have been in and out of hospital from 1985 until 2009. I had an illness which I attributed to my father and resulted in me stabbing him in 1997 and going to the Edenfield Unit in Prestwich Hospital for 6 years. This is when I started to write poetry to keep myself sane and give me something to focus on.

DescriptionThis 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 AuthorAndrew 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 suffering from a variety of mental problems and getting a medical discharge. He got an education after leaving the army and has worked as a mentally ill man in several jobs. He is in remission from cancer and hopes to make a full recovery. He spent twelve years in secure mental hospital and some time in prison after stabbing his father in 1997.

DescriptionThis 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 author tries see the world from the standpoint of other family members and is so doing achieves a sense of atonement and forgiveness. This book is by an author who has experienced severe mental illness and has an ability and insight to reflect on his past despite the enduring side effects of his medication which both control the illness and impeded some of his thinking abilities to a small extent.