New Year - New Books!

The leading mental health publisher plows into 2010 at full steam with a fantastic selection of e-books having been released these past 2 weeks. Here's a look at Chipmunka's latest author releases:


I Am Not Intelligent - Oscarbound

This book ‘I am not intelligent’ gives importance to the mad, mentally ill, schizophrenia people to show them humanity and love than trying to make them brave and explaining the right thing to make them intelligent persons. When good time came they will become cured but until that we have to show them love and care as the mental illness disease not visible or understand by others like physical illness. Also the hearing voice disease was not accepted as disability in countries like India. There the doctors says it was a disease which will cured one day but not sure when it will cure.

This book is having a mixture of subjects that a general novel have. This is not only a psychological novel it was a secret scientific novel. Three generation story, poems, short story, SMS, affection, affair, the main characters regional famous people’s history, thrilling movements, not much lengthy and speedily moving novel. To create awareness of about mind control which is not accepted by the present world may be proved in future. I wish for all readers this book will be interesting and useful to their life’s. The main chapter is TALKING WITH VIP’S of the whole world as Balu, the main character was the idea and opinion giver to them. Everyone in the world must read it. The author wish to hear reader’s opinion about this book through the e-mail Id oscarbond @ rediffmail dot com


Stitched On Label - Steven Cowley

This book of poetry looks at the issues I have experienced with mental health and other issues I have been through. A gritty book, with honest poetry. The adversity is now over and the book ends with positive poems to show the turnaround I have achieved and the current stability. Even the longest journey starts with a single step.


Mariposa - Sarah Coggrave

Mariposa is a vivid, colourful and comprehensive account of Sarah Coggrave’s recovery from an eating disorder. Her art and writing paint an eclectic picture of a complex individual trying desperately to wrestle free from the evil voices inside her head. The book follows Sarah’s journey through hospital and then a specialist clinic as she totally transforms and rebuilds her life. Throughout she reflects with startling insight on the root of her problems and confesses her innermost thoughts and feelings. We hear the eating disorder speak...it is deafening in the beginning. However eventually it fades to little more than an inaudible whisper as Sarah finds her own voice


Broken Whole - Keith Adams

This violently colorful, devastatingly forthright recounting of the author’s search for self amidst the shards of mania, takes place almost exclusively over the course of the summer of the author’s forty-first year – set against the glittering background of the Corridor of Dreams, the swanky swathe of the West side of LA stretching from the Hollywood Hills to the boulevards of Beverly hill – with its tale of luxury goods, spiritual discovery, thrust for glory, brilliant ideas, not so brilliant ideas, fist-fights, arrest by the LAPD, and, ultimately, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. It asks if the gleaming personality chained up by mood stabilizers is the real self, and, if it is not, is there any such thing as a real self?

Bedlam and Other Stories - Mark Fleming

Mark Fleming’s debut novel ‘BrainBomb’ was published as a Chipmunka paperback in the summer of 2009, to rave reviews. Semi-autobiographical, it weaved a lurid diary of bipolar illness against a backdrop of historic fantasy and Edinburgh’s punk scene.

The short stories collected in Bedlam paint a broader picture. There are bipolar characters. There are others living with post-traumatic stress disorder. Or post-natal depression. Most cope with the stresses and shocks life throws at them. Some don’t, resorting to drugs, even contemplating suicide. There is violence in these tales but it is not connected to any medical condition. It is there, in society, and the perpetrators are far more likely not to have a mental condition.

What all the characters have in common is that they are ordinary people in sometimes extraordinary circumstances. If they have mental issues, there is nothing abnormal about them. It is simply because they are human.


A Glimpse of The Holy Through Bloodshot Eyes - Thomas McNeight

Tom McNeight has recently written a short, poignant book, which he has titled A Glimpse of the Holy Through Bloodshot Eyes. It is a book written primarily to expose to the general reading public a close up view of what life is like when one is living under the supervision of the mental health authorities and has to cope with being in a perpetually heavily medicated state of mind, essentially, one supposes, to prevent the sufferer of the mental illness from hurting himself and others. Tom tries to depict this syndrome in as clear and logical a way as he can. He tries, in his book, to show how he has survived the last thirty-five years hide bound by a crippling mental malaise and a health monitoring system imposed upon him by the authorities. He has attempted, through this book, to try to show to the reader what life is like on the outside of society.


A Mental Journey - Paul M F Smith

This is a story of four individuals battling anxiety, depression, agoraphobia and obssessive-compulsions. It covers their beginnings, how they came to where they are at the start of the story, and how they end up where they are at the end of the story, and the rocky road they travel inbetween, supporting and being there for each other as they come together to inform the wider public how it feels to suffer a mental illness and the stigmas that they carry. All the while they are fighting against their inner demons. This is a mixture of fact and fiction, though unsure of where one ends and another begins. It tries to cover the different elements of the characters troubles, and finishes on a positive note, still afflicted by mental illness, but all the better for the support of one another and teaching the general public on what it is like to live with a mental illness.


If We Win The Pools We Can Go To The Coronation - Pamela Pickton

Christmas was upon them in the village, and Gladys had not won the pools. It would seem that the yearly event had taken her, yet again, by surprise to see her at such a loss. Then, she had so much on her plate. And her children had to understand that she would do more for them, if only she could.

In the year of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11, two young girls are striving to pass the exam and win a place in the grammar school. Brenda battles alone in spite of Gladys, her scatty mother. Pat has a different home with more money, more encouragement. Her problem is something else; not something she can tell to anyone. "