New E-Books From Chipmunka Publishing:

Here's the latest crop of work from the authors of Chipmunka Publishing:


Meeting Mister Mephistopheles - Zekria Ibrahimi
This is a play about the entry into Hell, about the agony that has no relief, about the distress that cannot be soothed, about the pain that will never be cured...

It is set in the aloofness of a Cambridge college, during the turbulence of the 1960’s...

A new undergraduate, Ayub Peters, finds that he is going all too rapidly mad in the environment of cold Cambridge snobbery. Demons are everywhere, damnation emerges in each encounter, and his strange and shadowy college tutor, Mister Mephistopheles, orchestrates the student’s descent into psychosis and suicide...

But perhaps Cambridge actually is a nest of devils, and, through his so- called ‘schizophrenia’, Ayub Peters is discovering the real cruel dark core of this seemingly glittering university...

Let us participate in insanity, and seem to find there...truth...


Rose Blood - Jarrad Dickson

Rose Blood: A Psychosis Induced Fantasy is sourced from the “literary” structures of psychosis, and develops them with the use of the imagination. It is the only one or one of the few of its kind, that of being wrought from mental illness, and not about mental illness.

It is about an alternate reality created by the author, whose source is Pandora, and she is a schizophrenic and Jarrad turns into God as he taps into this source and gains powers such as fire hair, space time continuum plane shifts, albino skin, etc that allow him to exist in outer space. The idea is that Mankind needs organic technology of their own bodies as well as outer body technology to be outer space creatures.

It posits a white space universe, with black stars. It is a fantasy novel, though short, and the main characters are Pandora, Jarrad Dickson and a mysterious woman named Rose Blood.

It has original settings and striking visual elements, and is a strange, dark fantasy and one of its kind in the very popular literary genre of Fantasy.


£500 a Line and Other Poems - Liz Bentley

£500 a line is a poetry book. The title of the book is a tongue-in-cheek response to the pressure of wining a £5000 writing commission from Shape (disability arts) as part of the Cultural Olympiad. The original ten-line poem ‘Comfortably’ was the starting point of the work. Liz performed the final piece at the Southbank in July 2009 as part of the London Literature Festival. The poems are about her experiences from winning the commission to its performance one year later. Themes of the work include her job as a therapist, being in therapy, relationships, separation, bereavement and having multiple sclerosis.

Other poems are work that she has been performing on the UK poetry/comedy/literature circuit for the last 6 years since her last book “Tales in the Deep End” published by Eatlatinanddie books in 2004.

“Refreshingly off the wall” “Liz is such an effortless writer” “very very funny” “priceless” “more constructive criticism of CBT please” Southbank audience


The Rollercoaster That Is My Life - Jacqueline Hume

This book was primarily written to allow those closest to the author to understand what goes on in her head when she is having an episode of hypo-mania and Depression. The book is filled with funny anecdotes, thought provoking statements and some poetry thrown in for good measure.


The Guns 'n' Roses Worker - Traveller - Marc Latham

Music can be your companion for all moods. While I now listen to a variety of music, in the 1980s I was serious about my rock music; it was like a religion to me. I therefore didn’t buy music outside of the rock genre. Fleetwood Mac was there when I was mellow; Pink Floyd when I was feeling down and alienated; and Metallica or Megadeth when I was manic.

In 1987 Guns N’ Roses released Appetite for Destruction and I was the first to buy and promote it amongst my friends. The band and the album just seemed to be a complete fit with my mind, beliefs, personality, life and ambitions: the songs told a tale of hobo travelling, nostalgia for better times and the search for more, partying excess, alienation from society, getting into trouble and paranoia.


The Other Side of The Mirror - Alanna Lea Wiest

A poetic journey that illustrates a life-long struggle with a serious illness. Poems of pain, hope and a love for life, all combine in a book of exquisite feeling and personal triumph.


The Schizophrenic Human Journeys Through The Baked Desert To Adore You - Sebastian Dravida Yohanan

This novel describes the story of Sebastian Yohanan, a schizophrenic child. Most schizophrenics see people or hear voices that are not real. Sebastian Yohanan has memories that are not real. He confuses his memories and lives in a parralel reality. This is his story


Defragmenting The Soul - John Sawkins

The reader will be faced by a number of challenges from the very start, for which a paradigm shift in his or her Weltanschauung may be required. Characters interact and join discussions across past, present and future time zones, both face-to-face and through the use of virtual reality devices. The dead communicate with the living and vice versa. They do this by meeting up inside Matthew’s head. Unless the reader has experienced a world where he or she can no longer differentiate between reality and fantasy, the blurring of the distinction between the two will be hard to imagine. Suffice it to say, that for some of us, our fantasy world is altogether more vivid, exciting and ‘real’ than our shared ‘reality’ with you normal people!


Altered Perceptions - Yvonne Stewart Williams

Altered Perception is an eighteen month daily journey from an acute psychiatric hospital admission prior to my 2009 acute psychiatric admission via HMP Holloway Women’s Prison.

This diary explores my lesbian sexuality, the parenting role of James, my young biological son in looked after foster care, and my support of a loved one with prostate cancer.

In this diary I reveal that for me it is not so much whether mental illness can be cured, but what one does in life in between each acute psychiatric episode. A kind of walking between the raindrops, until you get wet experience.


I Stood At The Edge of Space On a Tightrope - Elizabeth Oates

My book is about a journey about myself who used to live with various mental health problems and I now manage them so I can lead a successful healthy family lifestyle. It is a collection of poems I have written from the age of 16 to 30 (present). I thought my problems were quite normal and therefore just got on with life, but it was in 2009 when I thought crossing over to the spirit world would be painless and I could be on a cloud forever. I knew this was not quite right so I decided I wanted to manage my mental health issues.


Voices and Visions - Jarrad Dickson

Voices and visions are schizophrenia induced poems; they have stories and plots throughout them, pertaining to the visions and voices Jarrad had when he was psychotic. They are about extra-terrestrials, and Dilworth school and it is cannibalistic in the poetry, for Jarrad Dickson had delusions about cannibalism and saw his school staff eating brains and hearts of their students to be immortal.

Marilyn Manson is frequently in the poetry, and so is Tool’s lead singer Maynard James Keenan, and they meet in his bathroom and Maynard becomes cloned. There is a party, and Darth Vader rapes Marilyn Manson and Yoda is raped by Hone Heke. This is when Jarrad’s play comes to life for it was written in the fifth dimension, and the characters influenced his psychosis by coming to life and haunting him saying “I am an alien. I have a spaceship. I eat hearts to live, to thrive, he has to die!”

A girl named Luna is in the poetry, a former love interest of Jarrad Dickson’s who he met on a suicide site and who later committed suicide which was one of the reasons as well as alcoholism that Jarrad became psychotic.

The poetry is wrought from psychosis and its “plots” and is a work of phantasmagoria, and is straight from the brain, albeit a brain not functioning properly.


Voices in the Wilderness - Chris Hadland

Sol, a young man with his entire unblemished future ahead of him, has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Admitted to a less than therapeutic psychiatric ward, he finds himself surrounded by sedated, non-communicative individuals, and rapidly sinks into a state of mental decline. Seeking solace in his Jewish faith, Sol gradually becomes convinced that he isn’t just another casualty of the mental health system, but someone special, and not just anyone...


You'll Never Make a Hairdresser - Russell Paul Hughes

‘You’ll never make a hairdresser’ is an autobiography detailing the life of a young boy living on a deprived housing estate in Manchester and tracing his progression to the present day and the realisation of his dreams.

The novel includes many humorous experiences; the loss of his virginity to a wheelchair bound client, mobile hairdressing within the housing estate representing the culture and lifestyle of all involved, down to the very poignant moments on the loss of a dearly loved sister to cancer at the age of just 37.

The novel also explores the innermost thoughts and feeling of the author, not only his depression which resulted from the onset of epilepsy at the age of thirty but also on a deeply personal level when he realised that as a heterosexual husband and father he was living a lie.

Following these revelations he embarks on a journey of discovery which finally leads him to the confident and fulfilled gay businessman he is today.


Hang In There… Wherever “There” Is - Nicole Roberge

This compelling and poignant memoir tells about the journey through the disease of Anorexia, the recovery process, and all that comes with it—the hurt, hope and humor. After almost dying from the disease, and being neglected by the doctors, the author sought recovery and spent seven weeks at an inpatient facility. In her powerful story, she digs into the depths of Anorexia and describes how her simple diet and exercise program turned into a horrific eating disorder—one that controlled her life and forced her to go to the gym every day for four hours and reduce her diet to only fruit. After almost suffering from a heart attack and amazed that she was still alive, she knew she had to save herself and get treatment. Today, she is a survivor. By telling her story of the disease and recovery process, she not only educates the reader about eating disorders, but also shares with them a secret world unknown to many, and most importantly, that there is hope and recovery is possible.


Enclave - David Roscoe

The world is under threat from an alien race whose only goal is to extinguish all life capable of standing against them. Their methods are cruel and terrifying, their technology centuries ahead of those of Earth. But there is hope…

Two government agents, a psychotic killer, a crime lord and Timothy Bruce, a paranoid neurotic living in constant fear of everyday life, are brought together by a centuries old secret society hidden deep within the Earth. These five strangers are given access to miraculous technologies and unlimited resources with which they can save the world and change it forever.

But not everyone within the group is what he appears to be and before they can decide what to do with their new reality, they will need to overcome their own petty ambitions and root out the traitor within.


Passages from the Search for Eternal Love - Kelly Brown

Passages from the search for eternal love is a book of fiction about a community called Illigruum House and two women Eva and Rosa. Eva is an artist who has accepted being alone as a necessary artistic path. But when Rosa a beautiful and wise woman in her seventies invites Eva to join her on the course learning through love Rosa offers to show Eva her true path. Eva finds that through Rosa’a stories of love and a spiritual meeting in the caves of Bearn a new way of thinking about love, the concept of abundance, and a universal love that will change her life forever.