30 years ago, whilst I was still a Registered Mental Health Nurse working in the UK, I wrote a book based on my experiences. The book was written as a fiction which, ironically, turned out to be the only way I could tell the true story of life in the dreadful old psychiatric hospitals of the time. The book was published by Penguin (UK) in 1989 and optioned by the BBC.

The book follows Buster, a student nurse, as he exposes the reader to the appalling standards of care provided in a large, shabby psychiatric hospital that was built in the Victorian era as a “lunatic asylum”. There were over 100 of these hospitals spread across the UK when I wrote the book. Today, these institutions have all been decommissioned, demolished or re-purposed for other uses.

Jump forward 30 years and, thanks to the wonders of technology, I’m able to re-publish a 30th anniversary eBook edition of 'Buster's Fired a Wobbler - A week in a psychiatric hospital', which you can find by clicking on the following links:

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07YL7ZY8Z
https://books.apple.com/au/book/buste...
https://play.google.com/store/books/d...
https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/bust...