Ian Johnstone didn't just survive childhood trauma —he dismantled it.Victim, Survivor to Thriver is not a memoir dressed up as inspiration. It's raw, darkly funny, and brutally honest.A lived account of what it takes to move from victim, to survivor, to something stronger. No clichés. No soft edges.Just practical tools, hard truths, and a clear path forward —for anyone ready to stop Surviving and start taking control.

A glorious epic fantasy in the grand tradition of CS Lewis and Philip Pullman, and a major publishing event, The Mirror Chronicles will take you into another world, and on the adventure of your lifetime…Half of your soul is missing.The lost part is in the mirror.And unless Sylas Tate can save you, you will never be whole again.Sylas Tate leads a lonely existence since his mother died. But then the tolling of a giant bell draws him into another world known as t...

Hippolyta was a great Queen and a much-feared warrior, enslaving men to serve her and her army of Amazon women, and leading the army against anyone who threatened to disrupt her realm in the true traditions of her ancestors whose exploits had become legendary. Respected and feared by all, she was furious to hear that a large detachment of Attila the Hun's army was looting and pillaging her villages.As she set about tracking down the evil Hun, she was startled to come across a small...

Part memoir, part self-help, and all truth, this book charts one man's journey from deep trauma through survival to something more vital: thriving.Told with unflinching honesty and laced with dry humour, Ian Johnstone dismantles the clichés of academic and pseudo psychology that promotes the commercial recovery culture and survivor identity. Instead, he offers readers grounded tools for facing the past without being defined by it. Through personal stories, often visceral commentary...

After the Tuscan Sunset is the brutally funny and sharp-witted counter-narrative to the romanticized Italian dream popularised by books such as, Under The Tuscan Sun.

From 1960 to 1990, islands across the Pacific gained independence or self-government. In the years following this, Ian Johnstone and Michael Powles interviewed the Pacific people in key leadership positions in the lead-up to and achievement of independence, many of whom became well-known in the Pacific and more widely. This book presents a nation-by-nation history of this change from being colonial subjects to citizens of Pacific nations from the point of view of the leaders involved. Acco...

Lord Douglas Ahearn Stuart (Ahearn = Scottish Gaelic for Lord of the horses) has now turned thirty but still at war with the bad part of the Clan Douglas. James Douglas is in prison but his three cousins that Ahearn crossed and lost them their jobs are still out for vengeance. They once again pick on Morag (Lady Stuart) dragging her name through the mud, but she has a general fighting her case that surprises Ahearn.Andrew is still translating the diary of the first Lord Douglas Ahe...

As told in the "The Dunce At The Back Of The Class", William was an unwanted child. He was mistreated, beaten, mentally abused by his father, his brother and by his teachers, and yet he fought back – not physically, but with a sold determination to succeed that led to him joining the Parachute Regiment and, against all odds, passing through the training to take his place among the elite Special Forces.This second book tells of his time as a soldier, his postings to trouble spots an...

Peace had arrived once more to the port and village of Hippolyta. The rogue Vandal army had been destroyed, and Vinzenz the evil commander in the Vandal army had been burned at the stake the previous night. Queen Echephyle and Queen Hippolyte had started their punishment for defying Hippolyta, Queen of all Amazons. They almost got Danilo the barbarian and Queen Andromache killed by not affording them an escort when returning from the imminent battle in the east.As it was every morn...

William was an unwanted child. He was mistreated, beaten, mentally abused by his father, his brother and by his teachers. Yet, over time, William learned to look after himself and to stand up against those who refused to give him the chances that every child deserves. The lessons he had to learn for himself were not easy, often painful, and frequently leading him into danger, and his friends were not always the most level headed when it came to planning their next escapade. Perhaps William...

The Cameron men had abused women for centuries, and bullied and assaulted anyone else standing in their way. But ever since 1830 when one of them was executed in France for assaulting and murdering a young woman, they had been under a curse. Now, the end of the family line was in sight and the curse was about to become active. The remaining men of the family would suffer. Supernatural forces were at work, taking them again and again as they slept to suffer pain and torment at the hands of ...

Douglas was a Stuart, from a long line of Stuarts, and proud of it. Living with his adoptive parents Lord and Lady Stanley, his mother's cousins, after losing his mother when he was only three years old, Douglas had everything he could possibly need, and more.Not only were his adoptive parents wealthy, but also Douglas had inherited substantial assets himself, which came under his control as soon as he was eighteen. More interestingly, his mother had left him a small wooden box ful...