Books with author Ian Patrick Williams

For most teenagers adolescence means zits and mood swings, for Will Hawkins it means dealing with ghosts. After nearly drowning as a baby, he comes back to life with the ability to see the dead. He's on the point of turning thirteen, unaware that his life is about to change for ever, only his grandfather knows what awaits those like Will who are able to travel the shadowy realms between the living and the dead.Will's about to find himself thrown into the dark, scary and often crazy world of the afterlife where he'll meet the ghosts of Shakespeare, Elvis, an army of Roman soldiers, an 18th century highwayman and a hundred year old killer. Not forgetting the none too friendly spirit of Adolf Hitler.Follow Will on his adventures as he treks through haunted hospitals and fights zombie chickens.

Five years have passed since the first wave of Dead ones-those that walk among the living, hungering for flesh. Now, The Patrol provides for the people in The Areas, as long as stringent rules are followed. After a close encounter with a Dead one, sixteen year old Claire Roberts begins to question everything she's been taught about The Patrol, the Dead ones, and her place in the world. Hunger: The Dead Novelettes No. 1 is the first in a five book novelette series. The second installment, Hunted: The Dead Novelettes No. 2 is now available on Amazon.

After the abrupt loss of someone dear to her, Claire Roberts feels more alone than ever. She throws herself into Hunting, still optimistic about a way out of marrying a man she barely knows. But when her new family offers luxuries that she hasn't experienced since Dead ones roamed the streets, Claire is faced with a choice: live a life with her head under the sand, or find her own way. Hunted: The Dead Novelettes No. 2 is the second in a five book novelette series. The first, Hunger: The Dead Novelettes No. 1 can be found on Amazon.

If you were Mark, how would you feel? You're twelve and about to play in the biggest game of your life. Wilko the PE teacher reckons you might be good enough to play for England one day. Maybe.Then your father wants to be back in your life. He was famous once, nearly a good dad once. Kicked out of his band and kicked out of home, he’s promising things will be different. Again.Then your grandfather crashes his motorbike and ends up in ER and you don't think things could get worse, not until Wilko makes you centre forward over the brilliant, popular and on-form Tom Hewitt. Hewitt's not happy and neither is his brother, the school bully.It’s match day. Your feet have turned to lead. Your granddad’s in Intensive Care. Your dad’s turned up to watch you play. Two nil down at half-time...No pressure…

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Excerpt from Dina, or Familiar Faces, Vol. 1 of 3I began to suspect that her case was not so hopeless as he supposed it. Her apparent attempt to drown her child weighed little with me. It appeared to me by no means certain that the lady's reputation for daftness might not have helped the milkmaid's imagination to colour the act of simply bathing the boy. Using the privilege of a medical attendant, I argued the point with Sir Angus, and by and by, when the remembrance of happy days spent with his wife in the first years of their marriage softened him, I prevailed so far as to determine him to institute a careful and special inquiry into the state of his wife's mind, with a view to her return home, should that be found possible.Already she had been shut up for more than a year, and I was not, I confess, without misgivings that the confinement might have brought her mind, however sane originally, into the very state it was designed to cure; for a sane person conscious of being considered mad by every one he comes in contact with must run considerable risk of being driven distracted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Dina, or Familiar Faces, Vol. 2 of 3The library being the quietest room on the ground floor, Calvert was taken to it. They laid him carefully on a sofa. He was still quite insensible, and it did not appear that anything could be done to relieve him until, at least, the arrival of the doctor. The girls continued, however, to keep his head cool by occasionally moisten ing it with a sponge dipped in vinegar and water.Mr. Grange, who had met the procession in the avenue, felt Archer's pulse, and gravely expressed a hope that the stupor might gradually pass off. He helped to draw the sofa to the most convenient spot, and to adjust the cushions. Marian, who was proud of him at all times, almost forgot the patient for a moment in admiring the facility with which her massive, and not unfrequently boisterous father adapted his strength to the occasion. He moved Archer into the easiest position with the utmost gentleness, and was quite as tender in his touch as the girls themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Dina, or Familiar Faces, Vol. 2 of 3The library being the quietest room on the ground floor, Calvert was taken to it. They laid him carefully on a sofa. He was still quite insensible, and it did not appear that anything could be done to relieve him until, at least, the arrival of the doctor. The girls continued, however, to keep his head cool by occasionally moisten ing it with a sponge dipped in vinegar and water.Mr. Grange, who had met the procession in the avenue, felt Archer's pulse, and gravely expressed a hope that the stupor might gradually pass off. He helped to draw the sofa to the most convenient spot, and to adjust the cushions. Marian, who was proud of him at all times, almost forgot the patient for a moment in admiring the facility with which her massive, and not unfrequently boisterous father adapted his strength to the occasion. He moved Archer into the easiest position with the utmost gentleness, and was quite as tender in his touch as the girls themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.