Books with author Jeff Wilson

This is an action-packed magical adventure guaranteed to enthral.After four cousins survive a terrifying storm at sea they arrive on Snapper Rock, a weird and wonderful island.Snapper Rock looks like paradise but it certainly isn’t. The islanders live in fear of sea snappers, huge vicious birds with razor-sharp teeth. They are also terrorised by the cruel and evil Fire King who forces everyone to work in terrible conditions in his underground caves.After one of the children mysteriously vanishes, the others set out to rescue her. During their search they meet some very curious characters and creatures, but they also discover a sinister plot which could have catastrophic consequences…

After the end of modern civilization, the world hangs in a dreadful balance.Humanity, giant beasts and aliens live together, all fighting to survive a wasteland littered with scars of the apocalypse. The Nuclear Knights - humanity’s last defenders - disappeared five years ago to parts unknown.Now, the last remaining piece of human society on a space station plots to reclaim the Earth for themselves. Seeking help from the reclusive heroes to survive the coming war, the last survivors of mankind soon face a deadly last stand that will forever change the future of their world.NOTE: This is the large print edition of Nuclear Knights, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

This is the third book in the Lion’s Head trilogy; The first was Behind the Lion’s Head and the second was Beyond the Lion’s HeadAll of the three books can be read as separate from each other but the B&B for extra ordinaries is the base for all of them and they share some characters.Ida was born into a family of extra ordinary people, often referred to as gifted. Her mother is a cook in the B&B and her father is the gardener. Her mother’s gift is to read minds, her father’s to cast spells of protection and safety. Ida’s gift is far rarer, she is a predictor, seeing tragedies, seeing danger. This is the story of how these gifts affect her and those around her. She is set a task in which she will have to trust a stranger and use the power of her gift to save lives far away from the safety of home. The lives at risk are those of innocents and only she can save them.

This is the second book in the Lion’s Head series but can be understood without reading the first book. This book is about Jakey, feisty on the surface but like most young teenagers there are underlying insecurities. Taken out of her comfort zone in a boarding school for the extra ordinaries, with their gifts and spells, she moves into a flat in Brighton with her mother and her partner, an ordinary. When the partnership fails, she and her mother flee to Yorkshire where her mother has secured a job in a B&B, thanks to her mother’s solicitor, an old family friend.The B&B is a sanctuary for the gifted, they holiday there without fear. A few years back, the owners Lisbeth and Marlow had transformed the huge attic to take in gifted teenagers when they are unable to holiday with their parents. There was even a side business for during the winter season, after the New Year, when they catered for wedding receptions. Lisbeth’s father had mysteriously disappeared when she was two years old and she was still holding on to the hope that one day they would be reunited.This story has moments of happiness and moments of deep despair and tragedy for Jakey as it goes backwards and forwards between Lisbeth’s house with it’s protective spells and the B&B where she works in the beautiful gardens with Joe. The story travels outside of these boundaries, evil always close, as she realises that dark forces are threating her and the person she has befriended but who is in deadly peril.