Books with author N. D. Wilson

Gallen and Ceilidh lead normal everyday lives... well as normal and everyday as possible for two orphans living in a remote Scottish village. All that is about to change when they discover they have a past nestled in the magical realm of Wyv. As they find themselves kidnapped by a mysterious, albeit a bit confused, stranger and transported to the Royal Court of Wyveryn to fulfil their destiny.After meeting ‘The Three’, Slainthe, Clavical and Thorne, three brothers who are legendary Knights, and enrolling in Orleon Spires, the training establishment of the realm, soon Gallen and Ceilidh discover that all is not what it seems in Wyv. Join Gallen, Ceilidh and their friend Toby, as they meet knights, pirates, golems and dragons and explore the magical land of Wyv. This is where the adventure begins...

A year has passed since Percy Fitz ran way from his family cabin in Pan Woods and found his way to the underground kingdom of Aurora. All along he knew he would have to return to his parents sometime and some way, but how that was going to happen he couldn't figure out. As he sat alone on Pyrite Point and gazed out over Aurora Lake he was puzzling, again, on what to do. What he didn't know was at that very moment Glaucus, necromancer of the Satyr Clan, and his archenemy, was putting into action a plan designed to destroy both Percy and his family!

Percy Fitz gazed at the mountains that loomed before him as he stood on the deck of his family's cabin. He longed to explore them, but his mother wouldn't allow it. She wouldn't allow him to do hardly anything. Whatever he did do, he got in trouble for. Those mountains attracted him as nothing else in his life had. He didn't fit in his family, but he felt he could fit somewhere in those mountains. Someday when he was older he was determined to explore them. He knew they held adventure and excitement. What he could never have imagined is that within days he would be not only in them, but under them, and off on an unimaginable adventure. It would be an adventure that included talking mountain lions, a hidden kingdom, a king that proclaimed Percy the answer to a riddle, a magical sword, a beautiful princess, killer beetles the size of cows, and a variety of menacing creatures only mentioned in ancient books. Was he up to this much adventure? Was this the place where he could truly fit in?

Teale Tales is set in the land of Wyveryn. The story evolves round Gallen and Ceilidh Teale and their friend Toby, who are orphans in present day. Gallen and Ceilidh have a past nestled in the realm of Wyv, Wyv is a kingdom hidden from the outside world in early times by a wizard determined to save a realm from civil war. The children stay in the remote Scottish village of Drumclog with their evil uncle McPritchard during the holidays. During term time they attend Mearns Orphanage council run school.Asphalt the royal advisor comes to modern day Mearns through a portal from Wyv to take the children back to the royal city of Wyv to fulfill their destiny. The journey is disrupted by a brooding dark threat within the realm and the enemy within.The book explores the land and many colourful characters are met, from the three knight brothers; Slainthe, Clavical and Thorne, to the most heroic accident-prone pirate of the eight seas; Captain Ned T Nitrate. There is corruption in the realm and the children are enrolled in Orleon Spire, the learning establishment of Wyv's capital city Wyveryn. There are many surprises along the way and excitement as the two sides of the empire clash to make there own lead the country.The book culminates in the final battle between Gallen and Svengaard the Dragon on the side of Glistene the Ice queen and her army of molten men, and Tawny, Gallens classmate and pawn of the dark side, on the side of the corrupted empire.

Escaping the Measureless Cavern should have left Percy and Princess Portia free from Aztecs forever! But then the mountain loin, Puma, arrives in Aurora with worrying news. Rufus McGee, Percy's best friend in Pan Woods, is missing! Only Chitty Mantooth knows where he is, and he isn't telling. Percy and Portia finally convince him to tell and then find themselves in more trouble than ever before. They discover that there is truth to the legend of a hidden treasure in the mountains near Pan Woods, only the treasure isn't in the mountains! They find that there is another entrance to the Measureless Cavern, and the Aztecs have found their way out -- not only found their way out, but are determined to reestablish their Aztec Empire in the Outworld! What is even more chilling is the fact that the Aztec Army has an advanced weapon that not even the U.S. Army can match.

In the underground kingdom of Aurora some questions are being asked: What happened to Princess Portia's mother? Why is Codexus, the librarian, so intrigued by the word "Aztlan"? Can King Priam solve the "Down and Back" riddle? The answers to these questions lead to an even greater question: Can Percy Fitz find a way into the Measureless Cavern? Percy, this Outworld boy, is asked to do what no one in the 600 year history of Aurora has ever been able to do. He is asked to descend the Endless Falls and enter a cavern only known to the Auroraeans through speculation and myth. Thus begins the third book in the Adventures of Percy Fitz Series, with Percy, Princess Portia and Puma, the mountain lion, finding themselves in yet more danger.

A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration. Wilson's protagonist, witness to Cook's brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cook's second expedition to the southern hemisphere, and penned a famous account of the journey. Resolution moves back and forth across time, to depict Forster's time with Cook, and his extraordinary later life, which ended with his death in Paris, during the French Revolution. Wilson once again demonstrates his great powers as a master craftsman of the historical and the human in this richly evoked novel, which brings to life the real and the extraordinary, brilliantly drawing together a remarkable cast of characters in order to look at human endeavour, ingenuity and valour.