Books published by publisher JJ Maxwell

This story’s quite different than others told by the bard’s of ole Eire. Yes the story must be told so that you humans can understand one of the great mysteries of our land. There is more to the world than what the eye can see. Generations of Irish have always known of the other race of beings that live side by side with mortals, but are most of the time, invisible.For example the fairy world, fallen angels they are. Most of ya may think they’re beautiful little creatures all flyin around doin nuthin but good, pfff. They’re ta be feared, but we must respect them. Keep them happy and they’ll leave you and yer family alone. Never disturb a fairy mound, that’s where the king would be. You’ll rue the day and they’ll take their revenge if ya start trouble with their king.The same goes for the leprechauns. Some say we’re solitary creatures, well of course we are. We are professionals at staying away from humans and we don’t travel in groups. But we’re smarter than most, how many humans do you know that have ever caught a leprechaun? That’s what I thought. Though we do like our tricks on mortals, but it’s all in fun. We’re sociable creatures. We have families and troubles just like mortals do. But I must say we have a better way of solvin our problems, we have magic. Our world and yours will never meet, but that doesn't mean we’re not still here in good ole Ireland, have been for centuries. We were here long before the Celts arrived. Now enough said. This is a tale about family, tradition, and magic. If you find a bit of resemblance between you and us, well, then we’ll find we have something in common, like magic. What could be better than that?

Helen James is now 11 years old and studying hard so that she can attend the Church-in-the-Woods Academy at the start of the next academic year.The ‘Visitant’ Hyming comes and collects Helen to take her back to the ‘Visitants’ home cloud.The ‘Visitants have discovered an object streaking across the universe which appears to be some form of space vehicle but it is frozen and so are the occupants. It is Helen’s task to discover what the problem is with this vehicle and how she can help the crew get back to their place of origin.What surprises Helen is that this space vehicle comes from the Milky Way Galaxy.

Helen James & Saving Father Christmas the latest book in the Helen James series of children’s science fiction adventure stories (7 – 15 year old).Helen is taken to Lapand, the planet where Father Christmas actually lives. He is in trouble and without Helen’s help he would not be visiting Earth this Christmas or any other of the planets across the universe, for their children’s special days.Helen was at a stage of her young life where she no longer believed in Father Christmas but she was soon to discover that not only did he exist but so did the many others in the folklores surrounding his existence.Helen meets the Yule Lads who visit all the children in the 12 days before Christmas to see if they are being good. Helen met the Faerie and their leader Little Rose. The Faerie’s make the ‘fairy dust’ which is reportedly scattered on the roofs of the homes of good children so that Father Christmas knows where to leave presents.Helen also meets up with the Tomte, the elves and finally Rudolf and the reindeers. Others within the various folklores surrounding Father Christmas also pop up within Helen’s adventure.

The 'Visitants' have a problem when Jawake, one of their 'Goods’, has gone missing.One of the ‘Visitants’ - Weting had been sent to find him so that he can be taken across to the other side of the universe to save millions of beings but he could not be found.Zacred, the ‘Visitants’ leader, sends Hyming to fetch Helen James to see if she can discover what had happened to Jawake.Helen is taken to Jawake’s planet and starts her search where Jawake was last seen, the Market Place. Helen is given a sword to help protect her. At first she says ‘No’ but it was obvious that all the beings on this planet carry weapons of various kinds so Helen reluctantly accepted the sword.Little did Helen realise but The Ruby Sword has magical properties and these were to help her in her quest to find Jawake.