John Wilcox

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2004
  • Latest Book:
    April 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Simon Fonthill

Last Stand at Majuba Hill (Apr-2007)
The Diamond Frontier (Oct-2007)
The Guns of El Kebir (May-2008)
Siege of Khartoum (Nov-2009)
The Shangani Patrol (Apr-2010)
The War of the Dragon Lady (Apr-2012)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Horns of the Buffalo

    British redcoats confront the Zulus at Rorke’s Drift.

    In 1879, the British redcoats are universally regarded as the finest fighting force in the world. Among them is Lieutenant Simon Fonthill, dispatched to South Africa with much to prove: for Co...

  • The Road to Kandahar

    The year is 1879, and Captain Simon Fonthill is ready for another challenge. Having survived the Zulu onslaught at Rorke's Drift, he is sent to the North-West Frontier - India's border with Afghanistan - and charged with a dangerous mission. Fonth...

  • Last Stand at Majuba Hill

    Simon Fonthill

    In the fight for South Africa, who will be the first to fall? The year is 1881, and General George Pomeroy-Colley, commander of the British forces in Natal, is planning to halt a rebellion. He's convinced the Transvaal Boers -- mere farmers -- can po...

  • The Diamond Frontier

    Simon Fonthill

    It's 1880, and the atmosphere is explosive in the South African province of the Transvaal. The discovery of diamonds has bred greed and violence, while British forces contend with murderous bePedi tribesmen and subversive Boer farmers.

    Forme...

  • The Guns of El Kebir

    Simon Fonthill

    1882. Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley is under pressure. News of an uprising against the British powers in Egypt has reached London, and he must react decisively and forcefully. But there is little time to assemble an army and, for his camp...

  • Siege of Khartoum

    Simon Fonthill

    1884. Queen Victoria’s hero General Gordon is under siege. Hoards of Dervish warriors, loyal to the Mahdi, the Sudanese warlord and Messiah, are baying for British blood. With a small army and diminishing supplies, Gordon fears Khartoum will fall. ...

  • The Shangani Patrol

    Simon Fonthill

    This gripping new military adventure featuring Simon Fonthill brilliantly depicts one of the last and most tragic of all battles in the 'Scramble for Africa'.

    1893. In the African Cape, recovering from the loss of their child, ex-captain an...

  • The War of the Dragon Lady

    Simon Fonthill

    The year is 1900 and China is plunged into barbaric chaos. The Boxers, a cult of young peasants who blame the foreign barbarians living in their country -- particularly the missionaries -- for the nation's ills, are rampaging through the country,...

  • Starshine

    1914. Outnumbered British forces are desperately trying to hold off the oncoming German soldiers in France. Star shells fly high into the night, illuminating the chaos, violence and death taking place in the French trenches below.Like so many other m...



  • Fire Across the Veldt

    1900. South Africa. Simon Fonthill, along with his wife Alice, old friend Jenkins, and tracker Mzingeli, is travelling across the continent to Pretoria to meet with General Kitchener. When their train is derailed by hostile Boer forces the quartet ar...

  • Pirates - Starboard Side!

    Simon Fonthill, his wife Alice and trusty '352' Jenkins are bound from the Chinese port of Tientsin for Durban, South Africa at the urgent request of Kitchener. The rusty tub that is to take them across the sea does not inspire confidence and, more w...

  • Bayonets Along the Border

    North West India, 1897. Simon and Alice Fonthill are travelling with their old friend Jenkins to Marden, India for an anniversary party with the Guides Corps. But when they are ambushed on their journey, they realise that the land may not be as peace...

  • Treachery in Tibet

    1903. The British Empire has reached its probable apogee: so much of the world map is coloured red and the sun never set on its boundaries. But Lord Curzon, the ambitious Viceroy of India, has different views. Tibet, the mountainous region on the Raj...

  • Dust Clouds of War

    1914. Simon Fonthill, a fit 59-year-old, is visiting his farm in Northern Rhodesia when the Great War breaks out. With him, as always, is his wife Alice, but also his old comrade and former batman, 352 Jenkins, holidaying with them after the marriage...

  • The Black Rocks of Morwenstow

    1842. Joshua Weyland is languishing in America and desperate to return to England and his fiancé. He ships home on a small brig but when it founders on rocks off the coast of Cornwall and he narrowly escapes with his life, it's clear to him that the...

  • Donna Comes to Visit

  • The Black Rocks of Morwentstow

    1842. Joshua Weyland is languishing in America and desperate to return to England and his fiancé. He ships home on a small brig but when it founders on rocks off the coast of Cornwall and he narrowly escapes with his life, it's clear to him that the...

  • My Daughter Donna

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John Wilcox has published 18 books.

John Wilcox does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Black Rocks of Morwentstow, was published in April 2017.

The first book by John Wilcox, The Horns of the Buffalo, was published in September 2004.

Yes. John Wilcox has 1 series.
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