John Wilson

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  • Bibliography:
    71 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1990
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Caught in Conflict Collection

1 - Germania: The Roman Empire 9 CE (Jul-2011)
2 - Where Soldiers Lie: India 1857 (Aug-2007)
3 - The Flags of War: Shiloh 1862 (Sep-2004)
4 - Battle Scars: Libby Prison 1863 (Jan-2005)
5 - Death on the River: Andersonville 1865 (Oct-2009)
6 - And in the Morning: Somme 1916 (Apr-2010)
7 - Lost in Spain: Spanish Civil War 1936 (May-2009)
8 - Four Steps to Death: Stalingrad 1942 (Sep-2005)
9 - Flames of the Tiger: Berlin 1945 (Jul-2012)

The Dinosaur Chronicles

1 - Velociraptor (May-2023)
2 - Hadrosaur (May-2023)
3 - Tyrannosaurus (May-2023)

The Heretic's Secret

1 - Crusade (Nov-2009)
1 - Gathering Storms (Apr-2012)
1 - Heretic (Mar-2013)
2 - Grail (Oct-2010)
2 - Kill Them All (Apr-2012)
2 - Quest (Mar-2013)
3 - A Gift from Bram (Apr-2012)
3 - Rebirth (Mar-2013)
4 - Fires of Minerve (Apr-2012)
5 - Dragon's Head (Nov-2012)
6 - Al-Andalus (Nov-2012)
7 - Stigmata (Nov-2012)

Northwest Passage

1 - North with Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames (Nov-1999)
2 - The Final Alchemy (Apr-2012)
3 - The Alchemist's Dream (Sep-2007)
4 - Across Frozen Seas (Sep-2006)

Tales of War

1 - Wings of War (Jun-2014)
2 - Dark Terror (Aug-2015)
3 - A Dangerous Game (Sep-2016)

The Weet Trilogy

1 - Weet (Apr-1996)
2 - Weet's Quest (Nov-1997)
3 - Weet Alone (Dec-1999)

Book List in Order: 71 titles

  • Lori

  • Turmfalke

    David Lewis begins to suffer terrible nightmares of which he remembers nothing when awake. His terrified wife persuades him to seek help. The psychotherapist helps David to recreate the scene from his nightmare - a scene from his childhood, so painfu...

  • Weet

    The Weet Trilogy - 1

    Twelve-year-old dinosaur expert Eric, his young sister Rose and their faithful dog Sally find themselves mysteriously transported back in time 65 million years to the era of dinosaurs. Amazingly, they are befriended by an intelligent, evolved crea...

  • Weet's Quest

    The Weet Trilogy - 2

    In this compelling sequel to Weet, Eric, his sister Rose and their faithful dog Sally find themselves back in a familiar, albeit frightening, world. Weet, enlightened by what his time-travelling friends had taught him, feels a longing to discover wha...

  • The Disappearance of Lyndsey Barratt

    Brutally attacked by a group of cruel athletes, Lyndsey Barratt vanishes, but now, seven years later, someone is exacting deadly revenge on these same attackers, and two people--journalist Julie Adams and Inspector Frank Illiffe--must delve into a wo...

  • High John the Conqueror

    Set in the river bottoms of southeast Texas where the Navasota and Brazos rivers come together, High John the Conqueror tells the story of African American cotton farmers struggling to hold on to their land during the last years of the Great Depressi...

  • North with Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames

    Northwest Passage - 1

    …a richly re-imagined fable which goes far beyond anything the historical record alone might suggest. Russell A. Potter, Arctic Book ReviewPerhaps, on a barren Arctic shore in the summer of 1849, knowing he was dying, a British Naval offi...

  • Weet Alone

    The Weet Trilogy - 3

    In the final book of the Weet trilogy, Eric, Rose and Sally are once more thrown backwards in a skiing accident to Weet's time, where mysterious meteor showers have been increasing in frequency and violence. Eric has the unenviable task of telling...

  • Ghosts of James Bay

    Fourteen-year-old Al is spending the summer on the shores of Ontario's James Bay with his eccentric archaeologist father. On their last day there, Al paddles his canoe awawy from the rocky, tree-lined shore and is strangely overtaken by a thickfog...



  • Adrift in Time

    In this dramatic young adult novel, Ian sets off in an open boat after an argument with his father, only to find himself swept out to the Pacific. Drifting and suffering from hypothermia, the young teen is visited by family ghosts who share storie...

  • The Flags of War: Shiloh 1862

    The Caught in Conflict Collection - 3

    In this novel by John Wilson, Nate MacGregor knows he must fight for his Southern homeland in the Civil War. Meanwhile, his cousin Walt in Canada West fears that due to the seizure of a Confederate ship with British envoys on board, Britain and her c...

  • Battle Scars: Libby Prison 1863

    The Caught in Conflict Collection - 4

    This novel by John Wilson, the sequel to The Flags of War, continues the adventures of two cousins, Walt and Nate McGregor, and of Sunday, the former slave on Nate's father's plantation. They have survived the carnage at Shiloh. But the war rages on....

  • Four Steps to Death: Stalingrad 1942

    The Caught in Conflict Collection - 8

    In this novel by John Wilson set during the Battle of Stalingrad, three participants -- two fighters and a boy -- are caught in its horrors. Their story is told over seven days of fierce and deadly street-by-street fighting. Vasily is a patriotic Rus...

  • Red Goodwin

    John Wilson has created a compelling YA novel based on the folk hero, Albert ":Ginger": Goodwin, also known as ":Red": Goodwin from the colour of his hair and his radical social ideas. Goodwin was originally a miner from the north ...

  • Across Frozen Seas

    Northwest Passage - 4

    In his third young adult title, John Wilson takes on the rich territory of the 1845 Franklin expedition. Cabin boy David Young travels aboard the ill-fated vessel the HMS Erebus from London, England, en route to Canada's frozen and uncharted north...

  • Where Soldiers Lie: India 1857

    The Caught in Conflict Collection - 2

    John Wilson, an ex-geologist and frustrated historian, is the award-winning author of 12 historical fiction novels, most recently Four Steps to Death, Flames of the Tiger and And in the Morning. He has also authored five nonfiction books for young ad...

  • The Alchemist's Dream

    Northwest Passage - 3

    In the fall of 1669, the Nonsuch returns to London with a load of fur from Hudson Bay. It brings something else, too -- the lost journal from Henry Hudson's ill-fated search for a passage to Cathay in 1611. The journal finds its way to the aged Rob...

  • The Ghosts of Varus

    In A.D. 9, the Roman nobleman Publius Varus led three entire legions -- 20,000 men -- east of the Rhine to subdue a rebellion. The Teutonic forests, and the barbarian warriors they concealed, utterly destroyed the Roman army, leaving only a few d...

  • Lost in Spain: Spanish Civil War 1936

    The Caught in Conflict Collection - 7

    From a renowned young adult historical fiction author comes a novel set in 1936, against the tumultuous backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. As the conflict breaks out, Ted and his family are beginning their ill-fated vacation to Europe. Despite their ...



  • The Return of George Camsell's Football Boots

  • Death on the River: Andersonville 1865

    The Caught in Conflict Collection - 5

    Set during the last year of the American Civil War, Death on the River portrays the grim brutality of war through the eyes of a young soldier.

    After the older brother he worshipped is killed in battle, young Jake Clay joins the Union Army in ...

  • Crusade

    The Heretic's Secret - 1

    This riveting tale begins in 1209 as zealous Catholic knights prepare to storm the walls of the heretic Cathar city of Beziers. "Kill them all," they are told, "God will know his own." The Crusaders took the advice to heart and slaughtered 10,000 peo...

  • And in the Morning: Somme 1916

    The Caught in Conflict Collection - 6

    Jim Hay is 15, thinks war is a glorious adventure, and cannot wait for his turn to fight. But as his father boldly marches off to battle in August 1914, Jim must be content to records his thoughts and dreams in his journal. All too soon, however, Jim...

  • Written in Blood

    Set in the harsh desert world of the Arizona Territory and northern Mexico during the 1870s, Written in Blood, the first installment of the Desert Legends Trilogy, follows young Jim Doolen as he attempts to find some trace of the father who abandoned...

  • Grail

    The Heretic's Secret - 2

    In Crusade, John Wilson introduced his readers to a world literally on fire. As childhood friends John and Peter are torn apart by their increasingly different beliefs, the two young men found themselves on opposite sides of a search for a secret tha...

  • Shot at Dawn: World War I

    Sentenced to death for abandoning his unit, a soldier recounts the events leading up to his arrest.The reality of trench warfare is a shock to Allan McBride. Like many other young soldiers, he enthusiastically signed up for the chance to join the war...

  • Germania: The Roman Empire 9 CE

    The Caught in Conflict Collection - 1

    The Caught in Conflict Collection is an imprint of fast-paced, historically accurate, morally-complex quick reads for Adults and Teens. They can be read in any order.It's A.D. 79 on the slopes of Vesuvius. With no warning the mountain has erupted int...

  • Ghost Moon

    In the second installment of the Desert Legends Trilogy, Ghost Moon follows young James Doolen's story after he discovers the terrible truth about his father in Written in Blood. The year is 1878, and young Jim is not yet ready to return to Canada. I...

  • Fires of Minerve

    The Heretic's Secret - 4

    Fires of Minerve is the fourth installment of The Heretic's Secret, an epic tale told in 11 novellas. Surrounded on three sides by deep gorges, the walled city of Minerve is considered impregnable, but it has a weakness and it is Peter's job to spy o...



  • Gathering Storms

    The Heretic's Secret - 1

    Gathering Storms is the first installment of The Heretic's Secret, an epic tale told in 11 novellas. In the early thirteenth century, two childhood friends, John and Peter, are torn apart by a looming war and find themselves involved in a mysterious ...

  • A Gift from Bram

    The Heretic's Secret - 3

    A Gift from Bram is the third installment of The Heretic's Secret, an epic tale told in 11 novellas. Peter is drawn farther into the plans Aumery and de Montfort are hatching to continue the crusade and John is given an extraordinary gift by Beatrice...

  • Kill Them All

    The Heretic's Secret - 2

    Kill Them All is the second installment of The Heretic's Secret, an epic tale told in 11 novellas. The crusade has begun and John and Peter find themselves on opposite sides at the siege of Beziers. Will the fortified city break the spirit of the inv...

  • The Final Alchemy

    Northwest Passage - 2

    An old man sits by the dying embers of a fire in London of 1669. The ghosts of the past surround him and a decades old guilt weighs him down. As a young man, Robert Bylot did it all: journeyed to the magical Spice Islands on a quest for the alchemist...

  • Victorio's War

    Jim Doolen discovered his father's fate in Written in Blood and met Billy the Kid in Ghost Moon. Now, in the final installment of The Desert Legends Trilogy, he's a scout for the Army in the middle of a brutal war to force Victorio's Apaches onto a r...

  • Flames of the Tiger: Berlin 1945

    The Caught in Conflict Collection - 9

    In this novel by John Wilson, Dieter is seduced by the pomp and circumstance of war as a boy growing up during Hitler's rise to power. But as global hostilities intensify, Dieter is called upon to fight for his country in a conflict that he doesn't f...

  • Lost Cause

    Steve thinks a trip to Europe is out of the question -- until he hears his grandfather's will. Suddenly he's off to Spain, armed with only a letter from his grandfather that sends him to a specific address in Barcelona. There he meets a girl named La...

  • Al-Andalus

    The Heretic's Secret - 6

    Al-Andalus is the sixth installment of The Heretic's Secret, an epic tale told in 11 novellas. In search of peace and learning, John and Isabella head south to the Moorish lands of Al-Andalus. For time they are happy in an ancient library, but Isabe...

  • Dragon's Head

    The Heretic's Secret - 5

    Dragon's Head is the fifth installment of The Heretic's Secret, an epic tale told in 11 novellas. Adso is fighting a guerrilla war against the Crusader knights with his mutilated friend, Bertrand. When things go badly, Adso takes to aimlessly wanderi...

  • Stigmata

    The Heretic's Secret - 7

    Stigmata is the seventh installment of The Heretic's Secret, an epic tale told in 11 novellas. Peter has been sent on a quest mysterious east by the sinister Arnaud Aumery. It is hard but straightforward enough -- until the voices in his head begin. ...



  • Badger, Boomer and Bathroom Bob

    The befuddled and beleaguered dean of a small, struggling law school is confronted by the apparent embezzlement of financial aid funds, the murder of two students under bizarre circumstances, the rape of a young secretary, declining applications for ...

  • Heretic

    The Heretic's Secret - 1

    …astonishingly nuanced and masterfully told…—Quill & QuireIn the style of Bernard Cornwell, The Heretic's Secret Trilogy is a rollicking historical adventure set during the bloody 13th century wars against the Cathar Heretics of L...

  • Quest

    The Heretic's Secret - 2

    …a brave book, an unsettling book, and one that is very much needed at this time.—The Globe and Mail The Heretic's Secret Trilogy is a rollicking historical adventure set during the bloody 13th century wars against the Cathar Hereti...

  • Rebirth

    The Heretic's Secret - 3

    …an astonishingly nuanced and masterfully told story…—Quill & QuireThe Heretic's Secret Trilogy is a rollicking historical adventure set during the bloody 13th century wars against the Cathar Heretics of Languedoc. When the armour...

  • Stolen

    On a visit to a seaside town in Australia, fifteen-year-old Sam meets Annabel, who works at the local museum. Annabel's interest in history is infectious, and Sam soon finds himself eager to hunt for the remains of a boat called the Mahogany Ship -- ...

  • Death by Duck

    A case of murder without a corpse. A murder takes place in the dean's office of a law school, and the perpetrator, wearing a Donald Duck mask, flees after throwing his pistol to Dean Ansari. When the dean's secretary walks into the office, she sees...

  • Graves of Ice : The Lost Franklin Expedition, The Northwest Passage, George Chambers, 1845

    A dramatic Arctic adventure set during Sir John Franklin's doomed search for the Northwest PassageGeorge Chambers is a fourteen-year-old aboard the HMS Erebus, one of two ships under the command of Sir John Franklin on his quest to discover the North...

  • Bones

    Sam and Annabel are visiting Drumheller, Alberta, where the farmland Sam’s mother lives on is host to a dinosaur dig. Annabel, an avid learner, is thrilled to have access to paleontologists and spends as much time as she can near the dig, much to S...

  • A Wing and a Prayer

    A boy-friendly book set during World War One, published for the centennary of the war and accompanied by a digital component to boost interest from the school and library market.
         It's the early 1900s and Edward Setten is growing up in t...

  • Wings of War

    Tales of War - 1

    A boy-friendly book set during World War One, published for the centennary of the war and accompanied by a digital component to boost interest from the school and library market.      It's the early 1900s and Edward Setten is growing up in the p...



  • The Forbidden Journey

    The sound was so distant that maybe it was only his imagination; yet, as he sat up and strained to listen he knew it was real. Learner began walking in the direction of the sound that drew him closer and closer to the perimeter of the Forbidden Land....

  • Broken Arrow

    Steve thinks he made the right choice turning down a snowy week with his cousins at a cabin in northern Ontario in favor of a relaxing (and perhaps romantic) time under the Spanish sun with his friend, Laia. But when an email from his brother DJ arri...

  • The Porcupine's Quills

  • Dark Terror

    Tales of War - 2

    Alec Shorecross is 14 and has already left school to work in the local mine. He's paid 13 cents an hour to toil in the underground darkness. When war breaks out, Alec ships overseas in search of a different life and a way to contribute. He dreams of ...

  • Lost

    Sam and Annabel are pleased when they are selected to take a cruise to the Arctic. And they are thrilled when they learn that the cruise will take them past a site connected to the most famous mystery in Arctic history: the Franklin Expedition. But t...

  • The Missing Skull

    A trip to a remote lake in northern Ontario with his grandfather doesn't thrill Steve, especially since his twin brother, DJ, was taken to Central America. Matters start to look up when his grandfather tells Steve about the mysterious death of the ar...

  • A Dangerous Game

    Tales of War - 3

    A gripping World War One saga with a strong female protagonist, published for the third year of the war's centenary.


    Manon Wouters grew-up in the idyllic Belgian city of Damme, where she spent her afternoons cycling into beautiful Bruges t...

  • Christopher in his Sporting Jacket

    This vintage book contains John Wilson's 1901 work, "Christopher in his Sporting Jacket". Originally published in "Blackwood" in 1828, it is a delightful chronicle of sporting life and exquisite idyll of natural boyhood. This volu...

  • Gold

    Sam and Annabel are on vacation with Annabel's parents in Italy.While visiting the small hilltop town of Civita, they hear rumors of looted gold from World War II buried somewhere in the town's network of underground tunnels and caves. Once again the...

  • At The Dark Hour

    A loving a air is destroyed by the Blitz on London. Julia ends her relationship with Adam. Her concern is for her children and that, if she is divorced, she will lose them. What is the nature of love? Does it have gradations? Love, and it's textu...

  • The Third Act

    The Third Act deals with the intercultural struggles faced by Chinese students studying in North America in the present day and by an American playwright, Neil Peterson, caught up in the Nanjing Massacre of 1937. The contemporary story focuses on thr...

  • The Ruined City

    Howard is a lonely, geeky tenth-grader dealing with a father who's had some kind of breakdown, a flaky, overprotective mother and frightening waking dreams. Then he meets Cate, a strange girl who convinces him that he is an Adept, which means he ...

  • Love's Orphan

    A forsaken duchess and the disgraced knight who is willing to sacrifice everything to save her…When Duke Frederick of the medieval duchy of Austria is killed in combat without a male heir, the House of Babenberg is plunged into disarray. In the des...

  • Love Death and Nonsense

    butterfly on a leafsips dew abovemy father's grave Over three decades as an author, John Wilson has often come up with ideas, thoughts and ephemera that either wouldn't fit into a novel or demanded to be expressed as a poem. Some saw the light o...

  • The Millennium, or, World to Come

  • North with Franklin

  • Hadrosaur

    The Dinosaur Chronicles - 2

    This is a fun book and dinosaur-mad youngsters will have fun reading it and imagining themselves in the shoes of Eric and Rose. Recommended. (CM Magazine ) This compelling sequel continues the time-travel adventures of Eric, Rose and Sally in the wor...

  • Tyrannosaurus

    The Dinosaur Chronicles - 3

    ...the story is...exciting, and the relationships between the humanoid dinosaurs and the young humans are believable and noteworthy. Eric struggles with his dilemma of whether or not to tell Weet that his species is ultimately doomed...What is partic...

  • Velociraptor

    The Dinosaur Chronicles - 1

    A perfect, illustrated, easy-to-read novel for eager young dinosaur fanatics.As a great adventure story and scientific tour of the Cretaceous world, Weet keeps the reader enthralled to the end. The Log.Somewhere in the badlands of southern Alberta li...

  • The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay

    This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are gener...

  • Love Poison

    As the world turns and we search for tomorrow, the edge of night shall appear.Giving us one life to live--bold and beautiful--and we will hear the cries of the younger, the old, and the restless.There will be many in general hospitals, then the might...

  • A Shadow of Black Water

    Abel Kane runs a Dixie Mafia robbery crew. He's in deep-too deep-and now he wants out. But freedom has a bloody price.In the gritty underworld of the Dixie Mafia, twenty-seven-year-old Abel Kane finds himself entangled in a web of crime spun by his u...

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John Wilson has published 71 books.

John Wilson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Shadow of Black Water, was published in August 2024.

The first book by John Wilson, Lori, was published in April 1990.

Yes. John Wilson has 6 series.
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