My YA Novels

Hi, I've written and self published some novels aimed mainly at Young Adults or older kids (are they the same? Who knows?).  These are all available on Amazon just by searching on the title and my name. I'd put links in but to be honest they die after a while so it's easier just to go on there. Needless to say if you happen to be a tv producer then these would make cracking dramas (only to be cancelled by Netflix after one season of course).
There’s more information about each book on my website www.johnconnorswriter.com

Coming Soon - Earth Fire

 

After Tom Allenby is attacked by statues that have somehow come to life suspicions lead to the mysterious scientist Professor Emile Quillam. Is he behind these elementally controlled attacks or is there someone else, hidden away, controlling events? Tom, his friends and a number of others find themselves trapped and being hunted in a large country house. With time running out before a larger threat is released, can Tom solve the mystery and save the world from chaos?

 This is the seventh novel in the Heart of the World series set in and around the remote English village of Rooksbourne under which the world’s natural elemental energy lies.

The Monster's Tale  

Strange things are happening in the small seaside town of Malford Bay. A glowing gold box that teenager Alfie Speed finds is the only clue to a terrible event that happened forty years ago but has been erased from history. Alfie and his friends find themselves on the run from goat faced creatures and mysterious human agents who all want the box but for different reasons. Alfie has to work out who the real monsters are and save the world before it is too late in this fast moving sci-fi - fantasy-espionage -adventure!

(published August 2022)

The Heart of the World series

Heart of the World is a series of novels for children and young adults centred around a boy who discovers he must protect the planet from elemental threats. All the novels are available on Amazon in both print and Kindle ebook version- there’s links below if you’re interested. 

There’s more information about each book on my website www.johnconnorswriter.com

The Lonely Sea

 Following recent tragic events, teenager Tom Allenby has abandoned the Earthstone which gives him power over the elements. Yet he is soon drawn back into that world by a threat from a three hundred year old menace long thought to be dead. As powers centre around a Bronze Age tomb that is not what it seems Tom is thrown into a spectacular confrontation with powers from both the Earth and the Moon. Can he overcome his doubts and fears in time to stop the return of the most dangerous man who ever lived?  The Lonely Sea combined epic adventure on land and at sea, ancient mysteries and emotional journeys.

(Published October 2023)

Dark Nature

Deep inside the mountain known as Devil’s Peak, a group of misfit scientists’ amazing plan to solve ecological problems is threatened by an elemental menace with dangerously different ideas. As Tom Allenby tries to stop this new threat to mankind, he faces the most serious peril of his fifteen year old life. Things will never be the same again. In his toughest, most personal adventure yet can Tom save the world and those closest to him? Or will humanity fall to the storm of the century?

(Published May 2021)

Blue Sky Black
A series of magnetic disturbances that cause metallic items including cars to rise into the air leads Tom on the trail of missing magnetic stones to the village of Marston Hill whose inhabitants are changed by an event fifteen years ago. Meanwhile each of his friends face challenges of their own. Amber’s missing twin sister Jade appears to have returned after eighteen months, Kyle has visitors who are not what they seem and Jake finds himself back in Ravensthorpe Hall where a group of radical environmentalists are hiding out. And sitting beneath a circle of neolithic stones with unusual properties is someone whose plan could wipe out all life on the planet. 
(Published August 2018)  

The Spectres of Winter

In a thrilling new adventure Tom Allenby, the boy who can control the elements, faces a double threat. In the depths of a freezing winter, Harrow Hill School is over -run by a force which can control the ice and create dangerous creatures. Hiding nearby what does this force want? Meanwhile a super evolved subterranean group emerge from underground with a plan that threatens the whole world. Trapped and isolated can Tom and his friends overcome the dangers in time?  Or will the Spectres of Winter win?

(Published October 2016)

Living Things

Tom Allenby’s second incredible adventure in the village of Rooksbourne begins when he discovers that a girl called Ellie appears to share his powers of controlling the elements- but is she a friend or a threat?  What has happened to all the birds and animals in the woods? Who is the mysterious figure dressed in a cloak of leaves? What power is causing violent incidents to occur at Harrow Hill School? And what is the War of Ages? As the truth unfolds, Tom and his friends battle a newly awoken enemy that wants to wipe out all humans.
(Published April 2015)

Elemental

Thirteen year old Tom Allenby is plunged into the adventure of a lifetime when he moves to the village of Rooksbourne where nothing is what it seems. With the help of new friends and a mysterious stone that gives him new powers Tom battles deadly over-sized animals, plants and birds as he races to stop a plan that threatens the whole world.

(Published April 2014)