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The Strong Winds Series by Julia Jones
Published by Golden Duck Publishing
I met author Julia Jones through the Nancy Blackett Trust well over ten years ago when she bought my RYA sailing books for her teenage sons. I was delighted to be asked to illustrate a trilogy of sailing adventure stories for older children that she was writing. So began a friendship and working relationship that continued when the trilogy became a series of seven books, the last of which has been recently published. I now have these available through my online shop but if you want to find out about Julia’s other books go to her website www.golden-duck.co.uk
All books are paperback, all are also available as e-book and the Salt-Stained Book is also an audiobook.
“A Swallows and Amazons for our times” – Marine Quarterly
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The Salt-Stained Book (vol.1)
13-year-old Donny and his disabled mother set out to meet a mysterious Great Aunt. Instead they fall foul of two strangely hostile representatives of the Care System. Only Donny’s new friendships and an unsuspected talent for sailing help him steer his way through dangers that he cannot understand towards a knowledge of his own identity – and the secrets of a salt-stained book.
Julia Jones
Illustrated by Claudia Myatt
£10.99 (including postage)
A Ravelled Flag (vol.2)
Donny and his Allies adventure to semiderelict docklands, up the deserted and beautiful River Stour and onwards to Britain’s most easterly point as they come dangerously close to encountering 21st pirates. How is this connected to WW2 history on the Suffolk Coast?
Julia Jones
Illustrated by Claudia Myatt
£10.99 (including postage)
Ghosting Home (vol.3)
The mysterious red-and-white schooner is on the move and Donny and his family are in danger. Meanwhile in, China, a 14- year-old boy must leave the Village of Living Widows and travel to England, the Country of the Ghosts. Will he survive the storm winds of summer and can Gold Dragon help him?
Julia Jones
Illustrated by Claudia Myatt
£10.99 (including postage)
The Lion of Sole Bay (vol.4)
Luke plans to spend the autumn half term helping his father restore an old fishing boat up Fynn Creek on the River Deben. Angel craves excitement. Helen longs to go home. But this is Halloween. It’s the last week of the waning moon and nothing is quite as it seems…
Julia Jones
Illustrated by Claudia Myatt
£10.99 (including postage)
Black Waters (vol.5)
The local families in Flinthammock have been feuding for generations. Their motives and relationships are as muddy as their Essex marshes. It’s not long before Xanthe begins to suspect that there is evil in the present as well as in the past. A complex knot of secrets is beginning to unravel.
Julia Jones
Illustrated by Claudia Myatt
£10.99 (including postage)
Pebble (vol.6)
Liam struggles to protect his family against unseen dangers but a half-term trip up the Suffolk coast in the Chinese junk Strong Winds triggers a series of events which bring glorious discoveries and permanent damage. Is this the beginning of a new Cold War?
Julia Jones
Illustrated by Claudia Myatt
£10.99 (including postage)
Voyage North (vol.7)
It’s the summer of 2012. In Russia, the newly-elected President is tightening his grip on power while the UK focusses on the Olympics. Donny has dropped out of school, left Strong Winds, and is heading north on an oligarch’s superyacht. His journey will take him across the Arctic Circle and into the Barents Sea. Here he may find answers to questions that have troubled him all his life — and others which he has never thought to ask.
“An impressive finale to this unique series” - Yachting Monthly
Julia Jones
Illustrated by Claudia Myatt
£10.99 (including postage)