Strong Winds series by Julia Jones (Books 1-5)
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Overview: Julia Jones’s introduction to books came as a child. Her parents bought author Arthur Ransome’s yacht Peter Duck when Julia was not quite three years old. Julia soon discovered that her berth on board Peter Duck was the snuggest place in the world for reading – and writing and dreaming as well. It wasn’t until many years later when she and her partner, Francis Wheen, had bought Peter Duck for themselves that she discovered that her special reading place had originally been designed for Ransome to store his typewriter.
Julia ran a bookshop in the Essex village of Ingatestone when her children were young and began publishing local titles in a larger-than-usual print to suit her older customers. She worked closely with Age Concern Essex to compile anthologies of material from their annual essay competitions. Out of this activity came When I was a Child, Yesterday’s Heroes, The Last All-Clear and In Those Days She called her publishing company Sarsen Publishing with reference to the sarsen stone in Ingatestone High Street.
Genre: Children
1. The Salt-Stained Book
In 1945, two brothers die in the icy Barents Sea and a book is all that survives of them. More than sixty years later Donny and his mother set out for Suffolk to meet his mysterious great aunt.
There is an accident and Donny is taken into care. But are the officials all that they seem and why won’t they believe Donny’s story?
Soon he discovers that his life has been built on a lie. Only the new friendships he makes 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.
2. A Ravelled Flag
In ‘A Ravelled Flag’, Donny Walker and his allies – Anna, Xanthe, Maggi and Luke – come dangerously close to finding out the truth about pirates. Their adventures take them to semi-derelict docklands, up the deserted and beautiful River Stour and onwards to Britain’s most easterly point.
3. Ghosting Home
"When Donny saw which boat it was slipping stealthily up-river in this dead hour between night and day, he crouched lower and motioned to the others to do the same. No precaution could be too extreme. The Hispaniola had left her mooring." (from chapter 4 "Tiger on the Prowl")
Once the mysterious red-and-white schooner is on the move, Donny Walker and his family are in danger. Even a hasty crossing of the North Sea may not be enough to save them. Meanwhile in Fujian Province, China, a fourteen-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? Can Gold Dragon help him?
4. The Lion of Sole Bay
"There were heavy guns in the smoke behind the lion, a flash of steel and a crack of flame. People screamed and died. It would crush him if he didn’t get away."
Luke plans to spend the autumn half term helping his father restore an old fishing boat at the top end of Fynn Creek. 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.The three of them find themselves in the dark night of the North Sea threatened by violence in the present and from the past.
The Lion of Sole Bay is a modern adventure story inspired by the historical events of the Battle of Sole Bay which took place off the coast of Suffolk in 1672. It’s a stand-alone title which links with some of the characters from the Strong Winds Trilogy.
5. Black Waters
“He said he reckoned as you’d understand why the dinghy was for you…”
Xanthe Ribiero is in hiding. She has made an unforgiving enemy
and has taken refuge on a redundant lightship in the Essex marshes. The River Blackwater sparkles in the early summer sun and the weather is set fair for sailing, but the children Xanthe has come to teach are oddly fearful – as if they are in hiding too?
The local families have been feuding for generations. Their motives and relationships are as muddy as the puddles across the saltings and it is 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…
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