John Wilson

John Wilson was born in 1951 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He did his early growing up on the Island of Skye and in Paisley, near Glasgow. From 1969 to 1974, he attended the University of St. Andrews where he took an Honours B.Sc.. in Geology and never played golf once. He took a position with the Geological Survey of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). In his two years there, he mapped rocks, dodged land mines and watched the country sink ever deeper into civil war. Shortly before he was due to be called into the army, John retreated back to Britain on his way to the safety of Canada. He settled on Calgary where geology was booming and the only danger was freezing to death in January. In 1979, he moved to Edmonton to take up a post with the Alberta Geological Survey. In 1988 he sold a feature article to the Globe and Mail. This fueled a smouldering mid-life crisis and he took up freelance writing full-time. With some success, John mined the experiences of his travels for articles, journalism and photo essays. He even began to express himself poetically and, with a young family, began writing children's stories. He moved to Nanaimo and then Lantzville on Vancouver Island. John has been widely published by a number of Canadian presses, with his acolades including a shortlisting for the Governor General’s Award.

Books by John Wilson

Lost

Stolen

Bones

The Ruined City

The Third Act

Gold

The John Wilson Seven 2-Pack

The Missing Skull

A Dangerous Game

Battle Scars

The Flags of War

Dark Terror

Flames of the Tiger

And in the Morning

Broken Arrow

Seven Sequels Ebook Bundle

Au Canada : Les tombes de glace

Wings of War

Bones

I Am Canada: Graves of Ice

Stolen

Lost Cause

Seven (the Series) Ebook Bundle

Victorio's War

Billy the Kid

Ghost Moon

I Am Canada: Shot at Dawn

Written in Blood

Grail

Bitter Ashes

Death on the River

Crusade

The Alchemist's Dream

Lost in Spain

Ghosts of James Bay

Desperate Glory

Germania

Where Soldiers Lie

Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents

Red Goodwin

Four Steps to Death

Flags of War, The

Discovering the Arctic

Adrift in Time

Righting Wrongs