Books by Eric Johns

""All this happened to me last summer. I really lost it. It was like I'd blown every circuit in my head.""Mike can't stop thinking about sex: his whole life is an emotional seesaw. And then he meets a student nurse who doles out pills like there's no tomorrow. Before he knows it he's stolen a wad of money and is riding happily through the countryside in a horse-drawn caravan. But is this really the trip of a lifetime or one of his hallucinations or a journey to Hell?

"At least you once had a life - and perhaps one day I'll have one," Seb tells his great-grandmother, but only occasional words draw a response. Her bitterness at being placed in an old people's home is fading as her memory melts away. During Seb's visits she scatters hints of a life she has kept secret from her family. Did she once have another identity? What did she do in the war? Why does no one know? And what has she forgotten that torments her? Seb tries to unravel her past and reconstruct her life. At times she falls silent and drifts away clinging to a fragment of memory. Then Seb is left to soliloquise about the dissatisfactions of his own life. He describes his attempts to begin a relationship with a girl - any girl - and in desperation hits on the idea of an arranged romance. But his efforts are being sabotaged.

"Quernstone is our valley. It's a different world from what most people know...But Fay is different from everyone else in Quernstone. It's as though she's two people in one." When someone threatened to kidnap Fay she turned to the Ooser to save her and ordered Gavin to wear the ancient mask. What happened next meant disaster if anyone found out. As usual, Gavin felt it was Fay or the Ooser in control of his life. He could have done without more problems because he had enough of his own - like a stepfather who was trying to destroy him.

Gary and Lynn were the first to have the new sort of dream. It was after they'd held the egg-stone. But that was only the start. Soon they discovered that they had the gift of mindreading. Then they found that those who didn't have the gift felt threatened by them. Even their own families wanted to control them. Their most dangerous enemy was a teacher at school. There was no one they could trust. Can those who learn to read minds ever lead normal lives again? An exciting story for ages 9 to 12.