Ian Wood: 20 books

A comprehensive survey which begins with the rise of the Franks, then examines the Merovingians.

From the author of Femarine - another girl-power novel aimed at a younger audience and set in the Terrene world where each story has different characters and new adventures! The climate is looking worse than the boys' bathroom. Weather extremes are extreme. No one seems to be helping the environment....

In the female empowering world of Terrene, a world very much like our own, but where young girls can have real power, a new story has arisen. Set on the beautiful Queensland coast in northeast Australia, four thirteen-year-old girls - and a boy this time - are all riders of the waves: they...

The Little Rattuses discover a strange new creature invading their farm: the Greater Grackle! It's a big and scary-looking bird, but is it really greater or just different? Should the Little Rattuses cause trouble for the visitors or make friends? Sometimes hard decisions have to be made, but the Little Rattuses are brave and fair, and not afraid to make the right choice.

Janine is seventeen and has a kicking life: a job with her friends,some money to spend. And football. As in: she manages and plays for her own factory soccer team. She couldn’t be happier could she? She never imagined there could be more, but she did dream, and when the chance of making that...

Can you help the little Rattuses find their friends Louise and Thelma? After a dispute with the author about how he drew Louise's feet, the two Little Rattuses left the farm and went on a sabbatical (it's like a vacation). Now after the great non-battle with the grackles, the other Little Rattuses...

Despite being newly-crowned Queen of Quontiga, Castelle still feels like her authority is in the hands of the same moribund people who counseled her much-missed father. While she tries to suffer through these martial games arranged in celebration of her coronation, her advisors are nagging...

The Little Rattuses escaped from the airplane that was taking them to a lab, by means of jellyfish parachutes! Now they live on a farm near a lake and a zoo, and they have fun adventures every day. This time out, it's a rather special day when pranking isn't only going on, it's expected to be going...

A monster of a fantasy with a twist in the tale! Joanne Ross saw the chance of a summer cruise on the Caledonian Canal in Scotland as a great 'get away from it all' after a demanding year on a teaching exchange in England, so why does she find herself inviting Loz Garet along with her? Has...

I know I've said repeatedly that I'll never write a series, but that's when it comes to grown-up books. With children's books, the rules are out the window! As indeed are The Little Rattuses, which is how they escaped from the airplane that was taking them to a lab. Now they live on a farm and have...

It’s not well known that Rattuses have produced some of the finest art in the world over the last half a millennium! Most of it is about food, admittedly, but this is a big preoccupation amongst wild Rattuses, and The Little Rattuses are no exception. See the great masters (and mistresses)...

Two hundred years after Castelle and Femarine, in a nation which was once their enemy, Prince Benson is on a quest to find The Exercitation, a cure for his beloved, but deathly-ill fiancée. He has no clue what he's getting into, he knows only that he cannot fail. Who are his enemies, and who...

I know I swore I'd never write a series, but when it comes to children's books, that's out the window, as indeed were The Little Rattuses™when they made their bid for Independence on July 4th, by jumping from a plane that was taking them to a lab - using jellyfish as parachutes! Now they live on...

Once again Louise and Thelma, escapees from Rattusky LaboRATories, are on the loose, and this time they're learning about Christmas. What is it all about? The Winter Solstice! The waning and waxing of the daylight as the sun appears to move south and then back north in our sky. The Little Rattuses...