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John Wiltshire is the fictional persona of the author of the More Heat Than The Sun series. After spending twenty-two years in the military perfecting the art
of looking busy whilst secretly writing, John left as a senior officer
when a hastily dug tunnel was ready for use. Now living in New
Zealand (at least until enough money can be raised to leave) John has no plans to return to the army. Unless the world situation gets considerably worse, that is.

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	Love Is a Stranger (More Heat Than the Sun #1) 4.04 avg rating — 2,786 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conscious Decisions of the Heart (More Heat Than the Sun, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 1,663 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bridge of Silver Wings (More Heat Than the Sun, #3) 4.50 avg rating — 1,358 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Other Country (More Heat Than the Sun, #4) 4.46 avg rating — 1,241 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bruise-Black Sky (More Heat Than the Sun, #5) 4.31 avg rating — 1,088 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death's Ink-Black Shadow (More Heat Than the Sun, #6) 4.38 avg rating — 982 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Royal Affair (A Royal Affair, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 969 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enduring Night (More Heat Than the Sun, #7) 4.21 avg rating — 892 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Fateful Heap of Days (More Heat Than the Sun, #8) 4.34 avg rating — 805 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ollie Always 4.16 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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More Heat Than the Sun (9 books)
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A Royal Affair (2 books)
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John Wiltshire said: " This is one of those rare books that deserves a great deal more than five stars. It's a standout novel of apocalyptic horror and sadness. I've rarely read a book so fast nor been so moved and disturbed by one.
Adam Nevill is a fantastic author and if This is one of those rare books that deserves a great deal more than five stars. It's a standout novel of apocalyptic horror and sadness. I've rarely read a book so fast nor been so moved and disturbed by one.
Adam Nevill is a fantastic author and if you've not sampled his work yet, do. 'Fiends' is the tenth book by him I've read. Apocalyptic fiction isn't easy to write because you need a credible 'end of the world' scenario, characters readers care about, and the ability in your writing to bring home just what is being lost. Nevill does all this in spades. In fact, almost too well. As I said in the first paragraph, this is a novel of intense sadness. It's heartbreaking. It's very, very hard to read at times. I admit, it hit me particularly hard because it's set in my old stomping ground: the South Hams of Devon. I know every creek he described. I could follow the route his protagonists made around the coastal villages as if I was travelling it with them. So reading of it all ending, which in so many ways it has for me, only exacerbated my constant longing for home. Devon is lost to me now, and I admit to tearing up once or twice reading this book when this stark reality was portrayed in this awful, awful apocalypse.
The premise of the novel is quite simple in some ways. A man has flu, but by being bedridden avoids the apocalyptic event that takes almost everyone else. He wakens to a world which seems to have literally opened the gates of hell and released those imprisoned there. One of the major devices the author uses to show the inexorable spread of the 'hellscape' is the colour of the light, a spreading red sky which heralds the worst demons. It's a true testament to this author's writing skill that although this sky is mentioned on almost every page, its description is never once repeated and by the end of the book I actually began to feel the noxious menace of these repellant clouds. Another sign for me of a skillful author confident of his craft is the way Nevill leaves much of the horror of the book to the reader's imagination. I didn't need more detail, thank you. What we got genuinely disturbed me, and I tried not to think about it all too much. The way the fiends tempted people out of their homes was particularly heartbreaking, so if I dwelt on it too much I would have been overwhelmed.
Do not miss this book. It's an incredible read. ...more "

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“Why should I change to suit other people’s inadequacy?”
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“We're only together because we don't think about it too much? I'm gratified and flattered by your devotion."
Ben sighed. "When was the last time you thought about breathing?"
"What?"
"Breathing? Lungs in and out? Air? When did you last think about it? You're like breathing. I don't think about it, but I need it to stay alive."
A faint smile came to Nikolas's lips. "Then you're like a heartbeat. I'll miss you when you stop.”
― John Wiltshire, This Other Country

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“If this is love for you, then you are in love with a ghost, with the illusion of a man. Is that enough for you?"
"Would you let me have that? If you do, then I will find the man. I'll breathe life back into the ghost.”
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