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Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie.It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims.The novel follows the Pasha family: twin siblings Aneeka and Parvaiz and their older sister Isma, who has raised them in the years since the death of their mother; their jihadi father, whom the twins never knew, is also dead.
Like Nesbit's The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent.The five children (Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, Hilary, known as "the Lamb") are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes.
Fire is an ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2010) and a Cybils Awards winner (in the young adult fantasy/scifi category). [2] It was also awarded: Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of 2009 [3] Washington Post Best Kid's Book of The Year [4] Seattle Times Best YA Book of 2009 [5] School Library Journal Best Books of 2009 [6]
The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. [1] [2] It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to A Column of Fire.The Armour of Light takes place in the years 1792–1824 in Kingsbridge, the same fictional English town in The Pillars of the Earth.
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Home was named one of the "100 Notable Books of 2008" by The New York Times, [3] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by The Washington Post, [4] one of the Los Angeles Times' "Favorite Books 2008", [5] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by San Francisco Chronicle, [6] as well as one of The New Yorker book critic James Wood's ten favorite books of 2008 ...
Young Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech (U.S. edition title: Rebel Fire [1]) is the second novel in the Young Sherlock Holmes series that depicts Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes as a teenager in the 1860s. It was written by Andrew Lane and released in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2010 by Macmillan Books.
Beth L. Meister, writing for School Library Journal, compared Icefire to early books in the series, noting that the novel "offers a darker and more mature story" than The Fire Within. Further, Meister found that "Liz's clay dragons develop a greater degree of realism within the story, and their background is further explored". [1]