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A House in the Sky is a 2013 memoir by Amanda Lindhout, co-written with the journalist Sara Corbett.It recounts Lindhout's experience in southern Somalia as a hostage of teenage militants from the Hizbul Islam fundamentalist group.
He Shall Thunder in the Sky (also published as Thunder in the Sky) is the 12th in a series of historical mystery novels by Elizabeth Peters, first published in 2000, and featuring fictional archaeologist and sleuth Amelia Peabody. [1] The story is set in the 1914–1915 dig season in Egypt.
Houses loom large in Bowen's work (as is evident in Bowen's Court, her 1946 book memorialising her ancestral house, Bowen's Court, one of the Irish great houses, which she was forced to sell and which was subsequently demolished) and in The House in Paris the main setting is the house where Naomi and Mme Fisher live, which is characterised as ...
Amelia Peabody is introduced in the series' first novel, Crocodile on the Sandbank, as a confirmed spinster, suffragist, and scholar, living in England in 1884.She inherits a fortune from her father and leaves England to see the world, with the side benefit of escaping various suitors and family members who were neither aware that she would be the sole beneficiary of her father's estate nor ...
The Falcon at the Portal (1999) is the 11th (in order of writing) in a series of historical mystery novels by Elizabeth Peters, first published in 1999. It features fictional archaeologist and sleuth Amelia Peabody. The story is set in the 1911–1912 dig season in Egypt.
A fifth child was born in 1947. He suffered severe disabilities and died in 1949. Laird's first children's novel, Red Sky in the Morning (Heinemann, 1988), was inspired in some measure by her brother's life. [1] Laird has been a judge of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction since its inception in 2010. [2]: 4
Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear.She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline", and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Shoggoths in Bloom". [1]
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is a 2021 environmental book by Elizabeth Kolbert. [1] The book follows many of the themes she explored in The Sixth Extinction . Summary