William Nicholson

The Wind on Fire Trilogy: Firesong


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      Praise for FIRESONG

      ‘The warmth of feeling and touches of comedy make the trilogy a triumph’

       The Times

      ‘Powerful imaginative energy and emotional force’

       Sunday Times

      ‘A gripping narrative and a questing intelligence’

       Daily Telegraph

      ‘Nicholson’s achievement is worthy of acclaim and should mellow into a classic’

       The Times

      ‘Our storytime reading of choice’

       Scotsman

      Praise for THE WIND SINGER and SLAVES OF THE MASTERY

      ‘Truly extraordinary’

       Daily Telegraph

      ‘An original and striking read’

       Melvin Burgess

      ‘. . . A gripping read . . . A beautifully narrated, warm thriller of a book, full of inventiveness, action and passion’

       Guardian

      ‘Gloriously cinematic and completely enthralling’

       Independent

      ‘Rich in characters . . . a gripping adventure’

       Sunday Times

      ‘A journey that will leave you breathless’

       Bookseller

       Books by William Nicholson

      The Wind on Fire Trilogy

       The Wind Singer

       Slaves of the Mastery

       Firesong

      The Noble Warriors Trilogy

       Seeker

       Jango

       Noman

      For older readers

       Rich and Mad

      First published in Great Britain 2002

       This edition published 2011

       by Egmont UK Limited

       239 Kensington High Street

       London W8 6SA

      Text copyright © 2002 William Nicholson

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted

      ISBN 978 1 4052 3971 4

       eISBN 978 1 7803 1212 5

      www.egmont.co.uk www.williamnicholson.co.uk

      A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title page

       Copyright

       Prologue: Bounce on, Jumper

       1 The view from the sourgum tree

       2 Drunkenness

       3 Sisi’s kiss

       4 Walking the storm

       5 The winner chooses a bride

       6 Farewell to childhood

       7 The dying of the last fire

       8 Fatness is happiness

       9 Talking with pigs

       10 Captain Canobius’s feast

       11 Winter dawn

       12 All my loves

       13 The egg’s song

       14 Pinto grows up

       15 Bowman flies

       16 Ira sees the future

       17 The meeting place

       18 Into the beautiful land

       19 The wind on fire

       Epilogue: A betrothal

       About the Author

       Praise for FIRESONG

       Books by William Nicholson

       About the Publisher