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Francesca Haig is the author of the post-apocalyptic Fire Sermon trilogy (The Fire Sermon; The Map of Bones; and The Forever Ship), translated into more than 20 languages.

Her latest novel, The Cookbook of Common Prayer, is published in June 2021 (UK; July 2021 for Australia and New Zealand).

Francesca gained her PhD from the University of Melbourne, and worked as an academic before becoming a full-time writer. Her poetry has been widely published. She grew up in Tasmania, and currently lives in London.

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When will you be coming out with The Fire Sermon sequel? I LOVED The Fire Sermon.

Francesca Haig The second in the trilogy is due to be published in Jan 2016 in the UK - and I think publication date in the US & Canada is usually a few weeks after …moreThe second in the trilogy is due to be published in Jan 2016 in the UK - and I think publication date in the US & Canada is usually a few weeks after that. I'm hard at work on the edits for Book 2 at the moment (and Book 3 is also underway...). So glad to hear that you loved The Fire Sermon - thank you!(less)

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LOVED, LOVED The Fire Sermon! Question, how did come up with the title?

Francesca Haig Thanks so much, Julie - delighted that you enjoyed The Fire Sermon! As for the title: I first came across the phrase in T.S. Eliot's immortal poem 'Th…moreThanks so much, Julie - delighted that you enjoyed The Fire Sermon! As for the title: I first came across the phrase in T.S. Eliot's immortal poem 'The Waste Land.' From the minute I ecountered the phrase, it really stuck in my mind. It turned out that Eliot had taken the phrase from an important Buddhist teaching about about detachment from earthly things and emotions. This seemed to fit with some of the ideas of my novel - but if I'm honest, I was hooked on the phrase before I'd even googled it to learn more about it. I found those three words alone so powerfully evocative. There's a couple of lines in the first page or so where I try to give some context for the title, within the world of the novel ('Before the blast, they say there’d been sermons about fire, about the end of the world. The fire itself gave the last sermon; after that there were no more.').(less)

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	The Fire Sermon (The Fire Sermon, #1) 3.61 avg rating — 6,923 ratings — published 2014 — 40 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 Map of Bones (The Fire Sermon, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 1,912 ratings — published 2016 — 29 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 Forever Ship (The Fire Sermon, #3) 3.75 avg rating — 864 ratings — published 2017 — 19 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 Cookbook of Common Prayer 4.42 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2021 — 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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	Fire Sermon (3 Book Series) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 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
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Francesca Haig added a status update: My latest novel, The Cookbook of Common Prayer,/i>, is published on June 3rd 2021 (UK). It's a contemporary adult literary novel, so in some ways a big change from The Fire Sermon trilogy, but it shares many of the same preoccupations. You can read more about the novel on my website (www.francescahaig.com) as well as here on GR (obvs!). It's available to pre-order in all the usual places.
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“I’m not sure that secret goat-farming is the most effective show of defiance.”
― Francesca Haig, The Fire Sermon

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“A history written in ashes, in bones. Before the blast, they say there'd been sermons about fire, about the end of the world. The fire itself gave the last sermon; after that there were no more.”
― Francesca Haig, The Fire Sermon

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“When did we become grateful for such small mercies?”
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