Home Fire
British and Pakistani novelist, born 1973. Won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2018.
Home Fire is a 2017 novel by Kamila Shamsie. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2018.
On 3 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Kamila Shamsie
- First published
- 2017
- Length
- 288 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 2017
- Women's Prize for Fiction winner, 2018
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Migration and identity, Religion and faith, Political
Is Home Fire worth reading?
3 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Women's Prize for Fiction and 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2017) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2018) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Home Fire
The edition we link to is the Bloomsbury Publishing paperback (2025), 288 pages.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing (paperback, 2025)
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781526679987
How critics, prizes and readers rate Home Fire
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 18% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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