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Home Fire or Home Fires may refer to: Literature *''Home Fire (novel)'', a novel by Kamila Shamsie * ''Home Fires'' (Katz book), a 1992 book by Don Katz * ''Home Fires'' (novel), a 2011 novel by Gene Wolfe Music *''Home Fire'', a 1991 album by Ron Kavana * ''Home Fires (Dead Ringer Band album)'', an album by Dead Ringer Band Television * ''Home Fires'' (British TV series), a drama series that debuted in 2015 * ''Home Fires'' (Canadian TV series), a drama series that debuted in 1980 * ''Home Fires'' (''Upstairs, Downstairs''), episode 6 of ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' series 4 See also * Keep the Home Fires Burning (other) *Structure fire A structure fire is a fire involving the structural components of various types of residential, commercial or industrial buildings, such as barn fires. Residential buildings range from single-family detached homes and townhouses to apartments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Fire (novel)
''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. Parvaiz attempts to follow in his father's footsteps by joining ISIS in Syria. He soon decides he has made a serious mistake and his twin sister attempts to help him return to Britain, in part through her romantic relationship with Eamonn Lone, son of British Home Secretary Karamat Lone, who has built his political career on his rejection of his own Muslim background. The effort to bring Parvaiz home fails when he is shot to death trying to escape ISIS, then Eamonn and Aneeka, trying to return Parvaiz's body to the UK over the objections of Karamat Lone, die in a terrorist attack. ''Home Fire'' won the Women's Prize for F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Fires (Katz Book)
''Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America'' is a narrative nonfiction book by Don Katz. Originally published in 1992, it was reissued in 2014 in ebook and audiobook formats with a new introduction by Jonathan Alter. The book covers the lives of the Gordons, an American family with many familiar experiences and struggles, including a move from the city to the suburbs, and four rebellious children. One of the grown children, Susan Gordon Lydon, wrote her own memoir in parallel, published the next year: ''Take The Long Way Home: Memoirs Of A Survivor''. Summary ''Home Fires'' tells the story of the Gordon family – real people, names unchanged - over nearly five decades, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s. The book chronicles the turbulent postwar era, illuminating the interplay between private life and profound cultural changes. Juxtaposing day-to-day family life with landmark public events, ''Home Fires'' is a revealing portr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Fires (novel)
''Home Fires'' is a 2011 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe. It was published by Tor Books. Synopsis Twenty years ago, when Skip and Chelle were poor university students in love, they devised a plan: she would join the army and fight in a war on an alien planet, and he would stay home and study. Then, when her tour of duty finished and she returned to Earth, time dilation would mean that she was barely two years older; meanwhile, twenty years would have passed for him, during which he could become a wealthy lawyer, so that he could take her as a trophy wife. However, now that she has returned, they have both found that their plan had certain flaws. Reception ''Kirkus Reviews'' considered the book to be "complex", "enigmatic", and "compelling", with "(a) somber, almost brooding tone".HOME FIRES, by Gene Wolfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Fire
''Home Fire'' is the fourth album by Irish musician/songwriter Ron Kavana. Released in 1991 on the Special Delivery label of Topic Records(and the next year in America on Green Linnet), the album is really a joint project with Terry Woods, formerly of The Pogues. The album features two Kavana/Woods co-writes, including "Young Ned Of The Hill", previously recorded by The Pogues on the album '' Peace and Love''. About half the tracks are performed by Kavana and Woods unaccompanied, the other half with other musicians. In 2009 ''Reconciliation'' was included in Topic's 70 year anniversary boxed set ''Three Score and Ten'' as track ten on the fifth CD. Track listing All tracks composed by Ron Kavana; except where indicated #"Home Fire/Beyond The Pale" (3:05) (Ashley Dreese, Kavana, Tomas Lynch) #"Johnny Go Easy" (4:04) #"Blind Sheehan" (5:06) (Traditional) #"Handcuffs/Gran' Sheriff of Ballydaheen" (3:20) #"Kilshannig Wager" (1:32) #"Lovely Cottage/Gold Ochra at Killarney P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Fires (Dead Ringer Band Album)
''Home Fires'' is the second studio album by Australian country music band Dead Ringer Band. The album was released in November 1995. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1996, the album won the ARIA Award for Best Country Album The ARIA Music Award for Best Country Album, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Indus .... Track listing Release history References {{Authority control 1995 albums ARIA Award-winning albums Dead Ringer Band albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Ringer Band
Dead Ringer Band were an Australian family country music band. They are best known for their ARIA Award-winning album '' Home Fires'' which won the Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1996. Background and formation Dead Ringer Band had its roots in the husband and wife team of Bill and Diane Chambers. Shortly after the birth of their second child Kasey in 1976, and with their three-year-old son Nash, the family moved to central Australia's Nullarbor Plain. The Chambers earned a living by hunting and trapping rabbits and foxes that raided Nullarbor poultry farms, then selling the pelts. The Chambers home-schooled Nash and Kasey, and taught them American folk and country music by the Carter Family, Jimmy Rogers, Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt and Gram Parsons, as well as Australian country artists, Slim Dusty, Buddy Williams and Tex Morton. In 1986 the family moved to Southend, located on the southern coast of Australia, and they began playing as a band at loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Fires (British TV Series)
''Home Fires'' is a British period television drama about the life of Women's Institute members on the Home Front during the Second World War. Set in a rural Cheshire community called Great Paxford, the series is produced by ITV, and launched its first series in May 2015. The first series is set between September 1939 and early 1940. The series was inspired by the book ''Jambusters'' by Julie Summers. With the first series having an average viewing ratings of 6.2 million ITV commissioned a second six-part series, aired in April 2016. The show focuses on a largely female cast, including notable actresses Francesca Annis, Samantha Bond, Claire Rushbrook, Fenella Woolgar and Leanne Best. Series 2 of ''Home Fires'' premiered on 2 April 2016 and gained 5.2 million views with a 23.7% share. In May 2016 ITV announced it would not be renewing the show. Cast and characters *Francesca Annis as Joyce Cameron. Joyce is a pillar of the community, and the historical leader of the Great Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Fires (Canadian TV Series)
''Home Fires'' was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBC Television from 1980 to 1983. It was a family saga set in Toronto during World War II, and took its name from the expression " keep the home fires burning". Created and written by Jim Purdy and Peter Such, the series centred on the Lowes, a family in Toronto. Patriarch Arthur Lowe (Gerard Parkes) was a doctor who ran a family medicine clinic in a working class downtown neighbourhood with nurse Marge (Sheila Moore), and was married to housewife Hannah ( Kim Yaroshevskaya), a Jewish immigrant from Poland.Wayne Grady, "We'll Keep a Welcome". ''TV Guide Canada'', November 8, 1980. As the series progressed, storylines increasingly focused on Arthur and Hannah's children Terry (Wendy Crewson) and Sidney ( Peter Spence) and nephew Jakob (Gil Yaron). Terry married her boyfriend Graeme (Jeff Wincott) shortly before he was shipped off to serve in the war, where he was killed at Dieppe; she then served in the Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Fires (Upstairs, Downstairs)
"Home Fires" is the sixth episode of the fourth series of the period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. It first aired on 19 October 1974 on ITV. Background ''Home Fires'' was filmed in the studio on 25 and 26 June 1974. The location footage was shot on 17 June 1974 at Barnsbury Square, Islington. The episode was set in 1916, and was the second and final episode featuring Keith Barron as Gregory Wilmot. Cast * Gordon Jackson - Hudson *Jean Marsh - Rose *David Langton - Richard Bellamy *Meg Wynn Owen - Hazel Bellamy *Joan Benham - Lady Prudence Fairfax *Jacqueline Tong - Daisy *Keith Barron - Gregory Wilmot *Auriol Smith - Mrs Lorimer * John Lyons - Charlie * Julia Sutton - Dorothy Matthews *Robert McBain - Hamish Matthews *Audrey Joyce - Mrs Ganton Audrey Joyce's role as Mrs Ganton was uncredited. Plot Rose's former fiancée Gregory Wilmot arrives to see Rose, but she is working on the buses. He is now a Sergeant in the ANZACs. While Hudson tells Sgt. Wilmot that Rose is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep The Home Fires Burning (other)
Keep the Home Fires Burning may refer to: * "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (1914 song), a British patriotic song by Ivor Novello and Lena Gilbert Ford * "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (The Bluetones song), 2000 * ''Keep the Home Fires Burning'', a 2004 novel by Anne Baker (author) * "Keep the Home Fires Burning", a series 4 episode of the TV series ''The Flaxton Boys ''The Flaxton Boys'' is a British historical children's television series set in the West Riding of Yorkshire and covering a timespan of almost a century. The series was made by Yorkshire Television and was broadcast on ITV between 1969 and 1 ...'' See also * Home Fires (other) * "Keep the Home Fries Burning", an episode of the TV series ''Murder, She Wrote'' * "Keep the Homes Fires Burning", a season 5 episode of the TV series ''Designing Women'' {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |