Jamila Gavin

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2000
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Surya Trilogy

1 - The Wheel of Surya (Jun-2001)
2 - The Eye of the Horse (Jun-2001)
3 - The Track of the Wind (May-2001)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Coram Boy

    2000 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year

    Published to acclaim in the United Kingdom, this stunning historical novel delves into a hidden side of eighteenth-century England: the world of infanticide and child slavery. Otis Gardiner, the Coram...

  • The Track of the Wind

    Surya Trilogy - 3

    The dramatic final volume in the Wheel of Surya trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author of Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin. In 1947 India is rocked by the Independence movement and partition with Pakistan. Their lives disrupted by violence, Jaspal and Marv...

  • The Eye of the Horse

    Surya Trilogy - 2

    The dramatic second story in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author of Coram Boy. Jamila Gavin, India 1948. "The light has gone out of our world." Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated. In India, chaos and turmoil reign. In England, Jaspal and ...

  • The Wheel of Surya

    Surya Trilogy - 1

    In 1947 India is rocked by the Independence movement and partition with Pakistan. Their lives disrupted by violence, Jaspal and Marvinder are sent from their Indian village to find their father, who is a student in England. This book offers a story a...

  • Fine Feathered Friend

    Yellow Bananas Teacher's Guide Based on the Yellow Bananas series, this resource for teachers helps reinforce and enhance what students learn in their core reading program through engaging activities that focus on reading skills. Teachers will find: ...

  • Danger By Moonlight

    Filippo has never met his father. Before he was born, his father, a jeweller, travelled to the court of the Great Moghul Emperor Shan Jehan. Twelve years later, a stranger, Signor Khan, arrives bringing a message. His father is held captive by the ba...

  • Alien Adventures

    In Sam McBratney's "The Stranger from Somewhere in Time," Helen, Lorna, Foxy, Murdo, and Bopper bury a time capsule without really expecting anything to happen, so imagine their surprise when they receive a message from the future Who "is" the stran...

  • See No Evil

    This spellbinding haunted-house story takes place within the confines of a grand London mansion, a place where shadowy characters are always coming and going, almost like ghosts. But when twelve-year-old Nettie's beloved tutor disappears, the cloiste...

  • Three Indian Goddesses

    Enter the magical and exotic world of the Indian goddesses... Three contemporary stories inspired by Hindu tales Shanta and the Goddess Kali: Shanta is chosen to dance for the gods at the temple by the sea. It's a great honour, but Shanta is terrifie...



  • Tales from India: Stories of Creation and the Cosmos

    Discover a world of classic tales from India. Come on a journey with renowned storyteller Jamila Gavin as she writes of great floods, legendary romances, and epic battles between good and evil. This new collection of Hindu tales, including the birth ...

  • School for Princes

    How can a king knock some sense into his silly sons so that they grow up sensible young men? A wise man tells the king that he can do the job in six weeks. Every time one of the boys says or does something rash, the sage will put him back on the stra...

  • The Blood Stone

    Here is the story of the Ocean of the Moon, a diamond without peer, a blood stone that is its owner's passport to a world of spies, deception, and death. In Venice, the jewel promises wealth and prestige to greedy Bernardo Pagliarin. At the court of ...

  • Blackberry Blue

    Prepare to enter a world of magicians, enchanted forests, talking animals and wicked witches . . . Here are six magical stories to thrill and enchant you. Watch Blackberry Blue rise from the bramble patch; follow Emeka the pathfinder on his missio...

  • Blackberry Blue and Other Fairy Tales

    Prepare to enter a world of magicians, enchanted forests, talking animals, and wicked witches, with these six brand-new breathtaking fairy tales

    Here are six magical stories to thrill and enchant young readers. Watch Blackberry Blue r...

  • Monkey in the Stars

    This tells a story from the Indian epic poem The Ramajana. From Rama's banishment to his triumph, helped by an army of monkeys, over the ten-headed demon king, Ravana, this is a stirring and magical tale, framed by scenes set in the present in which ...

  • Tales From India

  • In Her Element 2021

  • Alexander the Great

  • Never Forget You



  • Never Shall I Ever Forget You

    A stunning and heartbreaking new novel from Jamila Gavin, the bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya.England, 1937.Gwen, Noor, Dodo and Vera are four very different teenage girls, with something in common. Their pare...

  • Tales from Ancient Egypt

  • My Soul, A Shining Tree

    A stunning and heartbreaking new novel from Jamila Gavin, the bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya.Based on the true story of Indian WWI gunner and recipient of the Victoria Cross, Khudadad Khan. The story is told ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jamila Gavin has published 22 books.

The next book by Jamila Gavin, My Soul, A Shining Tree, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy, was published in January 2000.

Yes. Jamila Gavin has 1 series.
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