Atonement (novel) Atonement (novel) Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. In 2010, "TIME" magazine named "Atonement" in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels
The Enduring Flame Trilogy The Enduring Flame Trilogy The Enduring Flame Trilogy is a three-novel fantasy series, that continues the story covered by "The Obsidian Trilogy". This tale takes place over a thousand years after the conclusion of The Obsidian Trilogy and chronicles the journey of Tiercel Rolfort and Harrier Gillain as they discover that Tiercel has become a Mage of the High Magick.He and Harrier must journey to the Isvanei Desert, to stop an unknown enemy from resurrecting an ancient evil. The novels are co-written by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. The series began with "The Phoenix Unchained", released in 2007, continued in