The Firewatcher Chronicles: Brimstone
Kelly Gardiner
Scholastic Australia
Pub. 2019

September 02, 2021

“Nobody noticed the boy who trudged wearily down the stone stairs, opened a door in the river wall, and passed into another life.”

Christopher Larkham can hear the Luftwaffe engines well before anyone else and is a first-class fire watcher during the Blitz of 1940. He would have never imagined that he could intervene between two different centuries. But when he finds a glowing ring on the mudflats of the river Thames, his life conspicuously changes and he finds himself disbelievingly witnessing the crackling flames jump from rooftop to rooftop during The Great Fire of London in 1666.  Read more