The Blood Stone

Jamila Gavin is a British writer born in Mussoorie in the United Province of India, in the present-day state of Uttarakhand in the Western Himalayas. She is known mainly for children's books, including several with Indian origins.

The Surya trilogy – The Wheel of Surya, The Eye of the Horse and The Track of the Wind – is a family saga following two generations of Indian Sikhs and showing the impact of the British Empire and the Partition of India on their lives. All three books made the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize shortlist; The Wheel of Surya was special runner-up.

Coram Boy won the 2000 Whitbread Prize as Children's Book of the Year. It is set in the 18th century, based on the Foundling Hospital established in London by sea Captain Thomas Coram. According to a local newspaper, the story "has links to Gloucestershire."

Coram Boy has been adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson and produced by the Royal National Theatre in 2005-2006, garnering Edmundson an Olivier Award, as well on Broadway in 2007.