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This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig togeth ...Show more
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel and the air rushes in, sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson, to ...Show more
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a h ...Show more
TransAtlantic by Colum Mccann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the mail being carried on the aircraft is a letter which will not be opened for almost one hun ...Show more
Zoli by Colum McCann
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: due Feb 2016
The novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her people out onto the frozen lake and forced them to stay there until the spring, when the ice cracked and everyone drowned - Zoli's parents, brothers and ...Show more
Zoli by Colum McCann
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A major new novel about a gypsy woman exiled for betraying her people, from the prize-winning author of Dancer (2003) and This Side of Brightness(1998)The novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her pe ...Show more