Colum McCann

• Mar-2025
• / Literary

An “urgent [and] ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin�...

• Feb-2024
• / General Fiction

"American Mother is a book that will shake your soul out."—StingNational Book Award-winning author Colum McCann channels Diane Foley’s voice as she tells her story, as the mother of American journalist Jim Foley – i...

• Feb-2020
• / Literary

From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. Colum McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon -- named for a s...

• Oct-2015
• / Literary

In such acclaimed novels as "Let the Great World Spin" and "TransAtlantic," National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more th...

• Mar-2014
• / Literary

• Jun-2013
• / Historical

McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined. Newfo...

• Jul-2009
• / General Fiction

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-LevittIn the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the...

• Jan-2007
• / Historical

A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature. Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling G...

• Feb-2004
• / General Fiction

The National Book Award�"winning author's biographical novel of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev: "Exuberant and exhilarating . . . a brilliant leap of imagination" (San Francisco Chronicle). In Dancer, Colum McCann tells the ballet i...

• Feb-2004
• / General Fiction

Short stories of exile, loss, love, and displacement by the National Book Award�"winning, New York Times�"bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin. There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rum...

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction

From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City.In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandh...

• Mar-2001
• / General Fiction

The National Book Award�"winning author reveals the echoes of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of people during Northern Ireland's Troubles.Writing in a new form, but with the skill and force and sparkling poetry that have brought him in...

• Oct-1995
• / General Fiction

A mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present from the National Book Award�"winning author. With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tra...