Timothy Egan

A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan is an enthralling historical thriller that takes readers deep into the heart of America's darkest era in the 1920s—a time when the Ku Klux Klan's hateful influence was at its peak. Set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, a period often romanticised for its societal excess and jazz-fuelled revelry, Egan unveils...

This National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history—the Dust Bowl that terrorised the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression—from the shadows. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through...

The Immortal Irishman is a gripping narrative by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan that vividly brings to life the epic journey of Thomas Francis Meagher, a dashing orator and leader during Ireland's Great Hunger of the 1840s. Meagher's story begins with his valiant but doomed attempt to ignite a revolution against British rule, an effort that leads to his exile...