This cinematic book takes readers along on a steam engine’s journey through the night, from a city to a small town. Varied landscapes as well as color shifts show the passage of time from dusk to night to dawn. The rhythmic text is perfect for bedtime reading, and train lovers young and old will appreciate the various railway details incorporated in the text and art. Night train wakens to the dusk, groggy, stretching, load and roll, load and roll. Bringing warmth and wonder to the night, this book will send young readers off to sleep dreaming of the steady train journeying through the night.
The book hangs around in the mind like smoke in a jazz club’ Telegraph Magazine
In The Night Train, Edgerton's trademark humor reminds us of our divided national history and the way music has helped bring us together.
In her 1968 memoir The Past is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg described how 'propaganda posters hung unnoticed in red and black tatters from the shrapnelpitted walls ... the windowless trains ... carried a rudderless crowd of soldiers, ...
The bestselling novel of love and sacrifice under fascist rule, and “a treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time” (Isabel Allende).
Ride the rails of the night train in this beautifully rendered journey conducted by renowned artist Wendell Minor and frequent collaborator Robert Burleigh.
This seminal book reveals how black labor was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from history.
“ Mr. Hunter , we were only talking . I know I shouldn't have come over so late , but ” “ Do you think I don't know what's going on ? ” " Dad ! ” “ What ? ” " Shut up ! Just shut up ! ” “ Don't tell me to shut up , you little slut !
‘A mesmerising story of love and hope...the best book that I have read this year’ Penny, Reader Review The most heartbreaking historical fiction novel you will read this year from the USA Today bestseller!
Chug-a-chug, the night night train Is a’rumblin’ ’round the track!
Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of a classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power and pride are brought low ...