Emma Donoghue Books

Family celebrations are difficult to organize at the best of times, but when your family is made up of four parents, seven children and one grandfather, they're practically impossible . . . The second warm and funny children's book from international bestselling author Emma Donoghue.

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled in life, she makes up a bed with only the rubber mat and savors the weak tea and barely edible porridge from the hospital kitchen. But in the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways.

It's Jack's birthday and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside.

Exquisitely written and richly detailed, this novel is a marvel. Kate Manning's rags-to-riches saga vividly portrays nineteenth-century New York City, showcasing both its squalor and opulence. The story introduces Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine whose journey begins on the streets of 1860s New York as the impoverished child of Irish immigrants. She rises to become one of the wealthiest and most controversial women of her time. In vivid prose, Axie recounts her forced separation from her family, her apprenticeship to a doctor, and how she and her husband transform the sale of "Lunar Tablets for Female Complaint" into a thriving midwifery business. Defying convention and the law in the name of women's reproductive rights, Axie ascends from grim tenements to a Fifth Avenue mansion, accumulating wealth while learning to distrust men who say "trust me." As her services attract scandalous headlines, Axie faces off against Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. It takes all her cunning to outsmart him and protect her freedom. Inspired by the true history of an infamous female physician dubbed "the Wickedest Woman in New York," this narrative is a mystery, family saga, and love story, offering a detailed portrait of nineteenth-century America through Axie's haunting and enlightening voice.

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Room, a book that explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature.

Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed. Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin. 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another.First self-published in 1969 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country.Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.Features an appendix of supplementary materials about Patience & Sarah and the author, as well as an introduction by acclaimed novelist Emma Donoghue.

The sensational new novel from the bestselling author of &i;>The Pull of the Stars&/i> and &i;>The Wonder&/i>.

Seven of Irelands most accomplished female writers have crafted between them this delightfully entertaining novel. Featuring authors Maeve Binchy and Deirdre Purcell.