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Emma Donoghue

    October 24, 1969
    Emma Donoghue
    Room
    The Pull of the Stars
    Emma Donoghue
    The Lotterys More or Less
    We are Michael Field
    The Lovely Bones. Room. Bridget Jones's Diary
    • 2025

      The Paris Express

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Set at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel follows a high-speed steam train journey, exploring the lives of its passengers and the secrets they harbor. As the train races through the landscape, tensions rise and hidden dangers emerge, revealing the complexities of human relationships and the impact of societal norms. Emma Donoghue crafts a gripping narrative that intertwines suspense with rich historical detail, making for an engaging exploration of the era's social dynamics.

      The Paris Express
    • 2023

      'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of HamnetIn seventh-century Ireland, a priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks with him - young Trian and old Cormac - he travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a new place of worship. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean?'Haven is a beautiful, bold blaze of a book' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry'Beautiful and timely' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'Sinister, heart-wrenching and beautifully written' The Times'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect' Margaret Atwood via Twitter'Book of the Year' pick in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Irish Post, RTE and The Times.

      Haven: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room
    • 2023

      Humanity has destroyed the Earth. Forced to seek a new home amongst the stars, the colonisers settle on the planet Diomedia after decades of travel. But this planet is no idyll. It is infested with parasitic creatures called Shades that attack humans but who are also, once processed, a source of energy which the colony needs to survive. Landmine Butcher and Longrider Erickson are Hunters who work for ShadeCo and they capture these Shades for the energy that their bodies generate.ShadeCo has always been a target for activists but recently hostilities against the company had escalated to breaking point. After the disappearance of Longrider's father, she sets off to find him with Landmine Butcher's begrudging assistance and finally bring an end to the violence. Little do they know, they're hurtling straight towards a terrible secret, hidden in the heart of the Shade-riddled desert...

      In the Company of Shadows
    • 2023

      The heartbreaking story of the love of two women - Anne Lister, the real-life inspiration behind Gentleman Jack, and her first love, Eliza Raine - from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. 'A rich and spellbinding 19th-century story of forbidden love' - Independent 'Donoghue evokes a relationship that is convincing and exquisitely touching.' - The Guardian In 1805, at a boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-old girls first meet. Eliza Raine, the orphan daughter of an Indian mother, keeps herself apart from the other girls, tired of being picked out for being different. Anne Lister, a gifted troublemaker, is determined to conquer the world, refusing to bow to society's expectations of what a woman can do. As they fall in love, the connection they forge will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Full of passion and heartbreak, evocative and wholly unique, Learned by Heart is a beautiful and moving historical novel from acclaimed author Emma Donoghue. Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize

      Learned By Heart
    • 2022

      The hugely anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room 'Beautiful and timely' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater 'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect.' - Margaret Atwood via Twitter Three men vow to leave the world behind them and start anew . . . In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks - young Trian and old Cormac - he travels down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. Their extraordinary landing spot is now known as Skellig Michael. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? Haunting, moving and vividly told, Haven displays Emma Donoghue's trademark world-building and psychological intensity - but this tale is like nothing she has ever written before . . . Pre-order Learned by Heart, the dazzling new love story from Emma Donoghue.

      Haven
    • 2020

      The Pull of the Stars

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.1(1026)Add rating

      In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews) 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 come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders -- Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.

      The Pull of the Stars
    • 2019

      Akin

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.8(231)Add rating

      A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.

      Akin
    • 2018

      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.

      The Lotterys More or Less
    • 2017

      The Lotterys Plus One

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.5(30)Add rating

      The one thing in life that never changes . . . is that sooner or later things change. Full of warmth and heart, a first novel for children from Emma Donoghue, internationally award-winning and bestselling author of Room

      The Lotterys Plus One
    • 2016

      Signatories

      • 137 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Signatories comprises the artistic responses of Emma Donoghue, Thomas Kilroy, Hugo Hamilton, Frank McGuinness, Rachel Fehily, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Marina Carr and Joseph O'Connor to the seven signatories and Nurse O'Farrell. They portray the emotional struggle in this ground-breaking theatrical and literary commemoration of Ireland's turbulent past.

      Signatories