Emma Donoghue, Author . Harcourt $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-100672-4
Donoghue takes scraps of the intriguing true story of Mary Saunders, a servant girl who murdered her mistress in 1763, and fashions from them an intelligent and mesmerizing historical novel. Born to a mother who sews for pennies and a father who...
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Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-39387-4
Donoghue demonstrates her versatility by dabbling in a wide range of literary styles in this latest novel. Set mostly in a small, spare room inside a shabby cabin in rural 1850s Ireland, the closely imagined, intricately drawn story possesses many...
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Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-32468-7
Donoghue’s first literary crime novel is a departure from her bestselling Room, but it’s just as dark and just as gripping as the latter. Based on the circumstances surrounding the grizzly real-life murder of Jenny Bonnet, a law-flouting, pants-weari
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Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-20629-7
The stories in Donoghue’s new collection all come, to varying degrees, from historical records; the author of Room, who studied 18th-century literature at Cambridge, has a gift for reading historical documents and picking out the odd, telling detail.
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Emma Donoghue, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017110-0
""I'm blithering, amn't I?"" asks Pen O'Grady, narrator of Donoghue's second novel (after Stir-Fry). Many readers will answer ""yes""--and that's a shame, because behind Pen's banal chattiness lies an agreeable and affecting story. Thirty-year-old...
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Emma Donoghue, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-017109-4
Donoghue's wry and tender debut tackles the interconnected themes of coming-out and coming-of-age. Strong-willed, shy and filled with vague feminist sentiments, 17-year-old Maria has left her small town to begin college--and what she hopes will be a
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Emma Donoghue, Author Absolute Press $9.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-899791-66-8
Author of some 30 plays and 11 books of poetry, Michael Field was a prolific if relatively minor late-Victorian literary figure. Field's first verse play, Callirrhoe and Fair Rosamund, was published to wide acclaim in 1884; what early reviewers didn'
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Emma Donoghue, Author Harper Teen $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-027575-4
In this stylized, lyrical collection of revisionist fairy tales, Cinderella falls in love with her fairy godmother, and Gretel remains loyal to the witch in the gingerbread house, who planned to skin Hansel like a rabbit only because of his repeated
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Emma Donoghue, Author Harper Teen $11.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-440772-4
Of this collection of 13 revisionist, overtly feminist fairy tales, PW said, ""Sophisticated teenagers (and adults too) will be mesmerized by the powerful voices and intricate structure, while the lesbian endings promise controversy."" Ages 12-up. (A
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Emma Donoghue, Little, Brown, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-09833-5
At the start of Donoghue's powerful new novel, narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a...
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Emma Donoghue, Author . Knopf $27.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8
“The past is a wild party; check your preconceptions at the door,” warns British literary historian and novelist Donoghue (Slammerkin
) in her comprehensive catalogue of a thousand years of Western literature. “[I]n Western culture
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Emma Donoghue, Author . Harcourt $26 (396p) ISBN 978-0-15-101549-8
In 1864 London, after a separation of seven years, Helen, now the wife of Vice-Admiral Codrington, bumps into her old friend Emily Faithful, now a well-known feminist and independent printer. As Donoghue (Slammerkin
) deliciously unspools the...
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Emma Donoghue, Author . Harcourt $25 (324p) ISBN 978-0-15-101297-8
In her affecting fifth novel, Donoghue (Slammerkin
) explores the idea that true love can conquer all. Jude Turner is a 25-year-old androgynous Luddite who's rooted to her small Canadian town of Ireland. She's also uneasy about flying, but...
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Emma Donoghue, Author . Harcourt $24 (280p) ISBN 978-0-15-101386-9
In contrast to previous books focused on feminist retellings of fairy tales (Kissing the Witch
) and revisionist imaginings of historical and folkloric female figures (The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
), Irish writer Donoghue's latest, a set...
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Emma Donoghue, Author . Harcourt $26 (650p) ISBN 978-0-15-100943-5
Few sexual liaisons among the gentry went unnoticed in 18th-century beau monde England—the gossip papers of the era make our own tabloid culture look respectful—and though fleeting same-sex affairs were somewhat fashionable, suspected...
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Emma Donoghue, read by Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Suzanne Toren, and Robert Petkoff, Hachette Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-60788-627-3
Five-year-old Jack and his Ma live and eat and play and sleep in one room—an 11×11-foot space that is their prison—captives of the terrifying man Jack calls Old Nick. But as Jack grows older and more curious, it becomes clear that the room will not...
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Emma Donoghue, illus. by Caroline Hadilaksono. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-545-92581-5
One of the most diverse families readers are likely to meet, the Lotterys—whose name was inspired by the winning lottery ticket that made a dream for a family come true—are four longtime friends turned coparents (a lesbian couple and a gay one) and...
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Emma Donoghue, read by Kate Lock. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-1-4789-1501-0
In the mid-19th century, English nurse Lib Wright is sent to a tiny Irish village for an unusual task. An 11-year-old girl, Anna, is being hailed as a miracle and potential saint because, it is claimed, she has eaten nothing in four months yet...
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Emma Donoghue, Author, Donoghue, Author . Harcourt $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-100937-4
In the spirit of her praised novel, Slammerkin, Donoghue has created a series of stories infused by a lively imagination. Set in England and Ireland, these 15 tales have their genesis in obscure bits of history and folklore, from which Donoghue...
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Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-49199-0
Donoghue’s underwhelming latest features a troubled doppelgänger of the sweet naïf from her best-known novel, Room, a foul-mouthed 11-year-old named Michael, whose great-uncle Noah takes him to the French Riviera to save him from the foster care...
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Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-49901-9
Donoghue’s searing tale (after Akin) takes readers to a Dublin beleaguered by wartime shortages and ravaged by a lethal new strain of influenza. On Halloween in 1918, nurse Julia Powers, single and ambivalent about marriage, is about to turn 30....
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Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-41393-0
Donoghue (The Pull of the Stars) returns with an intricate slow-burn about three monks who start a monastery on an isolated island in seventh-century Ireland. As it opens, priest Artt dreams about an island where he believes he’s to pilgrimage with...
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Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-56443-4
Donoghue (Haven) returns with an impressive story inspired by Eliza Raine, who was written about in Anne Lister’s coded diaries about her lesbian love life. At the beginning of the 19th century at a chilly boarding school in Yorkshire, 14-year-olds...
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Emma Donoghue. Summit, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-6680-8279-9
A French anarchist targets a passenger train in the taut latest from Donoghue (Learned by Heart), which is inspired by a true story. On Oct. 22, 1895, Mado Pelletier boards the express from Granville to Paris with a homemade bomb in tow. Born into...
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