It is 1895, and turn-of-the-century Paris is as chaotic as it is glamorous. Industry and invention have created ever greater wealth and terrible poverty. One autumn morning, an anarchist boards the Granville to Paris express train, determined to make her mark on history.Aboard the train are others from across the globe: the railway crew who have built a life together away from their wives, a little boy travelling alone for the first time, an artist far from home, a wealthy statesman and his invalid wife, and a young woman with a secret hidden under her dress.All their fates are bound together as the train speeds towards the City of Light . . .

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Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last forever.'Emma Donoghue is a genius of compassion. In our fractured world she brings a great sense of repair to us all.' - Colum McCann, internationally bestselling author of Let the Great World SpinEliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. The question Eliza's been needing to ask swells like a great berry in her mouth, and all at once she's not scared to let it out, not scared at all, not scared of anything . . .In 1805 fourteen-year-old Eliza Raine is a schoolgirl at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father, Eliza was banished from Madras to this unfamiliar country at the age of six. At the Manor School she keeps her head down and follows all the rules, until the arrival of a charismatic and fearless new student, Anne Lister. The two outsiders are thrown together and soon Eliza's life is turned upside down by this remarkable young woman.Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue's mesmerising new novel, tells the heartbreaking true story of two women whose unlikely relationship will change them for ever.

Three men vow to leave the world behind them. They set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael. Haven, Emma Donoghue's gripping and moving novel, has her trademark psychological intensity - but this story is like nothing she has ever written before. 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 rows 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. In such a place, what will survival mean?

Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . .Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes.

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Irsko bylo zpustošeno hned nadvakrát ? nejprve válkou a pak epidemií španělské chřipky. Julie Powerová pracuje jako zdravotní sestra v dublinské nemocnici na oddělení pro nemocné nastávající matky. Nemocnice se potýká s velkým nedostatkem zdravotnického personálu, a do tohoto uzavřeného světa vstoupí dvě ženy: doktorka Kathleen Lynnová, která je na útěku před policií, a mladá dobrovolnice Bridie Sweeneyová. Během tří dnů, kdy se neúnavně starají o své pacientky a přivádějí na svět nový život, se jim všem obrátí život vzhůru nohama...

Vynikající psychologický román od držitelky řady cen a autorky mezinárodní bestselleru Pokoj. Zdravotní sestra Lib Wrightová, profesionálka vycvičená samotnou Florence Nightingalovou, přijíždí v polovině 19. století na irský venkov, kde žije údajně zázračná jedenáctiletá dívka Anna. Už po čtyři měsíce nesnědla jediné sousto, a přitom se těší dobrému zdraví. Lib je pověřena lékařským výborem, aby odhalila domnělý podvod, zdá se však, že dívka nic nepředstírá. Je to skutečně zázrak? Anebo za tím stojí fanaticky zbožná rodina? Lib se s Annou velmi sblíží, a proto ji vyděsí, když se její stav začne náhle rapidně zhoršovat…

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Frog Music is an atmospheric and gripping novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room, adapted as a major motion picture directed by Lenny Abrahamson. San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything - and leaving one of them dead. Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music, a New York Times bestseller, is a dark and compelling story of intrigue and murder.

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Strhující román o síle dětské nevinnosti a odvahy, nominovaný na Man Booker Prize. Kniha byla v roce 2015 také úspěšně zfilmována. – Pokoj je to jediné, co pětiletý Jack za svůj život poznal. Je to místo, kde se narodil, kde vyrůstá, kde žije v bezpečí se svou Mami. Celý den si hrají, učí se, cvičí nebo si čtou. V noci ho Mami schovává do Skříně, aby ho neviděl muž, co za ní občas chodí. Jack má z něho strach. Jackova mladá matka ví, že Pokoj je ve skutečnosti vězení. Jednoho dne se v její hlavě zrodí plán úniku. Pomyslela ale na to, co je vlastně doopravdy čeká Venku?

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