In this sparkling collection of nineteen stories, the bestselling author of Slammerkin returns to contemporary affairs, exposing the private dilemmas that result from some of our most public...
Search Results
Search found 17 item
-
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:Genre: Short stories -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:THE NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOM Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love,...
Genre: Historical fiction, Medical fiction -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:"Lib Wright, a young English nurse trained by legendary Florence Nightingale, arrives in an impoverished Irish village with a strange mission. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell is said to...
-
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew with him to the French Riviera where he attempts to uncover his mother's wartime secrets.
Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
The Honourable Mrs. Damer is a young widow of eccentric tastes, the only female sculptor of her time. The Earl of Derby, inventor of the horse race that bears his name, is the richest man in the...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
A man finds God and finally wants to father a child-- only his wife is now forty-three years old. A coach's son discovers his sexuality on the football field. A roommate's bizarre secret...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
Based on the details of a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864, The Sealed Letter is a provocative historical drama that is strangely relevant to modern issues surrounding women,...
Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
An ad in the students' union "2 females seek flatmate. No bigots" leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael. But one day, something Maria glimpses by accident...
Genre: Bildungsromans -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for velvet and lace'a desire that leads her to a life of prostitution, where she encounters a freedom unknown to...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships-the kind...
Genre: Humorous fiction, Romance fiction -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
In the late '70s, convent school teenagers Pen O'Grady and Cara Wall fall in love. They prove themselves to be up to the challenge of a relationship deemed unacceptable in Catholic...
-
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
It is 1876, and San Francisco, the freewheeling "Paris of the West," is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
Goldminer. Counterfeiter. Slave. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The colourful, fascinating characters that roam the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
Sumac Lottery is the fifth of seven kids in her (Very) large, (Extremely) unruly family. With four parents, a parrot, a dog, a rat and two cats, the sprawling Victorian house they call Camelottery...
Genre: Juvenile fiction