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Ирландия середины XIX века. Внимание общественности привлечено к одиннадцатилетней девочке, которая вот уже четыре месяца обходится без еды, но чувствует себя живой и здоровой. В глухую ирландскую деревушку со всего света стекаются желающие поглазеть на чудо. Что на самом деле служит ей пищей для тела и души? Что это — чудо или кто-то манипулирует ребенком, чтобы погубить его?

Красавица Хелен, дерзкая искательница развлечений, не боится рисковать, и в какой-то момент о ее измене становится известно мужу - адмиралу Кодрингтону. Чтобы избежать огласки и развода, Хелен задумывает интригу, в которую вовлекает старую деву Эмили Фейтфул. Пожилой муж, ветреная жена и близкая подруга образуют роковой треугольник. Их сложные отношения дают толчок к стремительному и неожиданному развитию сюжета, за которым читатель напряженно следит до самой последней страницы, как в настоящем детективе. Роман основан на действительно происходившем в 1864 г. бракоразводном процессе "Кодрингтон против Кодрингтон и Андерсона", подробные…

В Ирландии, обескровленной войной, эпидемия "испанки" не сбавляет оборотов – в госпитале в центре Дублина не хватает докторов и сестер, а больные все прибывают. Под удар попадают и те, кому вынести его сложнее других – будущие матери на поздних сроках беременности. Медсестра Пауэр делает все, что в ее силах, чтобы спасти рожениц и помочь появиться новой жизни. В канун Дня Всех Святых в ее маленькое царство вступают еще две необыкновенные женщины – молоденькая волонтерка Брэйди Суини и доктор Кейтлин Линн, суфражистка, которая, по слухам скрывается от полиции из-за участия в восстании. За три дня их судьбы сплетутся невероятно крепко,…

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…

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 millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet. Síle is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant who's traveled the world. Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. On her first plane trip, Jude's and Síle's worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. In the course of the next year, their lives, and those of their…

Действие романа происходит в Лондоне в середине восемнадцатого века. Жизнь Мэри Сондерс, девочки из бедной семьи, сера и безрадостна. Ее невинное желание иметь хоть что-нибудь яркое - например, красную ленту - приводит к необратимым последствиям. В совсем еще юном возрасте Мэри становится проституткой и неожиданно узнает, что такое настоящая свобода, недоступная добродетельным женщинам. И все же опасность, которой она подвергается, заставляет девушку искать прибежища в небольшом городке Монмуте. Мэри становится служанкой, а затем и помощницей швеи в семье Джонс. Миссис Джонс питает к ней искреннюю привязанность, однако Мэри, движимая мечтами о лучшей доле и желанием скопить побольше денег, тайно возвращается к прежнему ремеслу. Она руководствуется тремя правилами, выученными на улицах Лондона: никогда не расставайся со своей свободой, женщину делает одежда и одежда - это самый большой обман на свете. В конце концов именно тяга к красивым платьям и приводит ее к катастрофе

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. They talk in whispers, not to disturb the maids who lie sleeping on the other side of the box room. 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 school girl at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father, Eliza was banished to this unfamiliar country as a little girl. When she first stepped off the King George in Kent, Eliza was accompanied by her older sister, Jane, but now she boards alone at the Manor, with no one left to claim her. She spends her days avoiding the attention of her fellow pupils until, one day, a fearless and charismatic new student arrives at the school. The two girls are immediately thrown together and soon Eliza’s life is turned inside out by this strange and curious young woman.

Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue’s mesmerising new novel, tells the heartbreaking story of the tangled lives of two women whose intense, and unlikely, relationship will change them for ever.

Seventeen and sure of nothing, Maria has left her parents' small-town grocery for university life in Dublin. An ad in the Student Union-"2 [FEMALE SYMBOL] seek flatmate. No bigots."-leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael, students who are older and more fascinating than she'd expected. A poignant, funny, and sharply insightful coming-of-age story, Stir-fry is a lesbian novel that explores the conundrum of desire arising in the midst of friendship and probes feminist ideas of sisterhood and nonpossessiveness.

Emma Donoghue is the author of the forthcoming Slammerkin , Hoodand Kissing the Witch . Born in Dublin, she now lives in Ontario, Canada. Stir-fry was her first novel.

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?

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 has Emma Donoghue’s trademark world-building and psychological intensity—but this story is like nothing she has ever written before.

With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito.
A sequence of fourteen fact-inspired fictions about travels to, in and from North America, Astray offers a past in scattered pieces, a surprising and moving history for restless times.

From a writer of astonishing versatility and erudition, the much-admired literary critic, novelist, short-story writer, and scholar (“Dazzling”—The Washington Post; “One of those rare writers who seems to be able to work on any register, any time, any atmosphere, and make it her own” —The Observer), a book that explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. Emma Donoghue brings to bear all her knowledge and grasp to examine how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls…

Sumac Lottery is nine years old and the self-proclaimed "good girl" of her (VERY) large, (EXTREMELY) unruly family. And what a family the Lotterys are: four parents, children both adopted and biological, and a menagerie of pets, all living and learning together in a sprawling house called Camelottery. Then one day, the news breaks that one of their grandfathers is suffering from dementia and will be coming to live with them. And not just any grandfather; the long dormant "Grumps," who fell out with his son so long ago that he hasn't been part of any of their lives.

Suddenly, everything changes. Sumac has to give up her room to make the newcomer feel at home. She tries to be nice, but prickly Grumps clearly disapproves of how the Lotterys live: whole grains, strange vegetables, rescue pets, a multicultural household... He's worse than just tough to get along with -- Grumps has got to go! But can Sumac help him find a home where he belongs?

Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead.

The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts.

In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other.

Что такое свобода? И кто свободнее – человек, ни разу в жизни не покидавший четырех стен, в которых родился, и черпающий знания об окружающем мире из книг и через экран телевизора? Или тот, кто живет снаружи? Для маленького Джека таких вопросов не существует. Он счастлив, с ним его мама, он не знает, что по чьему-то злобному умыслу вынужден жить не так, как живут другие. Но иллюзия не бывает вечной, маленький человек взрослеет, и однажды наступает прозрение. Тогда комната становится тесной и нужно срочно отыскать способ, как выбраться за ее пределы.