Эмма Донохью – лучшие книги

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.

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

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?

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers.
Dragon. Tygress. She-Devil. Hussy. Siren. Wench. Harridan. Muckraker. Spitfire. Vituperator. Churail. Termagant. Fury. Warrior. Virago.
For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.

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.

Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone to look after him. Out of a feeling of obligation, Noah agrees to take Michael along on his trip.

Much has changed in this famously charming seaside mecca, still haunted by memories of the Nazi occupation. The unlikely duo, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, bicker about everything from steak frites to screen time. But Noah gradually comes to appreciate the boy's truculent wit, and Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past. Both come to grasp the risks people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.

Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room an international bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy, born two generations apart, who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.

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?

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.

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 controversies. A man finds God and finally wants to

This book is a sequence of short stories about peculiar little incidents in the history of the British Isles, from a 1300s Satanist to an 1800s animal-rights campaign.
THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO RABBITS was a finalist in the 2003 Stonewall Book Award.

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.