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 ...

Anne Lister has been having a moment. Widely acknowledged as one of the first public lesbians of the modern era, she blazed a trail through 19th-century England, acquiring lovers, books and properties ...

Her new historical fiction takes place aboard a train packed full of a colorful cast. Read a sneak peek here. Emma Donoghue, whose bestseller novel Room rocked the world when it came out in 2010, has ...

Writer Emma Donoghue had a strong sense of what her novel Room might be like as a movie, so she wrote a screenplay version before the book was even published. Director Lenny Abrahamson read and loved ...

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Set at a Dublin hospital in the grip of the 1918 flu pandemic, Emma Donoghue’s 11th novel, “The Pull of the Stars,” grimly foreshadows present-day circumstances. “If In Doubt, Don’t Stir Out,” warn ...

Our critic on the month’s best releases. By Alida Becker From the dark heart of a misguided follower to the young hand of a diarist whose words outlived her, these novels encompass the full spectrum ...

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, Emma Donoghue is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic). She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart ...