Cette autrice explore les relations humaines complexes et les thèmes de la liberté et de l'identité à travers des récits captivants. Ses œuvres, couvrant des cadres contemporains et historiques, plongent souvent dans les aspects plus sombres de la psyché humaine et la résilience de l'esprit humain face à l'adversité. Avec un sens aigu du détail et une profonde compréhension de la nature humaine, elle crée des personnages inoubliables et des intrigues prenantes qui résonnent chez les lecteurs bien après la dernière page.
Voices From the Forest City
Nestled amidst the lush forests of London, Ontario, and its surrounding communities, a vibrant tapestry of voices emerges from the trees. Out of the Woods brings together an extraordinary collection of stories and poems.
Set at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel follows a high-speed steam train journey, exploring the lives of its passengers and the secrets they harbor. As the train races through the landscape, tensions rise and hidden dangers emerge, revealing the complexities of human relationships and the impact of societal norms. Emma Donoghue crafts a gripping narrative that intertwines suspense with rich historical detail, making for an engaging exploration of the era's social dynamics.
'Compelling' Marie Claire * 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer * 'Fascinating' Red * One week into lockdown, the tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned buckets. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now - become real neighbours. With each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood to John Grisham and Celeste Ng, Fourteen Days is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. 'An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling... An impressive achievement' Observer 'Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)' Financial Times Includes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Erica Jong, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Doug Preston, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Meg Wolitzer and many more.
'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of HamnetIn seventh-century Ireland, a priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks with him - young Trian and old Cormac - he travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a new place of worship. 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. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean?'Haven is a beautiful, bold blaze of a book' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry'Beautiful and timely' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'Sinister, heart-wrenching and beautifully written' The Times'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect' Margaret Atwood via Twitter'Book of the Year' pick in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Irish Post, RTE and The Times.
Humanity has destroyed the Earth. Forced to seek a new home amongst the stars, the colonisers settle on the planet Diomedia after decades of travel. But this planet is no idyll. It is infested with parasitic creatures called Shades that attack humans but who are also, once processed, a source of energy which the colony needs to survive. Landmine Butcher and Longrider Erickson are Hunters who work for ShadeCo and they capture these Shades for the energy that their bodies generate.ShadeCo has always been a target for activists but recently hostilities against the company had escalated to breaking point. After the disappearance of Longrider's father, she sets off to find him with Landmine Butcher's begrudging assistance and finally bring an end to the violence. Little do they know, they're hurtling straight towards a terrible secret, hidden in the heart of the Shade-riddled desert...
The sensational new novel from the bestselling author of &i;>The Pull of the Stars&/i> and &i;>The Wonder&/i>.
The hugely anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room 'Beautiful and timely' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater 'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect.' - Margaret Atwood via Twitter Three men vow to leave the world behind them and start anew . . . 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 travels 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. Their extraordinary landing spot is now known as Skellig Michael. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? Haunting, moving and vividly told, Haven displays Emma Donoghue's trademark world-building and psychological intensity - but this tale is like nothing she has ever written before . . . Pre-order Learned by Heart, the dazzling new love story from Emma Donoghue.
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled in life, she makes up a bed with only the rubber mat and savors the weak tea and barely edible porridge from the hospital kitchen. But in the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways.
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.
Family celebrations are difficult to organize at the best of times, but when your family is made up of four parents, seven children and one grandfather, they're practically impossible . . . The second warm and funny children's book from international bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
