Donoghue, Emma 1969-

Room : a novel by Emma Donoghue( Book )
27 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in 7 languages and held by 3,089 libraries worldwide
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.

Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue( Book )
16 editions published between 2000 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,632 libraries worldwide
Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress, is lured into prostitution at age thirteen. Forced to flee from debt and a hired killer, Mary ends up in Monmouth, her mother's home town, where she tries to start a new life as a maid. Set in London and Monmouth and loosely based on a murder that took place in 1763.

Life mask by Emma Donoghue( Book )
8 editions published between 2004 and 2011 in English and held by 1,359 libraries worldwide
In eighteenth-century England, the eccentric widow Mrs. Damer works as the period's only woman sculptor, the horse race innovator Lord Derby endures public mockery, and a Drury Lane actress endeavors to gain entry into aristocratic circles.

The sealed letter by Emma Donoghue( Book )
9 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 1,113 libraries worldwide
Emily "Fido" Faithfull, a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, is distracted from her cause by the details of her friend's failing marriage and affair with a young army officer, in this drama of friends, lovers, and divorce, Victorian style.

Necessary noise : stories about our families as they really are( Book )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 926 libraries worldwide
A collection of ten stories about families and what they mean, describing both traditional and non-traditional families.

Landing by Emma Donoghue( Book )
6 editions published between 2007 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 882 libraries worldwide
Over the course of a year, the lives of two women--Sile, a flight attendant and world traveler, and Jude, a young archivist stubbornly attached to the town of Ireland, Ontario--intersect, in a story that reveals the joys and sorrows of a long-distance relationship.

Inseparable : desire between women in literature by Emma Donoghue( Book )
5 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 845 libraries worldwide
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. Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. She writes about the half-dozen contrasting girl-girl plots that have been retold throughout the centuries; explores the writings of Sade, Diderot, Balzac, Thomas Hardy, H. Rider Haggard, Elizabeth Bowen and others and the ways in which the woman who desires women has been cast as not quite human, as ghost or vampire; she writes about the ever-present triangle, in which a woman and a man compete for the heroine's love, and about how and why same-sex attraction is surprisingly ubiquitous in crime fiction, from the work of Wilkie Collins and Dorothy L. Sayers to that of P.D. James. Finally she examines the plotline that has dominated writings about desire between women since the late nineteenth century: how a woman's life is turned upside down by the realization that she desires another woman, showing how this narrative pattern has remained popular and how it has taken many forms--From publisher description.

Kissing the witch : old tales in new skins by Emma Donoghue( Book )
4 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and held by 800 libraries worldwide
A collection of thirteen interconnected stories that give old fairy tales a new twist.

Touchy subjects : stories by Emma Donoghue( Book )
4 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in English and held by 646 libraries worldwide
Nineteen stories focus on a theme of struggles in the private arena that are brought about as a result of public controversies, from an older man who finds religion and wants to have a child, to a coach's son who discovers his sexuality on a football field.

The woman who gave birth to rabbits : stories by Emma Donoghue( Book )
2 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 575 libraries worldwide
A collection of short stories depicts the bizarre sideshows of humanity lost to traditional history as seen through obscure historic records, including the tale of a seventeenth-century countess who ran away to Italy disguised as a man.