Emma Donoghue

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1993
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

Kissing the Witch (Dec-1993)

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Kissing the Witch (Dec-1993)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Kissing the Witch

    Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast
    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    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, somet...

  • Stir-Fry

    After coming to Dublin to study at the University, sharing a flat with two eccentric women, and becoming infatuated with a man who turns out to be gay, a teenage Irish girl discovers she is a lesbian. National ad/promo. Tour....

  • Hood

    In the late '70s Irish convent school teenager Pen O'Grady fell in love with fellow student Cara Wall. Pen, an appealing heroine who is feisty yet vulnerable, and Cara, a free spirit who follows no path but her own, prove themselves to be up to the c...

  • The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories

    An international cadre of outstanding lesbian authors offers a new collection of short fiction, including several original works, by Emma Donoghue, Tanith Lee, Jennifer Levin, Shani Mootoo, Dorothy Allison, Patricia Dunker, Sara Maitland, and others....

  • Slammerkin

    From Emma Donoghue, the national bestselling author of Room, Slammerkin is "[a] colorful romp of a novel" (The New York Times Book Review) following one woman's journey of self-discovery and survival at the dawn of the industrial revolution in eighte...

  • The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits

    Emma Donoghue vividly brings to life stories inspired by her discoveries of fascinating, hidden scraps of the past. Here an engraving of a woman giving birth to rabbits, a plague ballad, surgical case notes, theological pamphlets, and an articulated ...

  • Vanitas

    in Like A Charm

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...

  • Life Mask

    Privilege has a price for three high-society Londoners in this eighteenth-century historical novel by the author of Room and The Pull of the Stars. In a time of looming war, of glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals of the...

  • Touchy Subjects

    ‘Excellent new collection… Her touch is so light and exuberantly inventive, her insight at once so forensic and intimate, her people so ordinary even in their oddities. … Unnervingly exact.’ " GuardianIn this sparkling collection of ni...



  • Landing

    Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue's fifth novel, Landing, is a story about how far people will step outside their comfort zones to be with the ones they love. Told through the eyes of Sile O'Shaughnessy, a cosmopolitan Irish flight attendant, and ...

  • The Sealed Letter

    Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of her once-dear friend, the unhappily wed ...

  • Inseparable

    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...

  • Room

    To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where Jack is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, ...

  • Astray

    The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders...

  • Love Alters

    With this anthology, honoured on first publication as a Lambda Literary Award finalist, Emma Donoghue offers an eloquent and timely definition of the modern lesbian short story. Breaking out beyond North American writer, she assembles an impressively...

  • Frog Music

    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 Fren...

  • Passions Between Women

    Passions Between Women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Far from being invisible, the figure of the woman who felt passion for women in this period was a subj...

  • We are Michael Field

    In this profile, Emma Donoghue tells the story of two eccentric Victorian spinsters: Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913); poets and lovers, who wrote together under the name of Michael Field. They wrote eleven volu...

  • Emma Donoghue

    The first collection of plays from Booker Prize and Orange Prize finalist and author of international bestseller Room, Emma Donoghue.Contains the plays Kissing the Witch, Don’t Die Wondering, Trespasses, Ladies and Gentlemen, and I Know My Own ...



  • Since First I Saw Your Face

    in Reader, I Married Him

    A short story by Emma Donoghue from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.‘Since First I Saw Your Face’ reimagines a relationship between two notable Victorian women.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Re...

  • The Wonder

    In the latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save...

  • The Lotterys Plus One

    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 learni...

  • The Lotterys More or Less

    Sumac Lottery is the keeper of her family's traditions -- from Pow Wow to Holi, Carnival to Hogmanay, Sumac's on guard to make sure that no Lottery celebration gets forgotten. But this winter all Sumac's seasonal plans go awry when a Brazilian visito...

  • Akin

    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'...

  • The Pull of the Stars

    In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center,...

  • Haven

    In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guid...

  • Learned by Heart

    “A wrenching love story” (Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post) based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. D...

  • The Paris Express

    Emma Donoghue, the “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in ...

Award-Winning Books by Emma Donoghue

Hood
1997 Stonewall Book Award -- Fiction
Room
2010 Goodreads Choice Award -- Fiction
2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize -- Fiction
2011 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
2011 Indies Choice Book Award -- Fiction
2011 Libris Award -- Fiction
2012 Kentucky Bluegrass Award -- Grades 9-12
Slammerkin
2002 Triangle Award -- Lesbian Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Emma Donoghue has published 28 books.

The next book by Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch, was published in December 1993.

No. Emma Donoghue does not write books in series.
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