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The bestselling author of Slammerkin vividly brings to life the Beau Monde of late eighteenth-century England, turning the private drama of three celebrated Londoners into a robust, full-bodied portrait of a world on the brink of revolution. In a time of looming war, of glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals of the Whig Party work to topple a tyrannical prime minister and a lunatic king. Marriages and friendships st...

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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 volumes of poetry and thirty historical tragedies, but perhaps their best work - richest in emotional honesty and wit - was the diary that the two women shared for a quarter of a century, and these unpubl...

Born in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who spent eight years in England before moving to Canada. Her fiction includes Slammerkin, Life Mask, Touchy Subjects and the international bestseller Room (shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes). In addition to Passions Between Women her non-fiction includes Inseparable and We are Michael Field.

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 subject of confusion and contradiction: she could be put in a freak show as a 'hermaphrodite', denounced as a 'tribade' or 'lesbian', revered as a 'romantic friend', jailed as a 'female husband' or gossip...

Endlessly inventive . . . This will keep you up at night' CosmopolitanSan Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the city.Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest.When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything - and leaving one of ...

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First collection of plays from the author of the bestselling novels Room and Frog Music, previously nominated for the Booker Prize and Orange Prize

Zomer 1876: San Francisco is in de greep van een ongekende hittegolf en een pokkenepidemie. Door het raam van een saloon wordt een jonge vrouw doodgeschoten, Jenny Bonnet. Haar vriendin Blanche Beunon, een Franse revuedanseres, zet alles op alles om Jenny s moordenaar voor het gerecht te brengen - als hij haar tenminste niet eerder te pakken krijgt. Maar wanneer Blanche probeert de feiten boven tafel te krijgen, blijkt het leven van Jenny vee...

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Kamer' is een beklemmende en fascinerende roman van Emma Donoghue die je nooit meer vergeet. Het verhaal begint op Jacks verjaardag, hij wordt al vijf. Jack leeft met Mam in Kamer, waarvan de deur op slot zit. Kamer heeft alleen een dakraam en is elf vierkante meter groot. Jack is dol op televisiekijken, Dora de Explorer is zijn vriendin, maar hij weet dat wat hij op televisie ziet niet echt is. Alleen hijzelf is echt, en Mam, en de dingen in ...

How do you make conversation with a sperm donor? How do you say someone's novel is drivel? Would you give a screaming baby brandy? In what words would you tell your girlfriend to pluck a hair on her chin? Touchy Subjects is about things that make people wince: taboos, controversies, secrets and lies. Some of the events that characters crash into are grand, tragic ones: miscarriage, overdose, missing persons, a mother who deserts her children....

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RAUM - ein Leben zu zweit auf 9m2. Es ist die außergewöhnliche Geschichte von Jack (Jacob Tremblay), einem lebhaften Fünfjährigen, um den sich seine liebende Mutter Ma (Brie Larson) kümmert. Wie jede Mutter will sie, dass Jack glücklich und sicher ist. Sie zieht ihn liebevoll auf, spielt mit ihm, erzählt ihm Geschichten - doch ihr beider Leben ist alles andere als normal. Sie sind gefangen in diesem Raum. Ma hat daher ein ganzes Universum inne...