Эмма Донохью — новинки

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers. Dragon. Tygress. She-Devil. Hussy. Siren. Wench. Harridan. Muckraker. Spitfire. Vituperator. Churail. Termagant. Fury. Warrior. Virago. For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up…

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers. Dragon. Tygress. She-Devil. Hussy. Siren. Wench. Harridan. Muckraker. Spitfire. Vituperator. Churail. Termagant. Fury. Warrior. Virago. For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our…

An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . . Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder - inspired by numerous cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller…

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. They talk in whispers, not to disturb the maids who lie sleeping on the other side of the box room. The question Eliza’s been needing to ask swells like a great berry in her mouth, and all at once she’s not scared to let it out, not…

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…

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 rows 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…

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a…

Книга, которая невероятно актуальна сегодня. Эмма Донохью рассказывает о страшной эпидемии, поразившей Европу в ХХ веке. В Ирландии, обескровленной войной, эпидемия «испанки» не сбавляет оборотов – в госпитале в центре Дублина не хватает докторов и сестер, а больные все прибывают. Под удар попадают и те, кому вынести его сложнее других – будущие матери на поздних…

Книга, которая невероятно актуальная сегодня. Эмма Донохью рассказывает о страшной эпидемии, поразившей Европу в ХХ веке. В Ирландии, обескровленной войной, эпидемия «испанки» не сбавляет оборотов – в госпитале в центре Дублина не хватает докторов и сестер, а больные все прибывают. Под удар попадают и те, кому вынести его сложнее других – будущие матери на…

В Ирландии, обескровленной войной, эпидемия "испанки" не сбавляет оборотов – в госпитале в центре Дублина не хватает докторов и сестер, а больные все прибывают. Под удар попадают и те, кому вынести его сложнее других – будущие матери на поздних сроках беременности. Медсестра Пауэр делает все, что в ее силах, чтобы спасти рожениц и помочь появиться новой жизни. В…