Emma Donoghue’s novel takes as its inspiration the true story of a 19th-century accident on a French railway.

The designer speaks to Kin Woo about bringing her eye for colour, romance and nature to her French country garden, in the ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks author Emma Donoghue about her new historical thriller that centers on the French railway disaster of 1895.

The first chapter of this gripping thriller opens with a fitting epigraph from the poet Edna St Vincent Millay: “There isn’t ...

EMMA DONOGHUE: An express train set off from Granville on the Normandy coast and headed straight for Paris. It was only meant to stop four times along the route, and it was meant to get in by 4 o ...

When the Irish writer Emma Donoghue learned she would be spending a year in Paris, relocating with her partner from their usual home in Ontario, she began searching for information about her new ...

Why should you take an interest in this particular railway journey?” the narrator of Emma Donoghue’s new novel asks the reader. “[Why] care about this one express from Granville on the morning of the ...

When we board in Granville on the coast of Normandy, in the autumn of 1895, we know that locomotive 721 will transport us to all the glamour, danger and chaos of fin-de-siecle Paris, the City of ...