An Evening with Emma Donoghue
Schedule
Fri Apr 25 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-03:00Location
Florence Simmons Performance Hall | Charlottetown, PE
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Bookmark is excited to be welcoming bestselling, award-winning novelist Emma Donoghue to Charlottetown for the launch of her new book The Paris Express, on April 25th at 7 pm in the Florence Simmons Performance Hall at Holland College. The evening will be moderated by Deirdre Kessler.This free, ticketed event is open to everyone - so bring your book club. Tickets are available online by clicking the link below or by calling the store at 902-566-4888.
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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 history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close as Brittany and as far as Russia, Ireland, Algeria, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia. Members of parliament hurry back to Paris to vote; a medical student suspects a girl may be dying; a secretary tries to convince her boss of the potential of moving pictures; two of the train’s crew build a life away from their wives; a young anarchist makes a terrifying plan, and much more.
From an author whose “writing is superb alchemy” (Audrey Niffenegger, New York Times bestselling author), The Paris Express is an evocative masterpiece that effortlessly captures the politics, glamour, chaos, and speed that marked the end of the 19th century.
EMMA DONOGHUE is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Her novel Room has sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Wonder was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Donoghue co-wrote the screen adaptation. The Pull of the Stars was nominated for the Trillium Book Award and Scotiabank Giller Prize. Donoghue's fiction ranges from the contemporary to the historical and includes two books for young readers.
Deirdre Kessler lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. She is the author of more than two dozen books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and is a former Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island. For many years, Deirdre has been a sessional professor of children’s literature, creative writing, and the course on L.M. Montgomery with the Department of English at the University of Prince Edward Island
Praise of The Paris Express
“Donoghue's talents are at such glorious heights in this novel, the reader feels as though they are on the titular train, bustling next to strangers, staring out the window, and hurtling towards Paris. And it's near impossible to put the book down until it reaches its final destination. Donoghue beautifully crafts a world that captures the vitality and smells and sights of Victorian France, while investigating the different classes who inhabited the same spaces, but lived worlds apart....Donoghue's train is a microcosm of Paris of the times, ready to explode.” — Heather O’Neill, author of The Capital of Dreams
“Captivating! Emma Donoghue writes in rich, luxuriant detail, yet the story moves at a exhilarating clip. The Paris Express brings big questions about human interconnectedness into an edge-of-your-seat historical thriller that I couldn’t put down.” — Shelby Van Pelt, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Clever, ambitious, and richly researched. A slice of 1890s Paris that makes us see that our modern problems aren’t so modern after all! The Paris Express is a smartly structured novel that ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as fast as the doomed train itself." — Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam
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Where is it happening?
Florence Simmons Performance Hall, Holland College, 140 Weymouth Street,Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
