News
ROOM, my novel in the voice of the five-year-old Jack, who lives with his Ma in a locked room, has had the great fortune to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize before publication. Launched on 6 August by Picador, it has become a bestseller in Ireland and the UK already. It will follow 11 September in Canada from HarperCollins Canada, and 13 September in the U.S. from Little, Brown. ROOM will be available as a hardback, e-book and audiobook (in four voices).
Translation rights have been sold in seventeen languages. Waterstones Ireland, Easons, the UK’s Channel Five (Wright Stuff Reads) and BJ’s Book Club have all chosen ROOM as their Book of the Month and it has won the ELLE reader’s prize and made No. 1 on the September INDIE NEXT LIST.
In other news…
Harcourt (in the U.S.) are reissuing SLAMMERKIN in a beautiful new jacket.
Knopf (in the US) and Random House Canada (in Canada) have published my long-labour-of-love INSEPARABLE: DESIRE BEWTEEN WOMEN IN LITERATURE as a hardback and (my first) an e-book, to very nice reviews. The NEW YORK TIMES calls it ‘necessary for scholars and enlightening and often amusing for anyone else.’ Cleis Press will bring INSEPARABLE out in paperback.
EVENTS
3 September, ROOM is the featured book of the month on the UK’s Channel Five (The Wright Stuff)
Monday 13 September, reading at the Landon Library in LONDON, ONTARIO
Wednesday 15 September, reading organized by Ben McNally Books in Dora Keogh’s, TORONTO
Monday 20 September, reading at Schuler’s Books, 2820 Towne Center Blvd, LANSING, Michigan
Tuesday 21 September, reading at Borders, OAK BROOK, outside CHICAGO, Illinois
Wednesday 22 September, reading at Women and Children First, CHICAGO
Thursday 23 September, reading at Next Chapter, MEQUON, outside MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin
Friday 24 September, speaking at Siba trade show, DAYTONA BEACH, Florida
Saturday 25 September, reading at Barnes and Noble, CARY, North Carolina
Monday 27 September, reading at Word in BROOKLYN, New York
Tuesday 28 September, 12-1pm, live Q&A with Emma Donoghue on Indigo’s Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/ChaptersIndigo
Tuesday 28 September, reading at Irish Arts Centre, NEW YORK, NY
Wednesday 29 September, reading at Elliott Bay, SEATTLE, Washington
Thursday 30 September, reading at Powell’s, PORTLAND, Oregon
Friday 1 October, reading at Book Passage, CORTE MADERA, outside SAN FRANCISCO, California
15-16 October (date tbc), reading at Wordfest, CALGARY, Alberta
19-20 October (date tbc), reading at Vancouver Writers Festival, VANCOUVER
21 October, reading in LONDON, Ontario
22-24 October (date tbc), reading at International Festival of Authors, TORONTO
25-26 October, reading at Ottawa International Writers Festival, OTTAWA
RECENTLY IN PRINT
‘The Little Voices In Our Heads That Last a Lifetime’, by Emma Donoghue, IRISH TIMES, 7 August 2010,
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0807/1224276358845.html
‘Lesbian Mums’, by Emma Donoghue, TIMES, 7 August 2010
‘Room With a Panoramic View: How Emma Donoghue's Latest Novel Aims to Tell a Universal Story’, Boyd Tonkin, INDEPENDENT, 6 August 2010, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/room-with-a-panoramic-view-how-emma-donoghues-latest-novel-aims-to-tell-a-universal-story-2044373.html
‘I Knew I Wasn’t Being Voyeuristic’, Emma Donoghue interviewed by Sarah Crown, GUARDIAN, 13 August 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/13/emma-donoghue-room-josef-fritzl
‘Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature: Emma Donoghue examines top story arcs in labour of love’, Emma Donoghue interviewed by Alice Lawlor, XTRA (Toronto), 30 June 2010, http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Books_Inseparable_Desire_Between_Women_in_Literature-8858.aspx
‘Tableau Vivant’ by Emma Donoghue, in TOK: WRITING THE NEW TORONTO: BOOK 5 ed. By Helen Walsh, Toronto, Zephyr Press, 2010). A story about Clara Ford, a ‘mulatto seamstress’ acquitted of the murder of a white boy in Toronto in 1895.