The Paris Express
by Emma Donoghue
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Pub Date 20 Mar 2025 | Archive Date 20 Mar 2025
Pan Macmillan | Picador
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Description
'Clever, ambitious . . . a smartly structured novel that ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as fast as the train itself' Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam
It is 1895. A high-speed steam train is the emblem of progress. Industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and poverty. One autumn day an anarchist boards the Granville to Paris Express.
The train carries others from all over the globe: the railway workers who have built a life together away from their wives, a little boy travelling alone for the first time, an artist far from home, a wealthy statesman and his invalid wife, and a young woman with a secret hidden under her dress.
The Paris Express is a thrilling ride and a literary masterpiece that captures the politics, fear, and chaos of the end of the 19th century.
Advance Praise
'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
'Donoghue's talents are at such glorious heights in this novel' Heather O'Neill, author of The Capital of Dreams
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781035057269 |
| PRICE | £18.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 288 |
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Featured Reviews
John V, Reviewer
Imagine a film. Something like Murder on the Orient Express. How all the characters develop, first on the platform, then on the train itself. How the staff on the train work as a team and of course the elite footplate staff, the engineer and fireman. Can you almost smell the scene? Coal, steam and oil?
Emma Donoghue manages to make paper become celluloid in her delivery of The Paris Express. It's so well done, I wouldn't be surprised if in fact it does become celluloid and appears at a cinema near you.
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