landing

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Harcourt (7 May 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0151012970
ISBN-13: 978-0151012978

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships-the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet.

Síle is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant who's traveled the world. Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. On her first plane trip, Jude's and Síle's worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. In the course of the next year, their lives, and those of their friends and families, will be drawn into a new, shaky orbit.

This sparkling, lively story explores age-old questions: Does where you live matter more than who you live with? What would you give up for love, and would you be a fool to do so?

Touchy Subjects

Hardcover: 280 pages
Publisher: Harcourt (Jun 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0151013861
ISBN-13: 978-0151013869

This collection of nineteen contemporary stories about taboos and embarrassment ranges from Ireland to Louisiana, Canada to Tuscany, and includes characters old, young, queer, straight, and simply confused. From the consequences of a polite social lie to the turmoil caused by a single hair on a woman’s chin, it dramatises the small acts upon which our lives often turn.

The woman who gave birth to rabbits

Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Harcourt (May 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0151009376
ISBN-13: 978-0151009374

This is a sequence of short stories about peculiar little incidents in the history of the British Isles, from a 1300s Satanist to an 1800s animal-rights campaign.  A Dutch translation is forthcoming. The book was a finalist in the 2003 Stonewall Book Award.

Slammerkin

Paperback: 422 pages
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New Ed edition (7 Jun 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 186049899X
ISBN-13: 978-1860498992

Inspired by a murder that took place in the Welsh Borders in 1763, Slammerkin (meaning a loose dress, and a loose woman) is Donoghue's first historical novel, a gripping study of a prostitute obsessed with clothes. It was a Main Selection of the Book of the Month Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club, a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction, a Barnes and Noble Discover Selection, a Book Sense 76 Selection, and one of the Notable Books of 2001 chosen by Publishers Weekly and the New York Times.  SLAMMERKIN has also been published in Dutch and Greek and is forthcoming in Portuguese.

Slammerkin

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: HarperTrophy; Reprint edition (April 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0064407721
ISBN-13: 978-0064407724

Kissing the Witch is a sequence of thirteen re-imagined fairytales, inspired by traditional European sources (Brothers Grimm, Perrault, Hans Anderson). Published for adults in the UK and for young adults in the US, it was shortlisted for a James Tiptree Award, and named an ALA Popular Paperback for Young Adults. KISSING THE WITCH has also been published in Dutch and Catalan and is forthcoming in Italian.

Hood

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (2 Mar 1995)
ISBN-10: 0241134439
ISBN-13: 978-0241134436

Winner of the 1997 American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award for Literature. Hood is a novel about bereavement and the closet, which follows Pen, a Dublin schoolteacher, through the first week after the death of her on-off lover of thirteen years, Cara.  HOOD has also been published in Dutch, Swedish, and Hebrew and is forthcoming in French.

Stir Fry

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (27 Jan 1994)
ISBN-10: 0241134420
ISBN-13: 978-0241134429

Lambda Literary Award Finalist 1994. Stirfry is a coming-of-age novel about Maria, a seventeen-year-old girl from rural Ireland who comes to university in Dublin and accidentally moves in with a lesbian couple.  Stirfry has also been published in Dutch, German and Spanish and is forthcoming in Italian.