Emma Donoghue’s tales are always unexpected. “Room,” which became a phenomenal best seller, was narrated by a child held captive from birth in a soundproof cell. Her newest, “Frog Music,” is a ...

In 1870s San Francisco, in the midst of a debilitating smallpox epidemic and a rancid heat wave, a cross-dressing, frog-hunting, bicycling itinerant singer named Jenny Bonnet is murdered. In Emma ...

The second in a series of posts in which we ask writers about the cultural influences on their work. I often draw on fact to spin my fiction. But in the case of “Frog Music,” which is based on an 1876 ...

Growing up in Dublin, author Emma Donoghue sometimes fantasized about what she would wear to the awards ceremony if she ever won the Man Booker Prize. It wasn’t an outsize aspiration for the daughter ...

This real-life unsolved murder is the basis of Emma Donoghue’s new novel, “Frog Music.” (Little, Brown and Co.). The story is told through Blanche Beunon, a burlesque dancer who is in the same room ...

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Donoghue, the writer of both the novel and screenplay of Lenny Abrahamson’s Oscar-nominated Room, is teaming up with Alison Owen’s and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Pictures to make a ...

IT’S a brave author who starts a book by bumping off their best character. In Frog Music, Emma Donoghue has her killed by page six, the victim of an unidentified assassin. This ill-fated creature is ...