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Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, is set to publish the new novel from Room author Emma Donoghue. UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) print, digital and audio rights to The Paris Express were acquired from Caroline Davidson at Caroline Davidson Literary Agency and the novel will be co-published by Judith Clain, publisher of Summit Books in the US and Iris Tupholme at HarperCollins in Canada.
The synopsis reads: "In 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."
Sophie Jonathan, publishing director at Picador, said: "It’s a pure pleasure to have a new novel from the incomparable Emma Donoghue. In The Paris Express she has conjured up France at a time of extraordinary progress and innovation and political upheaval, and into it she drops Mado, one of the most exciting characters I’ve ever met on the page. The Paris Express has all the thrill and pace of the speeding train at the story’s centre—utterly fascinating and impossible to put down, I can’t wait to get it into readers’ hands."
Donoghue said: "The Paris Express is the fruit of a recent year I spent living in Montparnasse, immersed in the speedy, anxious, international whirl that was Belle Epoque Paris. I couldn’t be happier to be publishing my 10th book with Picador, who bring such verve to every aspect of the process."
The Paris Express will publish on 20th March 2025.