The Paris Express

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room and The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue takes readers on a thrilling ride through a simmering turn-of-the-century Paris on the edg e of a dazzling future. ‘Ratchets up the pace until it’s hurtling along as fast as the train itself’ – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam‘Riveting’ – The Washington Post‘All about speed . . . This novel is a masterclass’ – The IndependentA woman determined to make her mark. A journey that will change everything. Paris, 1895. Glamour hides a city on the brink. One morning, a young woman boards the Granville Express with a deadly plan. On the journey lives intertwine in explosive ways. There are the railway crew who have everything to lose, a little boy travelling alone for the first time, an elderly statesman with his fragile wife and a lonely artist far from home. The train speeds towards the City of Light and into a future that will change everything . . . Author: Donoghue, EmmaModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 26 February 2026 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.Paperback / softback | 288 pages197 x 130 x 20 | 200g Show more