The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

Publishes 26 February 
 
In this riveting, heart-pounding historical thriller, a deadly plot unfolds aboard a train hurtling towards Paris...
 
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 . . .
 
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'Ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as fast as the train itself.' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam
 
'A zippy Agatha Christie-like thriller giving a taste of life in fin-de-siècle France.' - The Guardian
 
'A pacy read of secrets and lies.' - The i Paper
 
'The Paris Express is all about speed, and its heady corollary, escape. Good writing is also about momentum, and another corollary, the suspension of disbelief. This novel is a masterclass in both: an engrossing narrative, married to its intrinsic specificity, the joy of details.' - The Independent
 
A riveting mix of social commentary and mystery . . . has much in common with Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express . . . If the steam engine is an astonishing feat of engineering, so is Donoghue’s propulsive and thought-provoking 16th novel.' – The Washington Post
 
'All about speed . . . this novel is a masterclass.' – The Independent