Imagine living in an 11 x 11 foot room for seven years. The only connection to the outdoors is a skylight above your head, and the only connection to the world a small TV. There are no windows, and the only door is locked continually,...

Astray by Emma Donoghue, audio format “Astray” is an anthology of fourteen short stories that transport the reader to the past where they will meet historical characters who were once emigrants or the reader will experience an event from the past that deals with emigration. Many...

Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music is as raucous and ebullient as its title implies. The cast of characters is a hardscrabble, resilient and eccentric never-say-die cast including Blanche, a French dance hall girl not entirely above selling her favors, a cross-dressing frog catcher named Jenny (hence,...