The Paris Express: a thrilling historical novel about a city on the brink and the people caught up in one woman’s dangerous game

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 edge 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
‘A zippy Agatha Christie-like thriller giving a taste of life in fin-de-siècle France’ – The Guardian

A woman determined to make her mark. A journey that will change everything.

Paris, 1895. 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 . . .

‘An edge-of-your-seat historical thriller that I couldn’t put down’ – Shelby Van Pelt, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures