Join The Cabin for an intimate evening with novelist and playwright Emma Donoghue in conversation with author Samantha Silva on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at 7:30 PM, at the Boise Contemporary Theater. The bestselling author of Room, Haven, and The Wonder will be speaking about her new book, The Paris Express, inspired by an 1895 French railway disaster. Each ticket also includes a hardcover copy of The Paris Express!
About Emma Donoghue
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is a writer of contemporary and historical fiction whose novels include the international bestseller Room (her screen adaptation was nominated for four Oscars), Haven, The Pull of the Stars, Frog Music, Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, and The Wonder, a finalist for Canada’s Giller Prize. Her story collections are Astray, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Kissing the Witch, and Touchy Subjects. She also writes literary history, as well as plays for stage and radio. She lives in London, Ontario, with her partner and their two children.
About Samantha Silva
Samantha Silva is an author and screenwriter based in Idaho. Over her career, she’s sold film projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema. Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft is her second novel. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in One Story and LitHub. A short film, The Big Burn, which she wrote and directed, premiered at the Sun Valley Film Festival in 2018. She was a 2020 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow and a 2022 Bread Loaf Fellow. Her adaptation of her debut novel, Mr. Dickens and His Carol, had its world premiere at Seattle Repertory Theater in 2022.
Tickets
General admission tickets are $45 and include a hardcover copy of Donoghue's new book, The Paris Express.