• Adult,  Book Reviews

    A Russian Sister by Caroline Adderson

    When The Seagull premiered in St. Petersburg on October 17, 1896, it was received so poorly playwright Anton Chekhov is reported to have fled the theatre to escape the boos and hisses that greeted the ill-fated performance. For those not up on…

  • Adult,  Book Reviews

    Midnight Train to Prague by Carol Windley

    There is never a shortage of novels centred on the Second World War. Recent titles have tended to favour stories of brave women (real or imagined) taking to the skies as pilots or toiling as resistance fighters or spies. But…