Rosemary Ahern set out to write “something that would be short and fun, and could submerge the reader in the world of books without the 30 hours it would take to reread Middlemarch" This ...

There isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, No matter where it’s going.” That dandy epigraph, from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Travel,” begins Emma Donoghue’s entertaining new novel. “The Paris Express” ...