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Passport to Happiness

Passport to Happiness
  • Author(s): Carrie Stone
  • Location(s): Bali, Bermuda, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern Day

An inspiring and escapist read – Eat, Pray, Love meets Bridget Jones! Will the trip of her dreams… Become the journey of her lifetime? Everly Carter is bored. With her job, with her single status and with the never...

Small g: A Summer Idyll

Small g: A Summer Idyll
  • Author(s): Patricia Highsmith
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

Strange Star

Strange Star
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th century

From the queen of historical fiction, a thrilling, deliciously creepy story that is sure to freeze your blood . . . They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. ‘A tale to freeze the blood,’ was the only rule....

Sweet Days of Discipline

Sweet Days of Discipline
  • Author(s): Fleur Jaeggy
  • Location(s): Appenzell
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Post WW2

Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell’. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a...

Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night
  • Author(s): F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Nice, Rome, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into...

The Basel Killings

The Basel Killings
  • Author(s): Hansjörg Schneider
  • Location(s): Basel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is the end of October, the northern Swiss city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man...

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

The Beckoning Silence

The Beckoning Silence
  • Author(s): Joe Simpson
  • Location(s): Bolivia, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Identity
  • Author(s): Robert Ludlum
  • Location(s): Paris, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The first in the Bourne trilogy. (From the back cover): He has no past. And he may not have a future. All he knows is that he was fished out of the Mediterranean, his body riddled with bullets. Evidence...

The Chateau

The Chateau
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): Lake Geneva, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary, going back

Can young hearts ease a restless spirit? On the shores of stunning Lake Geneva, Gina Remy is celebrating her brother’s wedding – when the figure of a woman appears hovering above the water, beckoning to her. Ghostly visitations do...

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