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- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Fact lovers will enjoy this treasure-trove of serious and not so serious facts and figures about Switzerland – a collection of lists that will amuse and enlighten you with things you never dreamed you’d enjoy. You can learn how...
- 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...
- Location(s): Bolivia, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
- 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...
- Location(s): St Moritz, Zurich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 2000s
As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich’s leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is...
- Location(s): Zurich
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): Switzerland, Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1900s onwards
The novel embarks on a journey involving three generations of families shifting from various decades. Rob Dewar and his climbing partner, Jamie Matthewson, are clinging by their fingertips to the North Face of the Eiger, one of the most...
- Location(s): Geneva
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 6.5.2010 (British General Election day)
With his eighth novel, but only his second set in the present day (after “Ghost”), Robert Harris will surely notch up another international bestseller. Alex Hoffman, a Geneva-based scientist turned hedge-fund supremo, has the Midas touch. But when he...
- Location(s): Geneva, Munich, Zurich
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Pia Sabel plays to win. Until a few weeks ago, she was an international soccer star. But now she’s taken the helm of her billionaire father’s private security company, and she’s playing against a whole new set of opponents...
- Location(s): Davos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1910s
Hans Castorp is ‘a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man’ when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans...
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