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The Pieces from Berlin

The Pieces from Berlin
  • Author(s): Michael Pye
  • Location(s): Berlin, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

The Rescued Heart

The Rescued Heart
  • Author(s): Madeleine McDonald
  • Location(s): Basel
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A second-chance romance set against the background of Art Basel, one of the world’s top art fairs, held in the Swiss city of Basel. A family friend invites widow Ellen Ross to accompany him to the fair. A chance...

The Secret Keepers

The Secret Keepers
  • Author(s): Tilly Bagshawe
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Wengen
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s-Second World War

The beautiful bastide at Beaulieu-sur-Mer has always been an idyllic retreat for the Challant family, a place of glorious memories and sun-drenched summers. But the summer of 1928 changes everything. One humid, stormy night, a young local boy suffers...

The Spice Temple – The Journey Begins

The Spice Temple – The Journey Begins
  • Author(s): Cindia Luest
  • Location(s): India, Dubai, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“The Spice Temple – The Journey Begins” is a unique work of literary or culinary fiction that allows readers to travel to destinations like the Swiss Alps, India and Dubai. It offers social themes and gives foodies the taste...

The Summer of Princess Diana

The Summer of Princess Diana
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1981

Diana Driscoll has no problem manipulating her father into funding her whirlwind tour of London to attend the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in the summer of 1981. There’s no way she’d miss the wedding of the...

The Valentine House

The Valentine House
  • Author(s): Emma Henderson
  • Location(s): French Alps, Geneva
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914 - 1976

In 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine builds a chalet high up in the French Alps and every summer les rosbifs arrive, to the benefit of the curious locals who work for them. For Mathilde, one of the domestic ‘uglies’ chosen...

Time Shelter

Time Shelter
  • Author(s): Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (Translator)
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine’s assistant, the...

Villa del Sol

Villa del Sol
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Lugano, Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Jennifer Logan just buried her husband, the beloved senior senator from Rhode Island. To find solace and peace for her troubled soul, she rents a villa in a small town on the Swiss-Italian border. For the next six months,...

Waking the Dead (Book 2 of The Dead Series)

Waking the Dead (Book 2 of The Dead Series)
  • Author(s): Kerry Blaisdell
  • Location(s): Germany, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hyacinth always assumed dying would simplify her life. But when her new boss, Archangel Michael, sends her on her first official mission — to retrieve a powerful rock from a collector in Germany — things go downhill fast. For...

Wrapped in the Stars

Wrapped in the Stars
  • Author(s): Elena Mikalsen
  • Location(s): Bern
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Struggling with guilt over her sister’s death and the stress of her medical residency, Maya Radelis runs away to Scotland. A robin seems to lead her to an antique shop, where she finds a century-old engagement ring. But what...

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