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- Location(s): Africa, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Shortlisted for 2015 Not the Booker Prize REDEMPTION IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY – or so Pilgrim Jones hopes as she looks up at a departures board and takes the first flight. She is running away; from her failed...
- Location(s): Basel
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
A Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1850s and Modern
One tour, two trips, 150 years and a world of change apart In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook s first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and...
- Location(s): Swiss Alps
- Genre(s): Noir, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Alice Reed goes on her normal morning jog in the peaceful Swiss Alps, she never expected to save a man from suicide. But she does. And she shouldn’t have. Adamant they have an instant connection Manfred’s charming exterior...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Rainy summer of 1816. Paparazzi train their telescopes across Lake Geneva on the hanky-panky of Byron, Shelley and their womenfolk. Mary Shelley is inspired to write Frankenstein. Byron diets and dashes off The Prisoner of Chillon while his doctor, ‘Pollydolly’, gives birth...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): From late 1940s
What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in ‘neutral’ Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav’s father...
- Location(s): Goms, Reckingen
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s time to pack your bags and head to the breathtaking, snow-covered peaks of the Swiss Alps for velvety hot chocolates, delicious cheeses and a gorgeous love story… Food technician Mina has always believed that chocolate will solve everything...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Fourteenth century
A young nation in peril. A web of deception. A triangle of forbidden love. The year is 1315. The fledgling nation of Switzerland – the Confederation Helvetica – is under threat from the Habsburgs. In France, the Knights Templar...
- Location(s): Geneva, Paris, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
Their future is written in the stars . . . Maia D’Apliése and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ‘Atlantis’ – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told...
The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)
- Location(s): Geneva, Germany, Greece, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s, Modern
Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she...
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