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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 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 English Assassin

The English Assassin
  • Author(s): Gabriel Silva
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Pieces from Berlin

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

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...

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