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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Author(s): Milan Kundera
  • Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Thailand, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In this novel – a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities – Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ‘Being’ In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world...

Year of the Drought

Year of the Drought
  • Author(s): Roland Buti
  • Location(s): Canton Vaud
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976

WINNER SWISS LITERATURE PRIZE WINNER PRIX DU PUBLIC DE LA R.T.S. WINNER Prix des Lectrices Edelweiss SHORTLISTED PRIX MÉDICIS It was the month of June, in the year 1976. I was thirteen. It was the start of the summer...

A Heart Bent Out of Shape

A Heart Bent Out of Shape
  • Author(s): Emylia Hall
  • Location(s): Lausanne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

For Hadley Dunn, life so far has been uneventful – no great loves, no searing losses. But that’s before she decides to spend a year studying in the glittering Swiss city of Lausanne, a place that feels alive with...

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Milan, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): First World War

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the ‘war to end all wars’. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. In an unforgettable depiction...

A Visit from Voltaire

A Visit from Voltaire
  • Author(s): Dinah Lee Kueng
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 2000s

When an American mother-of-three finds herself overwhelmed in her new home in Switzerland, a visitor pops up offering to cure her son’s asthma, her husband’s growing indifference, and her own resentment of life. Is he the village nutter or...

Across Many Mountains: three Daughters of Tibet

Across Many Mountains: three Daughters of Tibet
  • Author(s): Yangzom Brauen
  • Location(s): India, Switzerland, Tibet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

In 1950 the Chinese invaded Tibet. This book describes the journey from Tibet to India describes the journey and the story of three generations of Tibetan women: Kunsang, Sonam and Yangzom, Sonam’s daughter. They flee to the refugee camps...

Alpine for You

Alpine for You
  • Author(s): Maddy Hunter
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Mystery

Emily Andrew, a young and pretty, but unemployed actress, travels with her spry grandmother to Switzerland, together with a group of senior citizens from Iowa. Unfortunate incidents happen to the group members and Emily has to investigate and teams...

American Assassin

American Assassin
  • Author(s): Vince Flynn
  • Location(s): Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Six months ago, Mitch Rapp was just an ordinary college student. Then the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack stole the lives of two...

Bamboo and Blood

Bamboo and Blood
  • Author(s): James Church
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), North Korea, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1997

It is 1997 and North Korea is in the grip of a terrible famine. When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious provison: Don’t look...

Domina

Domina
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she’s finally enjoying the life she killed for. But someone knows what Judith’s done. Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting – unfortunately,...

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