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- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
- Genre(s): Thriller, Graphic Novel
- 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,...
- Location(s): France, Italy, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Home-loving Laurie thinks she’s happy – she has a safe, reliable boyfriend and working in her local library is what she thought she always wanted. That is until she inherits a vintage Ferrari from her eccentric Uncle Miles and...
- Location(s): Zurich
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Video journalist Jonas Brand is on a rail journey from Zurich to Basel when stock trader Paolo Contini appears to throw himself from the train to his death. Brand sets his footage of the aftermath of the incident aside...
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