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Strange Star

Strange Star
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th century

From the queen of historical fiction, a thrilling, deliciously creepy story that is sure to freeze your blood . . . They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. ‘A tale to freeze the blood,’ was the only rule....

The Double

The Double
  • Author(s): Ann Gosslin
  • Location(s): Swiss Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A completely engrossing read! I found Ann’s writing compelling, elegant and convincing, and the story pulled me in and totally transported me.’ Katherine Webb, best-selling author of The Legacy and The Disappearance Following a violent outburst at an awards...

The Little Swiss Ski Chalet

The Little Swiss Ski Chalet
  • Author(s): Julie Caplin
  • 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...

Lost In Translation

Lost In Translation
  • Author(s): Audrey Davis
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Charlotte Egerton and family are off to Switzerland, after husband Dom bags a big-time job promotion. But Charlotte isn’t exactly yodelling with delight at the prospect. Not since a chance discovery cast a shadow over her ten-year marriage. And...

The Other Daughter

The Other Daughter
  • Author(s): Caroline Bishop
  • Location(s): London, Lausanne, Montreux
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976 - 2016

You only get one life – but what if it isn’t the one you were meant to live? When Jessica discovers a shocking secret about her birth, she leaves her London home and travels to Switzerland in search of...

Sweet Days of Discipline

Sweet Days of Discipline
  • Author(s): Fleur Jaeggy
  • Location(s): Appenzell
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Post WW2

Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell’. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a...

Katharine’s Wish

Katharine’s Wish
  • Author(s): Linda Lappin
  • Location(s): Fontainebleau, Italy, London, Switzerland, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

In her new novel, Linda Lappin (author of THE ETRUSCAN) explores the final years in the life of short story writer and literary figure, Katherine Mansfield, focusing on her relationships with Ida Baker and John Middleton Murry against the...

Daughters

Daughters
  • Author(s): Lucy Fricke, SinĂ©ad Crowe (translator)
  • Location(s): Amorgos, Germany, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Fricke‘s Daughters tells the story of two women either side of forty on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers favourite in Germany, Daughters evokes laughter...

A Problematic Love

A Problematic Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): Portofino, San Francisco, Seattle, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Eight years after her fiancĂ© was murdered, attorney Megan Kole has fully reconciled two areas of her life: her intelligent son, who never knew his father, and the thriving law practice that is her late father’s legacy. The remainder...

The Sanatorium

The Sanatorium
  • Author(s): Sarah Pearse
  • Location(s): Crans Montana
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

EVERYONE’S IN DANGER. ANYONE COULD BE NEXT. An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when...

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