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The Chef

The Chef
  • Author(s): Martin Suter
  • Location(s): St Moritz, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich’s leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is...

The Post-Office Girl

The Post-Office Girl
  • Author(s): Stefan Zweig
  • Location(s): Austria, Swiss Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1926

The book is divided into two parts: It is 1926, and the main character, Christine Hoflehner, in her late 20s, works as a lowly postal clerk in a small Austrian village. She has lost her father and her brother...

When Nights were Cold

When Nights were Cold
  • Author(s): Susanna Jones
  • Location(s): London, Swiss Alps, Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 1900s onwards

The story of Grace Farringdon, who looks back on her life on the eve of the anniversary of the death of her friends. Growing up in early 1900’s Dulwich (South East London), Grace longs to escape her dreary life....

Belle du Seigneur

Belle du Seigneur
  • Author(s): Albert Cohen
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one...

News from Berlin

News from Berlin
  • Author(s): Otto de Kat
  • Location(s): Berlin, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1941

June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl,...

Swisscellany

Swisscellany
  • Author(s): Diccon Bewes
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Fact lovers will enjoy this treasure-trove of serious and not so serious facts and figures about Switzerland – a collection of lists that will amuse and enlighten you with things you never dreamed you’d enjoy. You can learn how...

And then there was no one (Evadne Mount 3)

And then there was no one (Evadne Mount 3)
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • Location(s): Meiringen
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart. With a price of ten million dollars on...

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man
  • Author(s): Georges Perec
  • Location(s): Paris, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

1960s. Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster’s blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the...

A Fractured Winter

A Fractured Winter
  • Author(s): Alison Baillie
  • Location(s): Canton Zug
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A missing girl. Threatening notes. Sinister strangers. Olivia’s idyllic family life in a Swiss mountain village is falling apart. She thought she’d managed to escape the past, but it’s coming back to haunt her. Has somebody discovered her secret...

A Lake in Switzerland

A Lake in Switzerland
  • Author(s): Melinda Huber
  • Location(s): Lake Constance
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

Stacy can’t believe her luck when her best friend Emily invites her on a holiday to Switzerland. She arrives at the Lakeside Hotel with high hopes, but the problems begin straightaway. Emily’s recent injury doesn’t let her do much,...

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