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- Location(s): Verbier
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
A match made on the slopes… After a messy break up that’s left her homeless, jobless and single, temporary chalet girl Emily needs a fresh start! So when best friend Holly asks her to help out before the start...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Location(s): France, Italy, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Mont Blanc, or ‘Il Bianco’ as it is sometimes known as in Italy; The White One. It sits, regally, upon pleated glacial folds gathered together around a timeless, grey-rock body, high above the French town of Chamonix, lord of...
- 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): 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): 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...
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