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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,...

Never Again

Never Again
  • Author(s): Nicky Clifford
  • Location(s): Wengen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(from Amazon.co.uk) Mountains, Mystery, Romance: Can you run from your past? Harriet Anderson’s life is spiralling out of control. Unused to such mayhem, she ditches her high-powered job to take refuge in the Swiss Alps where she meets Philippe...

The Gustav Sonata

The Gustav Sonata
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From late 1940s

What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in ‘neutral’ Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav’s father...

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Geneva, Germany, Greece, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s, Modern

Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she...

Maestra

Maestra
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game....

Alice-Miranda in the Alps

Alice-Miranda in the Alps
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Harvey
  • Location(s): Zermatt
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

The adventure continues with seven year old Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones in multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Harvey’s Alice-Miranda in the Alps. In the twelfth book in the series, Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to Switzerland for a ski break, but discover an evil plan to...

The Gilded Chalet

The Gilded Chalet
  • Author(s): Padraig Rooney
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Rainy summer of 1816. Paparazzi train their telescopes across Lake Geneva on the hanky-panky of Byron, Shelley and their womenfolk. Mary Shelley is inspired to write Frankenstein. Byron diets and dashes off The Prisoner of Chillon while his doctor, ‘Pollydolly’, gives birth...

From Italy with Love

From Italy with Love
  • 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...

Shame

Shame
  • Author(s): Melanie Flinn
  • Location(s): Africa, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Shortlisted for 2015 Not the Booker Prize REDEMPTION IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY – or so Pilgrim Jones hopes as she looks up at a departures board and takes the first flight.   She is running away; from her failed...

After the Crash

After the Crash
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi
  • Location(s): France, Jura Mountains (Switzerland), Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s/1990s

On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one...

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