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Heidi

Heidi
  • Author(s): Johanna Spyri
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1880s

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes to Frankfurt to work in a wealthy household, she dreams of...

In Matto’s Realm

In Matto’s Realm
  • Author(s): Friedrich Glauser
  • Location(s): Bern
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1920s

Studer investigates when the director vanishes and a child murderer escapes from an insane asylum in Bern, an environment Glauser knew all too well from personal experience. Set in the 1920s, the novel explores the no-man’s-land between reason and...

Incognito

Incognito
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): Geneva, Egypt, Rome, St Moritz, Turkey, Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Pope Gregoire XVII was last seen waving to the crowd at Saint Peter’s square from the famous Apostolic Palace window. Despite several layers of tight security, neither the Gendarmerie nor The Entity (the Vatican’s secret service) or the Swiss...

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...

La Bise: A Novel in Lucerne

La Bise: A Novel in Lucerne
  • Author(s): Lisa R Hurley
  • Location(s): Lucerne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Let It Snow

Let It Snow
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): England, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This Christmas, the villagers of Middledip are off on a very Swiss adventure… Family means everything to Lily Cortez and her sister Zinnia, and growing up in their non-conventional family unit, they and their two mums couldn’t have been...

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...

Monsters

Monsters
  • Author(s): Sharon Dogar
  • Location(s): London, France, Scotland, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1814: Two 16-year-old stepsisters run away with a married man. The results are devastating and the ripples will be felt for centuries. This is the incredible story of Mary Shelley – radical, rebellious and...

Objects in a Mirror are Closer than they Appear

Objects in a Mirror are Closer than they Appear
  • Author(s): Katherine Weber
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Origin

Origin
  • Author(s): J T Brannan
  • Location(s): Antarctica, Geneva
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

For millennia it has lain there undiscovered. Now the time has come… Research scientist Evelyn Edwards always knew the Antarctic held deep secrets but the discovery of a 40,000 year old body buried under the ice caps surpasses even...

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