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Daughters

Daughters
  • Author(s): Lucy Fricke, Sinéad 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...

Daughters of the Lake

Daughters of the Lake
  • Author(s): Jane Riddell
  • Location(s): Brunnen, Canton Schwyz
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daughters of the Lake is a contemporary tale of love, betrayal and regret, set amidst Swiss mountains and lakes. Madalena summons her family to celebrate her hotel’s fortieth anniversary, unaware that they are living with devastating secrets. As time...

Deep Dark Blue

Deep Dark Blue
  • Author(s): Seraina Kobler, Alexandra Roesch (Translator)
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first in a new series starring the intelligent and warm-hearted investigator Rosa Zambrano for fans of Ann Cleaves and Sarah Pearse. Lake Zurich is Rosa Zambrano’s beat. Once a detective with the CID, she’s traded in serious crimes...

Dr Fischer of Geneva, or the Bomb Party

Dr Fischer of Geneva, or the Bomb Party
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

Eleven Minutes

Eleven Minutes
  • Author(s): Paulo Coelho
  • Location(s): Brazil, Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Eurotrash

Eurotrash
  • Author(s): Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles (Translator)
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Autofiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Traversing the country in a hired cab,...

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
  • Author(s): Jules Larimore
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes), London, Rotterdam, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 17th century

Inspired by a true story, this refugee’s tale of sacrifice, separation, and abiding love unfolds in the rugged Cévennes Mountains of Languedoc, France, 1697 in a sweeping adventure during a time of religious divisiveness and Louis XIV’s oppressive rule....

Five Ladies Go Skiing

Five Ladies Go Skiing
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): La Tzoumaz
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Ginny Watts’ husband passes away, she is left grief-stricken, not only over her husband’s death but the secrets he has left behind… Luckily for Ginny, she has four wonderful friends – Lou, Cathy, Angie and Kim – poised...

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
  • Author(s): Mary Shelley
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 1810s

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...

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