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One by One
  • Author(s): Ruth Ware
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company....

The Chalet

The Chalet
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1998

‘Pure adrenaline’ ERIN KELLY ‘I was gripped from start to finish’ CASS GREEN French Alps, 1998 Two young men ski into a blizzard… but only one returns. 20 years later Four people connected to the missing man find themselves...

Another Long Day on the Piste

Another Long Day on the Piste
  • Author(s): Will Randall
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Bill Bryson on the slopes? Mont St Bernard, fictional, is the setting for this heady book on skis. Boozy nights, random Russians and skiing endeavours all contribute to an entertaining and delightful read of life on the slopes. Full...

Belle de Neige: Tales of Catastrophe, Sex and Squalor from the Alpine Underbelly

Belle de Neige: Tales of Catastrophe, Sex and Squalor from the Alpine Underbelly
  • Author(s): Belle de Neige
  • Location(s): Les Trois Vallées (The 3 Valleys)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“People pick the most inopportune times to die; when everything is going along swimmingly and you’re feeling that you really have landed with your arse in the butter recently and isn’t life peachy?” Grief, heartbreak, existential crisis. Life has...

Bright and Deadly Things

Bright and Deadly Things
  • Author(s): Lexie Elliott
  • Location(s): Saint Gervais
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A retreat doesn’t always mean safety… Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais in the French Alps. With no electricity, running...

Cham

Cham
  • Author(s): Jonathan Trigell
  • Location(s): Chamonix
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Long-dead Lord Byron started it. The rock star of his age. But a poet with about as much relevance to the blood grudge struggle that marks modern life for most of humanity, as he has to the practice of...

Making the Break

Making the Break
  • Author(s): Sarah Yuen
  • Location(s): Chamonix
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A life of skiing, snow and sunshine in the French Alps. That was what one British couple had in mind when they gave up the 9 – 5 grind to run a ski chalet in Chamonix. With their toddler...

Moscow Rules

Moscow Rules
  • Author(s): Daniel Silva
  • Location(s): Courchevel, Italy, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

The violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. But this is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and in thrall to a new generation of...

Shiver

Shiver
  • Author(s): Allie Reynolds
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

They don’t know what I did. And I intend to keep it that way. How far would you go to win? Hyper-competitive people, mind games and a dangerous natural environment combine to make the must-read thriller of the year....

Clamped

Clamped
  • Author(s): David Blackwell
  • Location(s): Courchevel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Ben moved to the mountains he did so in the hope that he would find his true self. But he found himself surrounded by people doing their best to hide theirs. Clamped, set in the alpine ski resort...

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