Author: Carrie Walker
Publisher: Aria
ISBN: 180454731X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When your life goes off-piste how do you climb back up the mountain? Holly Roberts is well-known among family and friends for despising the cold, so no one is more surprised than her when she agrees to pack her bags and move to the Swiss Alps. But after getting her heart broken, spending the winter season working as a sous-chef for wealthy twins Genevieve and gorgeous Luca, is exactly what the doctor ordered. Verbier is home to millionaires and Holly has never felt more out of place in the snow-capped wooden chalet. Thankfully new friends, chalet girl Liv and chef Xavier are there to be her guide in this new world of après-ski and fondue, and to teach her how to get off chair lifts! And then there is Luca... rich, handsome, kind but what is the catch? She just wanted to escape her problems but could she get her Happily Ever After? A SWEET and FUNNY romantic comedy for readers of Lindsey Kelk and Mandy Baggot.
Author: Julie Caplin
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008431221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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*Buy this heartwarming and feel good cosy novel for a slice of escapism at the turn of a page!*
Author: Mary Louisa Whately
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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![The prism: Unequally yoked, Life in a Swiss chalet, From darkness to light, by M.L. Whately and 2 members of her family [signing themselves H.W. and E.M.]. Ed., with a preface, by E.J. Whately PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/TA8CAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Mary Louisa Whately
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Author: Padraig Rooney
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
ISBN: 1473645026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Part detective work, part treasure chest, full of history and scandal, The Gilded Chalet takes you on a grand tour of two centuries of great writing by both Swiss and foreign authors and shows how Switzerland has always been at the center of literary Europe. Two centuries after the Romantics went there to invent Gothic horror, the lure of Switzerland hasn't left us. Writers from the Fitzgeralds to Fleming, Highsmith to Hemingway, Conan Doyle to le Carré, came to escape world wars, political persecution, tuberculosis. They came for sanctuary (from oppression or the tax man), for fresh air and nude sunbathing, for scenery resembling, as Rooney puts it, 'Mother Nature on steroids.' Patricia Highsmith spent her last years in a granite home in Ticino with a fridge containing little but peanut butter and vodka. Hermann Hesse had himself buried to the neck as a cure for alcoholism. Nabokov chased butterflies and played tennis on the hotel courts. When it comes to literature, it seems all roads lead to Switzerland. Padraig Rooney peers through the chalet windows and discovers how Switzerland has influenced some of the greatest authors and characters of literature.
Author: Barry Parker
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801882487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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James Bond would have died a thousand deaths if not for Q, the genius behind the pen grenades and weaponized sports cars. The author demonstrates how science and technology have been as important to 007 as good looks, shaken martinis, and beautiful women.
Author: Tony Judt
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101484012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year “[A] tremendously moving memorial to a first-class historian and essayist . . . humane, fearless, unsparingly honest.” —The Financial Times “[A] memorable collection from a memorable man.” —BookPage "It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head." —Tony Judt The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation "was a revolutionary generation, but missed the revolution." A series of road trips across America lead not just to an appreciation of American history, but to an eventual acquisition of citizenship. Foods and trains and long-lost smells all compete for Judt's attention; but for us, he has forged his reflections into an elegant arc of analysis. All as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet-a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory.
Author: Edwin Brock
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207232
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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With The River and the Train, Edwin Brock's sixth collection to be published by New Directions, this British author shifts his focus from the brutality and desperate compromise of urban existence to the more pastoral though no less complex irony of life in a converted East Anglian granary. The bitter anger of such earlier books as The Blocked Heart (1976) and the prose and verse "Fragments of a Childhood" Here. Now. Always. (1977) has not disappeared but has been dispersed and mellowed by the poet's life with his second wife, artist Elizabeth Brock, and their daughter "Fred." Wistful, sardonic, Brock now fantasizes "not reincarnation/so much as sometime-loop/which returns me to/where I started to go wrong."
Author: Lonely Planet
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1837586004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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While vacationing in Europe, the Dana sisters agree to help a former Austrian prince locate his family's long lost heirlooms, a search that takes them into the dangerous snow-covered Swiss Alps.
