Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides to send her away again to live in the town. Heidi cannot bear being away from the mountains and is determined to return to the happiness of life with her grandfather.

In Dinnie Doone's life, she moved home a dozen times. Then, without warning, she was snatched by total strangers and taken far away. Dinnie arrives in Switzerland and becomes a pupil at an international boarding school. Separated from her family, she starts a new life that's strange, frightening, beautiful and full of adventure.

Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from spinsterhood.

The new bestselling novel, now in paperback, from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.

From the bestselling author of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring', a reissue of her first novel, which was first published in 1996.

What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? This travel book evaluates each country's different sense of happiness. It shows how the author in his quest to find the world's happiest places, eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik.

This is an intellectual drama of the forces which play upon modern man. Its theatre is a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains - a community organized with exclusive reference to ill-health.

When a scientist is found brutally murdered, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is asked to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. Realising it must be the work of the Illuminati - an ancient secret brotherhood sworn against Catholicism - the race is on to prevent a tragedy.

Every night, for twenty nights, a man with an incurable disease writes letters to a friend which describe not only his journey from Switzerland to Venice, but also his journey of the imagination. From the author of A MOTHER'S DISGRACE and SECRETS.

Complete, practical country guide for independent travellers. Outdoor activities chapter, covering everthing from spa breaks, hiking, mountain-biking, skiing and showboarding. City information covering shopping, museums and galleries, varied nightlife from clubbing to opera, festivals and conferences.

Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then and there - shocking his students, and surprising even himself.

Showcases the very best of Switzerland, with its multinational culture and unique position at the heart of Europe. This guide covers places ranging from the magnificent mountain scenery, alpine villages, ski resorts and apres-ski, to emmental, chocolate and cuckoo clocks. It also includes 850 photographs.

A unique analysis of the structures that make Switzerland work in an extensively revised edition.

Looks at Switzerland's history, wildlife and culture, with maps and plans. The color section introduces the country's highlights, from snowboarding in the Alps and sampling swiss wine to the country's Gothic cathedrals and medieval castles. This guide includes listings of the places to eat, drink and stay, plus 'author picks' to present the best.

This novel takes the form of the journal of a young man attending a school for butlers, the Benjamenta Institute. First published as Jakob Von Gunten in 1909, the book is now the subject of a Channel 4 feature film.

Tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion.

Divers, Dick and Nicole hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together.