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Switzerland is a country which has always fascinated me, so I enjoyed reading this book about all the authors who have spent time there over the centuries, ranging from Byron and Percy and Mary Shelley to James Joyce, Nabokov, Patricia Highsmith and Swiss writers such as Dürrenmatt and Max Frisch. One of my favourite childhood writers, Elinor M Brent-Dyer of Chalet School fame, also got a mention.
Padraig Rooney is an entertaining writer, and the book also has a lot of interesting illustrations. ...more
Padraig Rooney is an entertaining writer, and the book also has a lot of interesting illustrations. ...more
