All posts tagged Swiss books
Two years old today. This blog, that is, not me. And with perfect timing the first translation of the book has been finished
An inside look at life along Lac Léman
Nyon is one the many delightful towns that occupy the northern shore of Lake Geneva (or Lac Léman if you speak French).
Discovering Swiss cheese with Style
Swiss and cheese. Those two words together conjure up an instant image of giant slabs of rubbery stuff with holes in.
A Number 1 bestseller
How does it feel to have written a bestseller? A customer asked me that last week, but it’s a question I found quite hard to answer.
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Swiss Watching trivia, No 23: Swiss Family Robinson
August 23, 2010, 4 CommentsAlmost seven decades before Heidi was born, another favourite Swiss book was published in 1812: Der Schweizerische Robinson, or Swiss Family Robinson. It was written by Johann David Wyss, a ...
My Books
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Swiss election results: xenophobia 0 commonsense 1
October 24, 2011, 31 Comments -
Dead famous in Switzerland
September 15, 2010, 26 Comments -
Meet Homo helveticus
October 3, 2011, 25 Comments -
A beginner’s guide to Swissness
June 4, 2010, 25 Comments -
A writer’s dream: giving up the day job
May 13, 2011, 24 Comments
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Switzerland at Eurovision
May 26, 2012, 1 Comment -
When is a car not a car?
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A tale of two citizenships
May 9, 2012, 20 Comments -
It’s rubbish in Switzerland!
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Flying Doctors of Switzerland
April 27, 2012, 1 Comment
