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<strong>Bookmark</strong><br />
No. 2/2<strong>02</strong>3<br />
The English Magazine<br />
by Orell Füssli Thalia AG<br />
Magazine<br />
R. F. Kuang<br />
enters new literary<br />
territory – p. 5<br />
p. 3 Cosy Crime<br />
p. 12 Urban Stories<br />
p. 18 What We Loved
Christine Roth<br />
Head of Marketing &<br />
Communication<br />
Orell Füssli Thalia AG<br />
The next issue of <strong>Bookmark</strong>,<br />
the English magazine by<br />
Orell Füssli Thalia AG, will be<br />
published in spring 2<strong>02</strong>4.<br />
Dear Reader<br />
One of the most rewarding moments during<br />
the colder season is curling up with a<br />
captivating book, accompanied by a strong<br />
cup of tea or coffee and a warm blanket. We<br />
hope that, equipped with this issue of <strong>Bookmark</strong>,<br />
you’ll find your next favourite read.<br />
To elevate the cosiness of your reading<br />
experience, we’ve shared here a fantastic<br />
compilation of cosy crime novels. Whether<br />
you are an experienced armchair detective<br />
seeking to solve a puzzle or are simply longing<br />
for an immersive tale to escape everyday<br />
life for a few hours – these mysteries<br />
will definitely do the trick.<br />
We are honoured to be featuring bestselling<br />
author R. F. Kuang in our interview.<br />
Kuang gives fascinating insights into her<br />
celebrated and timely novel Yellowface, in<br />
which she fearlessly explores questions of<br />
exploitation, friendship, and the irresistible<br />
power of storytelling.<br />
Showing that there are indeed entire cities<br />
to be discovered between only two covers<br />
of a book, we invite you to travel to our favourite<br />
literary interpretations of different<br />
cities – from New York’s skyscrapers all the<br />
way to the canals of Amsterdam.<br />
Last but certainly not least, <strong>Bookmark</strong> now<br />
includes a section with book recommendations<br />
for our youngest, helping to spark<br />
the love of books for a new generation of<br />
readers.<br />
Warmest regards<br />
Christine Roth<br />
As modern-day events unravel, books have never been a safer space<br />
to find solace and refuge from the struggles of everyday life. In<br />
cosies, amateur sleuths who are often overlooked by society get their<br />
chance to shine: the everyman solves crimes, puzzles and mysteries,<br />
possibly all while cuddling a pet, munching on biscuits and sipping<br />
tea. With autumn just around the corner and more chances to stay<br />
indoors and read, we’ve put together a list of the cosiest new releases,<br />
perfect for those first cold, crisp days after summer’s come and gone.<br />
From historical and paranormal fiction to senior citizens sleuths and<br />
closed-room mysteries, the books we’ve found are all so different<br />
while honouring traditional components of the cosy crime subgenre.<br />
1 The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman<br />
Starting strong with the maestro of cosy crime, Richard Osman’s<br />
million-copy bestselling series Thursday Murder Club hands the four<br />
eighty-year-old retired friends another juicy mystery to solve. This<br />
time, in the attempt to protect a package, an antique seller, who also<br />
happens to be a friend, has been murdered. As they solve yet another<br />
murder, the gang of crime retirees are met with the intricacies of<br />
the drug trade and the complicated business of antique fraud. And<br />
Osman has cleverly laced into this novel questions surrounding the<br />
care of the elderly. A simultaneously funny and heart-breaking read<br />
in the much-loved series.<br />
Imprint<br />
Editor: Orell Füssli Thalia AG,<br />
Dietzingerstrasse 3, Postfach, 8036 Zurich<br />
Authors: Christine Modafferi, Fanny Lewis,<br />
Catherine Sandwell-Meyer<br />
Editorial staff: Orell Füssli Thalia AG<br />
Design: design.isch. GmbH<br />
Cover photo: Jose Camacho<br />
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“When<br />
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Rip-Roaring<br />
all the dust has<br />
settled, does anything<br />
ever really change?”<br />
Interview with<br />
bestselling author<br />
R. F. Kuang<br />
Releases<br />
Discover the season’s<br />
best titles<br />
Urban Stories<br />
Some of our favourite literary interpretations<br />
of cities around the world<br />
Cosy Crime<br />
3There is no such thing as an unsolved mystery<br />
12<br />
18<br />
22<br />
39<br />
What We Loved<br />
Recommendations<br />
from our book experts<br />
Stories for Young and Old<br />
These books are bound to<br />
take you back to the stories<br />
that grew us into readers<br />
Our branches<br />
An overview of<br />
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Cosy<br />
Crime<br />
Is there anything cosier than curling<br />
up with a good book, a hot cup<br />
of tea or coffee, and the comforting<br />
knowledge that wherever you<br />
escape, there is no such thing as<br />
an unsolved mystery? Welcome<br />
to the world of cosy crime.<br />
Text by Christine Modafferi<br />
<strong>Bookmark</strong> Magazine<br />
2 The Murder Game by Tom Hindle<br />
Murder mystery parties are a much-loved trope in the world of cosy<br />
crime: multiple characters, all dressed-up in vintage outfits and a<br />
locked-room mystery are the ingredients to a killer recipe! As old<br />
friends meet at Hamlet Hall for a 1920s-themed New Year’s Eve<br />
murder mystery party, their roles are set. But their relationships<br />
are more complicated than they seem, and, as the fictional mystery<br />
begins to play out, one late-comer is found murdered. To solve the<br />
crime, the close-knit group members will inevitably begin to turn<br />
against each other, and the closed circle’s secrets will come undone.<br />
Told through multiple points of view with an unexpected plot twist<br />
at its end, this is the perfect nostalgic-feeling Sunday afternoon read.<br />
3 Grave Expectations by Alice Bell<br />
If you love some soft paranormal activity in your cosies and lots<br />
of humour, Grave Expectations by Alice Bell is the debut you won’t<br />
want to miss. This cosy brings together four very different characters:<br />
a medium called on to solve a murder that occurred in a very<br />
posh English family’s mansion, her ghost friend who has been by<br />
her side since she was seventeen, and the only two family members<br />
that definitely aren’t the murderer(s), a handsome ex-policeman and<br />
a non-binary teen. As they work together to solve the crime, Claire,<br />
the medium, walks on a fine line. She’s not a very skilled medium,<br />
and if her two new friends discover her best friend is a ghost who<br />
follows her everywhere, she might lose all her credibility … and her<br />
new friends.<br />
4 Three Card Murder by J. L. Blackhurst<br />
A closed-room mystery with not one but two female protagonists,<br />
two sisters leading opposite lives. Tess is a policewoman. Her<br />
half-sister, Sarah, a con artist. The two met late in life and never<br />
really got the chance to form a relationship. But that’s about to<br />
change, as Tess is assigned her first murder investigation, and the<br />
only person who can help her is Sarah. As the two sisters get to the<br />
bottom of the mystery murder, and their potential connection with<br />
the killer, prepare to be misdirected, illuded and surprised by a<br />
thrilling reveal at the end.<br />
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1 The Last Devil to Die<br />
Four senior citizen friends<br />
team up to solve yet another crime.<br />
Part of the much-loved Thursday<br />
Murder Club series!<br />
Richard Osman, Viking, CHF 29.90<br />
2 The Murder Game<br />
A New Year’s Eve murder<br />
mystery party, only an actual murder<br />
takes place! The perfect read for<br />
the Christmas holidays.<br />
Tom Hindle, Penguin, CHF 18.90<br />
“When all the dust has<br />
settled, does anything<br />
ever really change?”<br />
Rebecca F. Kuang © Jose Camacho<br />
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4<br />
3 Grave Expectations<br />
A mansion, ghosts and a<br />
crime from years and years ago to<br />
solve … This is perfect for readers<br />
who love to see friendships blossom.<br />
Alice Bell, Atlantic, CHF 18.90<br />
R. F. Kuang enters new literary territory with Yellowface, a spellbinding<br />
tale that fearlessly wrestles with questions of cultural appropriation,<br />
exploitation, friendship, and the irresistible power of storytelling.<br />
Acknowledgements: William Morrow and Company<br />
5<br />
4 Three Card Murder<br />
Sisterhood portrayed in a<br />
way you've never seen before. And<br />
a plot twist you just could never<br />
predict!<br />
J. L. Blackhurst , HarperCollins<br />
Publishers UK, CHF 18.90<br />
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5 Shot With Crimson<br />
Hollywood glamour with a<br />
murderous twist! Inspired by Rebecca,<br />
this one’s for all cinephiles.<br />
Nicola Upson, Faber & Faber, CHF 25.90<br />
Release Date: 2 November 2<strong>02</strong>3<br />
6 The Cat Who Solved<br />
Three Murders<br />
For an extra layer of cosiness, how<br />
about a fluffy cat? Lulu and her furry<br />
friend solve all crimes – including a<br />
terrible fire – once again!<br />
L T Shearer, Macmillan, CHF 28.90<br />
5 Shot With Crimson by Nicola Upson<br />
Josephine Tey fans, unite! An eleventh book is on its way this<br />
November after over a year’s wait. Join Josephine as she sails to<br />
Hollywood. It’s September 1939, Josephine is reunited with her<br />
partner Marta, and Hitchcock is directing Rebecca. But while Josephine<br />
basks in fictional drama, Hollywood glamour and exciting<br />
meetings with the likes of Laurence Olivier, Daphne du Maurier<br />
and Joan Fontaine, a murder needs solving in England, at the very<br />
premises that inspired the fictional story of Rebecca. Luckily, detective<br />
Archie Penrose is already on the scene. This book, full of real<br />
historical figures and with a hint of romance, is perfect for all lovers<br />
of historical cosies.<br />
6 The Cat Who Solved Three Murders by L T Shearer<br />
Ending our list strong with a cosy murder mystery featuring one<br />
of the genre’s staples: a cuddly pet. With this second book in the<br />
series by L T Shearer, Conrad the talking cat will have solved not<br />
one, not two, but three murders since joining widow and retired<br />
police detective Lulu Lewis for a quiet life on a canal boat. Together<br />
with Conrad, Lulu is on her way to Oxford for a friend’s birthday.<br />
Everything goes to plan, until a murder, fire and art heist force<br />
Lulu – and her trusty pet – to solve the mystery. If you’re not a cat<br />
person, we promise this book will turn you into one!<br />
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You’ve waded into some of the most<br />
explosive cultural and artistic questions<br />
of our time with this novel, particularly<br />
about cultural appropriation and exploitation,<br />
racism, diversity, tokenism,<br />
and who has the right to write about a<br />
particular subject or from a particular<br />
point of view. What inspired you to write<br />
it? And what gave you the courage to<br />
tackle issues that many writers and publishers<br />
are frankly terrified to address?<br />
Yellowface was one of those stories that<br />
dropped into my head fully formed, like<br />
Athena springs from Zeus’s skull. I like to<br />
joke with my friends that when God starts<br />
ringing, you pick up the phone. This has<br />
only happened to me twice in my life – the<br />
second time was when I got the idea for my<br />
next fantasy novel, Katabasis – and what<br />
happens next is I start writing like mad before<br />
the fire dies out. Of course there must<br />
have been a lot going on in my unconscious<br />
for that particular story to ferment like<br />
cyclical cynicism and the remarkable ability of the system to absorb<br />
the shockwaves of critique. If anything, the system only turns<br />
critique into another way to profit. Yellowface is a fundamentally<br />
pessimistic story, because it lays out this horrific scandal and then<br />
displays how that scandal in itself becomes another easily packaged<br />
consumer product. Who controls the narrative, really? When all<br />
the dust has settled, does anything ever really change? What would<br />
it take – how bad would things have to get – to really break down<br />
the system? In that sense Yellowface is not so thematically different<br />
from Babel, although their style and tone are worlds apart.<br />
Three years ago, there was an uproar about the book American<br />
Dirt, a bestselling novel about a Mexican immigrant mother<br />
and child, by a white American woman, a well-respected author,<br />
who claimed a minor amount of Latino heritage. Did that<br />
incident inform your book at all?<br />
Of course. I don’t think you could be a BIPOC author in publishing<br />
and not hear about it. It had a lot of us thinking about how diversity<br />
in publishing is often not a good-faith effort to engage with difference<br />
but to profit off of perceived distance.<br />
«Junie just witnessed her friend’s<br />
death, stole her manuscript and is heading<br />
towards fame and fun. Was it all<br />
worth it? Big gasps and tears running<br />
down my face from laughter.»<br />
Discover more on<br />
bookcircle.ch<br />
@FLAKIM<br />
RECOMMENDS:<br />
Yellowface<br />
R. F. Kuang, HarperCollins<br />
Publishers US,<br />
CHF 26.90<br />
Authors June Hayward and<br />
Athena Liu were supposed<br />
to be twin rising stars. But<br />
Athena is a literary darling.<br />
June Hayward is literally<br />
nobody. When June witnesses<br />
Athena’s death in a<br />
freak accident, she acts on<br />
impulse: she steals Athena’s<br />
just-finished masterpiece.<br />
“I wanted to write<br />
something that spoke<br />
to that cyclical<br />
cynicism and the<br />
remarkable ability of<br />
the system to absorb<br />
the shockwaves<br />
of critique.”<br />
it did. I recall it was in early 2<strong>02</strong>1, while<br />
publishing was still being rocked by the<br />
movements of late 2<strong>02</strong>0. The Publishing<br />
Paid Me social media campaign had taken<br />
off, folks were sharing and comparing<br />
advances, and there was a lot of chatter<br />
across the board about how publishers had<br />
let down their BIPOC writers and readers.<br />
There was a lot of promise of change from<br />
the top. But by the time I started drafting in<br />
2<strong>02</strong>1, you could tell – there was something<br />
in the air – that this change was never going<br />
to materialize in any meaningful way.<br />
What we saw instead were some shallow,<br />
cosmetic changes; ornamental nods towards<br />
diversity. A few token opportunities;<br />
a few big “BIPOC books of the year.” I wanted<br />
to write something that spoke to that<br />
Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New-<br />
York-Times-bestselling, Astounding-Award-winning,<br />
and Hugo-,<br />
Nebula-, Locus- and World-Fantasy-Award-nominated<br />
author of the<br />
Poppy War trilogy and Babel. Her<br />
work has won the Crawford Award<br />
and the Compton Crook Award for<br />
Best First Novel. A Marshall Scholar<br />
and Chinese-English translator with<br />
an MPhil in Chinese Studies from<br />
Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary<br />
Chinese Studies from<br />
Oxford, she is now pursuing a PhD<br />
in East Asian Languages and<br />
Literatures at Yale.<br />
In response to charges of cultural appropriation and exploitation,<br />
publishers have started taking preemptive measures like<br />
using “sensitivity readers.” What are they? When and how are<br />
they used?<br />
I had a very good experience with authenticity readers while Babel<br />
was in production. I approached it not so much as a way to avoid<br />
trouble but as a way to deepen and enrich the text. I treated my readers<br />
as collaborators who helped make Babel a truly representational<br />
community effort. And they made the novel much better – I learned<br />
cultural and linguistic details that the novel would have suffered<br />
without. I think sensitivity reads go wrong more often when<br />
“I treated my readers as<br />
collaborators who helped make<br />
Babel a truly representational<br />
community effort.”<br />
authors and publishers are just trying to find someone to function<br />
as a scapegoat. “This book can’t be racist because we had a BIPOC<br />
sensitivity reader!” I think that the way June describes sensitivity<br />
reads in the novel is precisely the wrong way to go about things.<br />
There are some great contemporary debates about standpoint<br />
epistemology that get to the heart of why sensitivity reads aren’t a<br />
catch-all solution.<br />
Oxford, 1836. The city of<br />
dreaming spires. It is the<br />
centre of all knowledge<br />
and progress in the world.<br />
And at its centre is Babel,<br />
the Royal Institute of<br />
Translation. To Robin<br />
Swift, orphaned in Canton<br />
and brought to England<br />
by a mysterious guardian,<br />
Babel seemed like paradise.<br />
Until it became a prison ...<br />
But can a student stand<br />
against an empire?<br />
The Poppy War<br />
R. F. Kuang,<br />
HarperCollins Publishers US,<br />
CHF 16.90<br />
Babel<br />
R. F. Kuang,<br />
HarperCollins<br />
Publishers US,<br />
CHF 25.90<br />
Epic historical military<br />
fantasy, inspired by the<br />
bloody history of China’s<br />
twentieth century and<br />
filled with treachery and<br />
magic.<br />
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Discover the best new reads<br />
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Text by Christine Modafferi<br />
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Also by the author<br />
Toshikazu Kawaguchi<br />
“Before the Coffee Gets Cold”<br />
“Four short stories about people<br />
visiting a cafe that allows them to<br />
travel through time to meet loved<br />
ones from the past or future –<br />
very intriguing! This book is for<br />
everyone who enjoys open endings<br />
and cozy, bittersweet storytelling.”<br />
Discover more on<br />
bookcircle.ch<br />
@STEPHIESHEENA<br />
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Critically acclaimed White Teeth<br />
1<br />
bestselling author Zadie Smith is<br />
back with her very first historical fiction<br />
novel. Get ready to be thrown into 1873<br />
Victorian England, at a time when a<br />
sensational trial regarding a man<br />
performing identity fraud divided the<br />
country: the Tichborne trial. Surrounding<br />
this trial are our two main characters:<br />
Andrew Bogle, an enslaved Jamaican man<br />
brought to England to provide his<br />
invaluable trial testimony, and 70-year-old<br />
Mrs Eliza Touchet, a Scottish housekeeper<br />
who has lived a privileged life with a<br />
once-famous novelist for 30 years. While<br />
Mrs Touchet believes in the power of<br />
justice and abolitionism, Andrew Bogle<br />
knows that to preserve his future, he will<br />
have to tell the story his British<br />
counterparts hope to hear having brought<br />
him to England. In this ambitious historical<br />
novel, the characters’ lives are intertwined<br />
with major historical events, literary<br />
figures and colonialism.<br />
The Fraud<br />
Zadie Smith, Hamish Hamilton, CHF 29.90<br />
Three-time National Book Award<br />
2<br />
finalist and New York Times<br />
bestselling author Lauren Groff’s The<br />
Vaster Wilds follows the breath-taking<br />
survival story of Bess. Bess is a servant girl<br />
living in 17th century Jamestown who<br />
suddenly escapes her home in a colonial<br />
settlement and the only family she’s ever<br />
known. But the land beyond the settlement<br />
is unexplored territory, and she will have to<br />
overcome extreme weather, illness,<br />
hallucinations, starvation and the dangers<br />
of the wilderness, including bears and other<br />
wild animals, to survive. As Bess endures<br />
her journey through the physical world,<br />
she also is on a spiritual journey and will<br />
have to come to the realisation that her own<br />
religion has been used as a weapon against<br />
her since she was a little girl and has<br />
removed her from any form of communion<br />
with nature. This incredibly paced “if I stop<br />
I die” survival story is one that you will<br />
keep thinking about after you’ve finished it,<br />
as Groff describes loneliness in its most raw<br />
and brutal state.<br />
The Vaster Wilds<br />
Lauren Groff, Hutchinson Heinemann, CHF 29.90<br />
This beautiful yet short collection<br />
3<br />
crafts eight micro-biographies of<br />
eight Korean women of all ages up to 80.<br />
Through these individual biographies,<br />
bestselling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982<br />
Cho Nam-joo explores the female<br />
experience in Korea, which unsurprisingly<br />
doesn’t differ much to that of Western<br />
women. From childbirth and caregiving to<br />
growing old, to being hated, loved and<br />
hated again, to being sexually harassed and<br />
discriminated at work, this author<br />
scrutinised the collective experience of<br />
existing in the world as a woman. Her voice<br />
is raw yet funny, succinct yet so thoroughly<br />
descriptive and attentive to detail. And<br />
speaking of detail, we love that each story<br />
features a different version of “Miss Kim”,<br />
which is the Korean equivalent of a Jane<br />
Doe, hence the title Miss Kim Knows,<br />
suggesting any woman can relate to these<br />
stories. A brilliant and unphased take on<br />
womanhood.<br />
Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories<br />
Cho Nam-Joo, Scribner UK, CHF 24.90<br />
Award-winning comedian, writer<br />
4<br />
and actor Sara Pascoe has written an<br />
over-the-top tragicomic novel about an<br />
Essex-bound young contemporary woman<br />
elbowing her way through life, and it is<br />
funny. Sophie’s life is far from perfect:<br />
drowning in debt, coming to terms with the<br />
fact that her sister is engaged to her ex, a<br />
boyfriend who barely wants to be with her,<br />
and to top it all off, Chris, the man she<br />
secretly followed to Australia in the hope to<br />
stage a meet-cute, is ordering two gin and<br />
tonics at the very pub she’s working at.<br />
Sophie takes this as her sign to get her life<br />
together, bin her sexless relationship and<br />
start living the life she believes she’s made<br />
for. If you're on the hunt for a unique read,<br />
welcome to Sophie's incredibly messy life.<br />
Weirdo<br />
Sara Pascoe, Faber & Faber, CHF 26.90<br />
It’s not every day that authors get the<br />
5<br />
chance to revisit characters from<br />
books they’ve already published and whose<br />
stories have seemingly ended, so the return<br />
of Freddie Montgomery from The Book of<br />
Evidence feels extra special. The<br />
Singularities begins with Freddie’s release<br />
from prison and his return to the estate he<br />
grew up in. But during his time away from<br />
home things have changed. A new family<br />
lives on the estate, his housekeeper has<br />
become his landlady, and a rich woman<br />
from what feels like a faraway life has come<br />
out of the woodworks. It’s all very<br />
unsettling, but that’s not all: a new<br />
scientific theory has thrown the universe<br />
into chaos, and the strange family living in<br />
his home are descendants of its theorist. If<br />
you love unlikeable characters and relish in<br />
the beauty of prose, this book by critically<br />
acclaimed Booker Prize winner John<br />
Banville will not disappoint.<br />
The Singularities<br />
John Banville, Swift, CHF 19.90<br />
Greek mythology lovers and fans of<br />
6<br />
Madeline Miller and Joanne M.<br />
Harris’ writing will fall head over heels for<br />
this queer, funny and feminist retelling of<br />
the myth we’ve always only seen one side<br />
of. You may be familiar with the story of<br />
Hercules and his twelve labours, but this<br />
book is about the struggles and lives of<br />
those who surrounded him, suffered the<br />
consequences of his actions and so often<br />
saw him less as a hero and more as a villain.<br />
Told in an absolutely hilarious way (most of<br />
the time), we’re served multiple brutally<br />
honest point of views from his mother and<br />
sister to his lovers and wife. This book is<br />
such a hilarious take on the chaotic, messy<br />
and adventurous half mortal, half god hero<br />
that was both loved and loathed.<br />
Herc<br />
Phoenicia Rogerson, HarperCollins Publishers UK,<br />
CHF 26.90<br />
The third book in Kate Mosse’s New<br />
7<br />
York Times bestselling Burning<br />
Chambers series is another brilliantly<br />
crafted historical novel set on the Barbary<br />
Coast in 1621. All main character Louise<br />
wants is to become a captain and have a ship<br />
of her own. And while this is unthinkable<br />
for a woman of her time, her wish is<br />
granted thanks to a hefty inheritance. As<br />
she prepares to sail off, she meets Gilles, an<br />
apprentice in need of a safe space, and<br />
decides to help him. Together, they set sail,<br />
and soon fall in love, but during their<br />
journey they must dodge pirates, slavers<br />
and men representing the Inquisition. This<br />
novel has high stakes, crime, revenge,<br />
secrets and a refreshing love story.<br />
The Ghost Ship<br />
Kate Mosse, Macmillan, CHF 29.90<br />
Who would you want to meet if you<br />
8<br />
could travel back in time? This fourth<br />
book in the million-copy bestselling series<br />
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi explores just this<br />
very question, drawing on the same format<br />
of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Enter<br />
Funiculi Funicula, a café hidden in Tokyo’s<br />
back alleys where customers get to travel<br />
back in time for just an hour but can’t<br />
change history. In this book, a husband has<br />
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one last important thing to say, a woman<br />
grieves the pet she didn’t get the chance to<br />
say goodbye to, and another finally answers<br />
an important question, ending with a<br />
complicated father-daughter relationship.<br />
Each page in this book dissects human<br />
emotion, and beautiful raw feelings are<br />
explored and on display.<br />
Before We Say Goodbye<br />
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Picador, CHF 19.90<br />
With The Wonder releasing just this<br />
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year as a hit Netflix film, so many of<br />
us have been waiting with bated breath<br />
what comes next from Emma Donoghue in<br />
her 16th novel. Inspired by the true love<br />
story between Eliza Raine and Anne Lister,<br />
Learned by Heart is about the first love<br />
between two very different 14-year-old<br />
girls attending the same boarding school in<br />
19th century York – one an orphan heiress<br />
exiled from India and her British peers, the<br />
other a troublemaker and unconventional<br />
young woman. Thoroughly researched and<br />
leaving no detail to the imagination,<br />
Donoghue includes snippets of what awaits<br />
for them in the future, with Anne Lister<br />
becoming the well-known “Gentleman<br />
Jack”, and tells this story through the eyes<br />
of Eliza. A historical sapphic romance that<br />
also looks at racism, society and social<br />
hierarchy.<br />
Learned By Heart<br />
Emma Donoghue, Picador, CHF 29.90<br />
If George R. R. Martin says<br />
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Cassandra Clare’s Sword Catcher gave<br />
him everything he looks for in medieval<br />
fantasy, do you really need any other form<br />
of endorsement? Adventure, magic,<br />
mystery and betrayal are the building<br />
blocks of master fantasy writer Cassandra<br />
Clare’s first adult fantasy. Set in an<br />
imagined world called Castellane, two<br />
outcasts strike an unlikely romance, and<br />
together they will uncover a conspiracy<br />
that could set the wheels of war in motion<br />
for their city-state. Kel is an orphan whose<br />
sole purpose in life is to protect the Prince,<br />
while Lin is an Ashkar physician and part<br />
of a community shunned by society. What<br />
brings them together is Castellane’s<br />
underworld, where the rules of society<br />
don’t apply and a strange king has<br />
established power. Following the success of<br />
the epic Shadowhunter Chronicles, this first<br />
book in a brand new series makes an<br />
excellent impression.<br />
Sword Catcher<br />
Cassandra Clare, Tor, CHF 29.90<br />
Following the prize-winning success<br />
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of The Beekeper of Aleppo, Christy<br />
Lefteri’s The Book of Fire is the dual<br />
timeline narration of what happens when<br />
people are stripped of what makes them<br />
who they are: their home, their talents,<br />
their looks. Jumping between before and<br />
after a terrible tragedy, a wildfire that<br />
destroys main character Irini’s Greek home,<br />
the devastation and loss of a family is<br />
explored. Each member reacts differently to<br />
the harrowing event: some despair, others<br />
seek revenge and later wallow in guilt,<br />
while others search for hope in order to<br />
move forward. At a time where wildfires<br />
are a hot topic, this book also honours those<br />
who have been expressing the urgency of<br />
climate change and shows the greed of<br />
those who won’t listen. A haunting yet<br />
beautiful unmissable read.<br />
The Book of Fire<br />
Christy Lefteri, Bonnier Books UK, CHF 29.90<br />
Vogue and The Guardian journalist<br />
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and Slay in Your Lane author Yomi<br />
Adegoke’s debut fiction novel, The List, was<br />
acquired through an aggressive eleven-way<br />
auction between publishers. Since its<br />
publication, it’s sparked so many<br />
conversations, rehashing thoughts on the<br />
#Metoo movement, cancel culture and the<br />
weaponisation of the internet. Michael and<br />
Ola have the perfect jobs, perfect<br />
relationship, perfect life. But just when<br />
things are about to get even more perfect<br />
with a shiny engagement ring and their<br />
wedding a month away, the rug is pulled<br />
from under their feet. A list is circulated<br />
online anonymously, and it pins Michael<br />
down as a female predator. As Michael does<br />
everything to clear his name, Ola has one<br />
month to figure out whether he’s innocent<br />
or guilty, and throughout the book an<br />
important reflection is made on the<br />
complex time of digitalisation we live in.<br />
The List<br />
Yomi Adegoke, HarperCollins Publishers UK, CHF 24.90<br />
YA author and poet Lang Leav<br />
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explores the small town trope<br />
through the lens of Ai, a young daughter of<br />
Cambodian refugees who has come back to<br />
her Australian hometown following a<br />
mental health crisis, despite her vow to<br />
never come back. Upon her return, the<br />
cause of her crisis is unveiled: unresolved<br />
trauma comes up to the surface, as she<br />
reconnects with friends from school who<br />
have shared a tragic experience with her.<br />
And as she comes to term with her grief,<br />
through masterful and lyrical prose, Ai<br />
reflects on heavy topics, from racial<br />
injustice and the difficult journeys of<br />
refugees in search for safety to domestic<br />
violence, romantic relationships, and<br />
friendship. This beautiful coming-of-age<br />
novel from the bestselling author of Sad<br />
Girls is poetic, moving and full of nineties<br />
nostalgia.<br />
Others Were Emeralds<br />
Lang Leav, HarperCollins Publishers US, CHF 24.90<br />
In a world where instant gratification<br />
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and picking the low-hanging fruit<br />
seem to reign, an Oxford philosopher<br />
develops a theory that could preserve, or<br />
even save, humanity in the long run. Such<br />
theory is “longtermism”, the idea of putting<br />
the happiness of those who will follow us<br />
first. An ambitious call to action to protect<br />
future generations, What We Owe the<br />
Future by charity founder and professor of<br />
philosophy William MacAskill addresses<br />
how important it is that, as we develop as a<br />
society and technology reaches incredible<br />
heights of capability, we also ensure we’re<br />
providing our children, grandchildren and<br />
great-grandchildren with the tools to<br />
maintain justice and values in the<br />
ever-changing world we live in.<br />
What We Owe the Future<br />
William MacAskill, Oneworld Publications, CHF 19.90<br />
Deep in the heart of Paris, along the<br />
15<br />
banks of the Seine River and just by<br />
Notre-Dame, you will find one of the most<br />
famous and historic bookshops in the<br />
world. Shakespeare and Company, the<br />
French/English-language bookshop,<br />
opened in 1951 and to this day is an<br />
important meeting space for writers and<br />
readers, and it has seen literary icons walk<br />
through its doors, from Joyce and<br />
Hemingway to Fitzgerald and Pound. To<br />
celebrate the shop’s history, owner Sylvia<br />
Whitman and novelist and Shakespeare<br />
and Company’s literary director Adam Biles<br />
have joined forces to pen a collection of<br />
interviews with prize-winning authors that<br />
have changed the publishing industry in<br />
the last ten years, from Reni Eddo-Lodge<br />
and Annie Ernaux to George Saunders and<br />
Jesmyn Ward. The book takes us into the<br />
writing process of these authors and the<br />
thoughts that sparked the books that have<br />
shaped our age.<br />
The Shakespeare and Company<br />
Book of Interviews<br />
Adam Biles, Canongate, CHF 38.90<br />
Mirror, mirror on the wall, what’s the<br />
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creepiest fairy tale of them all? This<br />
goth-horror Snow White retelling has<br />
elements of Eyes Wide Shut and unveils the<br />
chilling reality behind the beauty industry,<br />
viewing it as a real-life cult. Belle is a dress<br />
shop clerk who also loves all things<br />
skincare. Her life is relatively ordinary,<br />
until her estranged mother suddenly dies.<br />
After a series of strange events following<br />
the mysterious death, including a pair of<br />
red shoes – echoing Snow White’s red apple<br />
– Belle is lured into a beauty cult where a<br />
handsome man in a mirror possesses great<br />
power, and, over time, its members seem to<br />
slowly become brainwashed. As Belle<br />
works through her complicated grief, she<br />
comes into a world where appearance is<br />
what matters most and will have to claw her<br />
way out to avoid her mother’s fate.<br />
Rouge<br />
Mona Awad, Scribner UK, CHF 24.90<br />
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Urban Stories<br />
Cities are complicated, often made up of winding<br />
roads, messy and full of contradictions, but they’re an<br />
endless source of inspiration for authors.<br />
Text by Christine Modafferi<br />
Whether you love the city or loathe it, it’s bound to sweep you off your feet and welcome you.<br />
In the city, there are opportunities galore, and you can become whoever you wish to be. You<br />
can meet like-minded people. You’re surrounded by novelty, from new technology to new ideas<br />
being formed. You can struggle immensely and feel terribly lonely, but you’re never alone. And<br />
you can be different by being yourself, while always fitting in. Here are just some of our favourite<br />
literary interpretations of the cities around the world, from classics to new releases.<br />
1 Happy City by Charles Montgomery<br />
Before we jump into fictional stories about the big city life, let’s take a look at some of the<br />
non-fiction literature that has shaped our thinking around cities and that maps how they’ve<br />
impacted our individual lives as well as civilisation as a whole.<br />
In Happy City, published over ten years ago, the award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery<br />
challenges the way we view cities by mixing urban design analysis with scientific studies on<br />
happiness. What emerges is an inspiring study of architecture that debunks the belief that<br />
cities are the epicentre of the proverbial rat race and rather views them as a project towards<br />
happiness, referring back to the ancient Athenians, who brought democracy to life through the<br />
city. Montgomery studies many man-made creations in cities, from Copenhagen to Bogotá to<br />
Vancouver, suggesting that experiencing them is a form of mindfulness, self-care and living life<br />
more fully – a complete shift from the sadness of the suburbs, where we must rely heavily on<br />
our cars to get anywhere, from work to meetings with friends.<br />
2 Imagine a City by Mark Vanhoenacker<br />
Continuing in the vein of Montgomery’s celebration of the city, airline pilot and author of Skyfaring<br />
Mark Vanhoenacker writes about the places he’s travelled to and loved. Coming from the<br />
small New England town of Pittsfield, Vanhoenacker grew up dreaming of big cities. Today, as a<br />
pilot, he stops somewhere new each day, and Imagine a City is his love letter to the metropolises<br />
of the world he’s visited over the course of twenty years. Partly working as a travelogue and<br />
partly as a personal memoir, Vanhoenacker reflects on the great cities of our planet, from LA<br />
and Kuwait City to Jeddah and Sapporo. But if there’s one thing travel inspires, it’s the anticipation<br />
to get back to your hometown with a renewed appreciation for the familiar, and this book<br />
also includes nostalgic passages about home that will tug at your heartstrings.<br />
3 Ten Cities that Led the World by Paul Strathern<br />
Similarly to Imagine a City, Ten Cities that Led the World walks readers through metropolises of<br />
our globe from a historical viewpoint. Yes, this is the book you’ll want to read if you’re a history<br />
nerd! Journeying through ten cities from ancient history through to modern day, Paul Strathern<br />
offers a complex analysis of how cities have defined eras, formed new ideas, brought revolution,<br />
and made history. Learn how the human mind discovered mathematics in Babylonia, enjoy<br />
the first theatrical spectacles in ancient Athens, and marvel at the ancient Roman construction<br />
work that lasts to this day. Form new and enlightened ideas in Paris, build the first skyscrapers<br />
in New York, and discover how economy is progressing in Beijing. Each city that’s shaped our<br />
world is distinct, but they are also all interconnected, creating world history, together.<br />
4 In Search of Berlin by John Kampfner<br />
While many of the books mentioned so far give readers a broad overview and analysis of cities<br />
and their history, In Search of Berlin by John Kampfner will appeal to those who love minutiae<br />
and want more of a deep dive when tucking into a good book. Berlin is one of the most fascinat-<br />
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ing cities in the world. Located at the heart<br />
of Europe, it’s a place full of contradictions,<br />
constantly reinventing itself while also<br />
looking back at its turbulent past. In this<br />
book, Kampfner looks back at 800 years of<br />
history, studying archives, interviewing<br />
historians, architects and archaeologists,<br />
scrutinising every inch of the city. The<br />
book took four years to write, and its level<br />
of detail is unparalleled, as the author<br />
shares his journeys across the city and finds<br />
its hidden gems and stories, from the fallen<br />
statue of Lenin to cabaret stars thrown out<br />
of the city. Whether you’re planning a trip<br />
to Berlin, live in the city, or simply want to<br />
learn more about its history, this fascinating<br />
read will not disappoint.<br />
5 A Book of Days by Patti Smith<br />
Cities are not just made up of urban plans,<br />
revolutionary ideas and important events.<br />
Sometimes, cities represent our very own<br />
memories and Proustian feelings. Patti<br />
Smith has, quite truly, dedicated her life to<br />
making memories. In A Book of Days, the<br />
musician and bestselling author’s love for<br />
photography and words marry in a beautiful<br />
collection of 365 photographs. Each<br />
photograph and caption works as documentation<br />
of the passions and thoughts of the<br />
artist’s life, and throughout the book she<br />
honours the work of fellow artists she ad-<br />
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Happy City<br />
Discover how cities make people happy –<br />
and why life in suburbia is not quite as fulfilling.<br />
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Charles Montgomery, Penguin,<br />
CHF 19.90<br />
Imagine a City<br />
The true definition of having your feet<br />
on the ground and your head in the sky. See the<br />
biggest cities through the eyes of a pilot.<br />
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Mark Vanhoenacker, Chatto & Windus<br />
CHF 29.90<br />
Ten Cities that Led the World<br />
History buffs, this one’s for you! Uncover<br />
the cities that have made history, from Babylonia<br />
to Beijing.<br />
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Paul Strathern, Hodder & Stoughton,<br />
CHF 19.90<br />
In Search of Berlin<br />
Zoom in on the history of one city – discover<br />
the many complexities of Berlin, as well as the<br />
beauty it has to offer today.<br />
John Kampfner, Atlantic,<br />
CHF 28.90<br />
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mires, from writers to musicians, as well as loved ones, from friends<br />
to family with various cities as their backdrop. What transpires is<br />
the spirit of a human being who lives and breathes their passion,<br />
who has become one with their art and that of others, whose work<br />
and motivation in life are inextricably linked with even their most<br />
mundane moments. As it’s mostly photographic, this is a beautiful<br />
diary-style book to display on a coffee table or gift to someone who<br />
follows Patti Smith’s Instagram account.<br />
6 The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster<br />
If you’ve had enough of non-fiction and are after some good old<br />
fictional escapism, Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy is an excellent<br />
series to sink your teeth into with the crowded streets of – you<br />
guessed it – New York as its backdrop. Written in the mid-1980s,<br />
this trilogy was truly ahead of its time, mixing postmodern fiction<br />
with classic detective mystery, breaking the fourth wall, experimenting<br />
with philosophy and the concept of identity. In the first title,<br />
City of Glass, we see a mystery writer trotting the streets of New<br />
York, as he gets lost in a real-life mystery that must be solved. In<br />
the second book, Ghosts, a private investigator gets similarly lost in<br />
the life of the person investigated. And the third book takes us even<br />
deeper into madness, as a writer struggles with his own creativity<br />
and decides to take on another person’s identity. Each book vividly<br />
portrays the gruelling experience of being a writer, bringing readers<br />
to a trance as they lose themselves among the vividly described<br />
streets of New York City.<br />
9 The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton<br />
If stories set in today’s complicated reality hit too close to home,<br />
you may want to travel a bit further from Rome and back in time.<br />
Welcome to 17th century Amsterdam. Eighteen-year-old Nella is<br />
promised to Amsterdam-based Johannes Brandt, a merchant trader<br />
who lives with his sister. Nella is confronted with solitude from the<br />
get-go, a dreadful feeling relieved only by a small gift from her husband:<br />
a cabinet-sized replica of their house. She seeks out the help of<br />
a miniaturist to fill the rooms of her mini-house. And soon enough,<br />
through the small creation, Nella uncovers secrets of the very house<br />
she lives in, and realises that the miniaturist helping her knows<br />
much more about her new life than she thought. The Miniaturist by<br />
Jessie Burton was a true phenomenon before it even published: the<br />
focus of a heated bidding war between publishers, it went on to win<br />
awards, sell millions of copies, and translate into over 37 languages.<br />
It’s an addictive story of obsession, betrayal, and the need to go<br />
beyond appearances and to uncover truth.<br />
10 Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch<br />
An incredible way of exploring cities in books is by creating magical<br />
systems within them, and that’s exactly what Rivers of London<br />
by Ben Aaronovitch does excellently. An urban fantasy set in modern-day<br />
London, the story centres around Probationary Constable<br />
Peter Grant, who works for the London Metropolitan Police. His<br />
career is at a standstill, but things are about to dramatically change<br />
for him when he speaks to a ghost regarding a mystery murder<br />
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A Book of Days<br />
A beautiful coffee table<br />
book, a compendium of photographic<br />
memories, a feast for<br />
the eyes! Signed by one of the<br />
greatest artists of our time.<br />
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Patti Smith, Bloomsbury Publishing,<br />
CHF 46.90<br />
The New York<br />
Trilogy<br />
Postmodern fiction meets detective<br />
mystery in this series from<br />
the 80s set in the Big Apple.<br />
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Paul Auster, Faber & Faber,<br />
CHF 12.90<br />
Stories From the<br />
Tenants Downstairs<br />
Widen your horizons by<br />
meeting your neighbours. An<br />
exploration of community,<br />
gentrification and everyday<br />
struggles of life in the city.<br />
Sidik Fofana, John Murray,<br />
CHF 19.90<br />
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7 Stories From the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana<br />
From the very solitary experience of being a writer and getting lost<br />
in our own minds, prepare to be catapulted into the complete opposite<br />
experience of life in the city. We’re still in New York, and Sidik<br />
Fofana takes us into the heart of Harlem with a beautiful collection<br />
of eight short stories centred around one building: Banneker Terrace,<br />
a low-income high-rise. Its tenants all living under the looming<br />
threat of gentrification, living pay check to pay check, sometimes<br />
working multiple jobs, as they go through the motions of real,<br />
everyday life. We meet a single mother, a homeless street dancer, a<br />
college dropout facing eviction and so many more characters whose<br />
lives are intertwined with each other. It may seem that they’re each<br />
facing individual struggles, but they’re all equally moving through<br />
a world of poverty and injustice. This unromanticised view of life<br />
in the city is told through a third person omniscient narrative, yet<br />
each character holds their own individual voice, making this a<br />
varied but cohesive reading experience.<br />
8 Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri<br />
For short story lovers, we have another fantastic collection to share.<br />
While Stories from the Tenants Downstairs is very much centred<br />
around American culture, Roman Stories takes us to the ever so<br />
romanticised Rome in Italy. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri<br />
lived in Rome for many years, and she actually wrote these stories,<br />
now translated by Todd Portnowitz, in Italian. Inspired by some<br />
of Italy’s greatest literary voices, from Alberto Moravia to Dante<br />
Alighieri, Lahiri digs deep in the human experience, especially the<br />
sense of alienation, vulnerability and displacement. From families<br />
seeking refuge in their new country to migrant women facing<br />
racism to friends meeting in an osteria, each character is searching<br />
for a sense of home, even the Italian characters themselves. With<br />
hauntingly beautiful prose, Lahiri explores themes of belonging,<br />
social status, and family, with the beautiful architecture and social<br />
fabric of the eternal city bringing each story together.<br />
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La Bella Vita … or is it so? Short stories<br />
about short moments in a person’s life in Rome,<br />
told through different perspectives.<br />
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Jhumpa Lahiri, Picador, CHF 29.90<br />
The Miniaturist<br />
A magical story full of secrets set in 17th<br />
century Amsterdam that has captured the world<br />
since its release.<br />
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Jessie Burton, Picador, CHF 17.90<br />
Rivers of London<br />
A love letter to London! A member of the<br />
police force learns that some crimes are a bit more<br />
magical than others.<br />
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Ben Aaronovitch, Orion, CHF 16.90<br />
Dubliners<br />
The work of one of the biggest voices in<br />
literature to this day, Dubliners is a masterful piece<br />
of art from the Naturalism movement.<br />
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James Joyce, Penguin Classics, CHF 16.90<br />
A Moveable Feast<br />
Writers in Paris in the roaring twenties<br />
… What an era! For fans of the writers of the lost<br />
generation who want a sneak peek into their lives.<br />
Ernest Hemingway, Arrow, CHF 16.90<br />
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and realises that there’s a whole police department that deals with<br />
crimes involving magic. The magic system in this book is so unique,<br />
with much of it rooted in scientific theories and so much of the city<br />
of London weaved into it, making the book feel like a long love letter<br />
to the city from a Londoner. Since its publication in 2011, Rivers<br />
of London has extended into an incredibly successful series, so there<br />
are more Peter Grant books in store after this, but be warned: you<br />
will quickly fall head over heels for London!<br />
11 Dubliners by James Joyce<br />
Not all stories must have ground-breaking revelations, huge plot<br />
twists or magical worldbuilding. Sometimes, the best descriptions<br />
of city life are those that simply capture small, seemingly insignificant<br />
actions or moments. Finishing off our round-up with some<br />
classics that vividly describe cities, we couldn’t leave out literature’s<br />
greatest: Dubliners by James Joyce. These stories are a great example<br />
of the Naturalism movement in literature: most are observing quite<br />
ordinary main characters leading ordinary lives. The author tells<br />
the stories of 15 fictional Dubliners inspired by real people he met:<br />
a little boy who sees death for the first time, a young boy falling<br />
in love, a young woman deciding whether she should elope with<br />
her lover, a young man spending beyond his means, all the way<br />
to unfaithful spouses reflecting on life and death. The stories in<br />
this collection are so deeply rooted in reality, Joyce spent ten years<br />
trying to get them published. Every publisher but one refused to<br />
publish them, because they were too afraid of being sued!<br />
12 A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway<br />
And to conclude our exciting list, this wouldn’t be a selection of<br />
books about cities for book lovers without including the great hub<br />
of literature: Paris. Paris was home of the so-called Lost Generation,<br />
a group of literary figures who lived in Paris in the 1920s and who<br />
we now revere, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and E. E. Cummings.<br />
Their writing is a reflection of the lost values following the tragedy<br />
and immense loss of World War I, and it was Earnest Hemingway<br />
who popularised the term in his book A Moveable Feast, a collection<br />
of Hemingway’s personal papers published posthumously. In this<br />
book, Hemingway, still an unknown writer, walks the streets of<br />
Paris, surrounded by author friends James Joyce, the Fitzgeralds,<br />
Gertrude Stein and many more. This memoir is a coming-of-age<br />
story of an author discovering his passion and talent for writing<br />
thanks to the endless inspiration gifted by the magical French city<br />
of lights. Whether cities inspire you to be creative like Hemingway,<br />
take you on incredible journeys of magic or simply work as a<br />
window into a country’s culture on your travels, it’s impossible not<br />
to marvel at how they’ve shaped our world, moulding new ideas,<br />
creating change and each carving a special place in our hearts.<br />
Mysterious librarian Sayuri<br />
has a particular skill for<br />
recommending books that will<br />
guide people towards their<br />
goals. This Japanese bestseller<br />
is a celebration of books and<br />
their impact on our lives. It’s a<br />
beautiful, atmospheric tale for<br />
fans of When the Coffee Gets<br />
Cold and The Midnight Library.<br />
How many of us really know<br />
what our parents were like<br />
before we were born? Patchett<br />
explores this idea through Lara,<br />
who reveals her past to her<br />
three daughters. With a compelling<br />
narrative, and described<br />
as “life rather than literature”<br />
by The Guardian, this is truly a<br />
novel to revel in.<br />
Introducing<br />
1970s Brooklyn is a dangerous<br />
place where even criminals<br />
must play by the rules. Witty<br />
and entertaining at the same<br />
time as offering social commentary,<br />
Brooklyn Crime Novel<br />
is a love letter to Brooklyn by<br />
someone who not only knows it<br />
intimately, but is also a writer<br />
on top of his game.<br />
Jackson’s teen thriller, now a<br />
TikTok sensation and soon to<br />
be a BBC series, has been taking<br />
the world by storm since it was<br />
published in 2019. Fans who<br />
can’t get enough of Pippa and<br />
Ravi will love this stunning<br />
collector’s edition with striking,<br />
coloured edges and a special<br />
letter from the author.<br />
What You Are Looking<br />
For Is in the Library<br />
Michiko Aoyama and Alison Watts,<br />
Doubleday, CHF 24.90<br />
Tom Lake<br />
Ann Patchett, HarperCollins<br />
Publishers US, CHF 28.90<br />
Brooklyn Crime Novel<br />
Jonathan Lethem, HarperCollins<br />
Publishers US, CHF 39.90<br />
A Good Girl’s Guide<br />
to Murder [collector’s<br />
edition]<br />
Holly Jackson, HarperCollins<br />
Publishers UK, CHF 29.90<br />
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When Flor Marte decides to<br />
hold her own living wake, her<br />
family members are unsure if<br />
she’s predicted her own death,<br />
and she seems not to be the only<br />
one with secrets. Family Lore is<br />
a multi-generational novel that<br />
explores the past and present<br />
lives of the Marte women.<br />
Family Lore<br />
Elizabeth Acevedo, Canongate,<br />
CHF 29.90<br />
Working as a transcriber for a<br />
sex therapist means that Greta<br />
knows the juiciest secrets of<br />
just about everyone in Hudson,<br />
as long as she bumps into them<br />
and recognises their voices.<br />
Hailed as one of the funniest<br />
novels of the year, Big Swiss is<br />
dark as well as comical.<br />
Big Swiss<br />
Jen Beagin, Faber, CHF 19.90<br />
A Nobel-Prize-winning scientist<br />
with signs of Alzheimer’s<br />
disease attends a biotech<br />
conference. While there, she<br />
learns about the work of another<br />
scientist that could lead to a<br />
cure. But research like that can<br />
attract negative attention … An<br />
unpredictable debut thriller by<br />
actor Richard Armitage.<br />
Geneva<br />
Richard Armitage, Faber, CHF 26.90<br />
Aging, memory, and love<br />
are the major themes of<br />
Baumgartner, Auster’s 18th<br />
novel. Titled for its protagonist,<br />
who is a 71-year-old philosopher<br />
reminiscing about his life,<br />
especially the precious time he<br />
spent with his late wife, this is<br />
an illuminating and compassionate<br />
story.<br />
Baumgartner<br />
Paul Auster, Faber, CHF 36.90<br />
Release Date: 7 November 2<strong>02</strong>3<br />
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What We Loved<br />
Recommendations from our book experts.<br />
Jane, Stauffacher Bern<br />
1<br />
An incredibly entertaining and<br />
well-written novel about a woman in<br />
science in the 1960s, working in a very<br />
male-dominated environment. Elizabeth<br />
Zott is a great chemist, but is the world of<br />
science ready for her? Elizabeth is not one<br />
to allow a man to stand in her way, so when<br />
she is fired from her job for getting pregnant<br />
and left as a single mother, her determination<br />
to succeed only grows stronger.<br />
An incredible story of a woman following<br />
her passion. A charming, enlightening and<br />
undeniably feminist tale set in mid-century<br />
America.<br />
Lessons in Chemistry<br />
Bonnie Garmus, Penguin, CHF 18.90<br />
Tashina, Stauffacher Bern<br />
This book is a piece of art that should<br />
2<br />
be put in a museum. Henry and Alex<br />
are such multilayered characters whose<br />
relationship is crafted perfectly; I was rooting<br />
for them! This novel will make you cry,<br />
laugh, and believe in true love. The story is<br />
heart-warming and unforgettable, it will<br />
stay in your heart forever.<br />
Red, White & Royal Blue<br />
Casey McQuiston, Macmillan, CHF 18.90<br />
Johanna, Orell Füssli Basel<br />
3<br />
You don’t have to be a gamer to love<br />
this book! You don’t even have to know<br />
anything about games to be able to immerse<br />
yourself in the world of Sam and Sadie:<br />
two kids who connect over a game of Super<br />
Mario and then go on to design highly<br />
successful games themselves. Spanning 30<br />
years, this is a story of success and failure,<br />
friendship and deceit, love and tragedy, and<br />
the ever-redemptive possibilities in playing<br />
games. Simply brilliant!<br />
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,<br />
and Tomorrow<br />
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, CHF 18.90<br />
Elena, Orell Füssli Kramhof<br />
4<br />
& The Bookshop<br />
I can’t and won’t stop recommending this<br />
book! I laughed, I cried, and I fell in love<br />
with the characters. So far my favourite<br />
read this year.<br />
Happy Place<br />
Emily Henry, Viking, CHF 24.90<br />
Dagmar, Orell Füssli Thun<br />
5<br />
Set in 1975 Ireland during the<br />
Troubles, Trespasses evolves around two<br />
significant aspects of the life of Cushla, a<br />
young Catholic teacher who lives with her<br />
alcoholic mother in a small working-class<br />
town near Belfast. In one story, she falls for<br />
Michael, a much older, married, Protestant<br />
barrister. In the second, we follow Cushla’s<br />
involvement in the home life of Davy, one<br />
of her young pupils who is bullied. From<br />
the very beginning, I felt sure both stories<br />
would find no happy ending. Yet this book<br />
is so tenderly written, full of detail and<br />
compassion for its characters and for the<br />
special place and time they live in, that it<br />
wouldn’t let me go, even after I had finished<br />
reading it. Kennedy’s wonderful, complex<br />
debut novel is now shortlisted for the Women’s<br />
Prize for Fiction 2<strong>02</strong>3.<br />
5<br />
Trespasses<br />
Louise Kennedy, Bloomsbury Publishing, CHF 18.90<br />
6<br />
Livia, Orell Füssli Airport Center<br />
Monika, Orell Füssli Wil<br />
8<br />
Brutal, feminist, different. Full of<br />
A mysterious shipping container is<br />
10<br />
magic and dark reality. A book that portrays<br />
women, their freedom, their destiny,<br />
their daily struggle, and their beauty in a<br />
way you’ve never read before.<br />
discovered at the port of Norrtälje. Once the<br />
container is opened, nothing is the same:<br />
for no apparent reason, people become<br />
aggressive and violent.<br />
This extraordinary horror story explores<br />
Who Fears Death<br />
Nnedi Okorafor, HarperCollins Publishers UK, CHF 18.90<br />
how fear can turn “good” people into monsters.<br />
A compelling read that really got me<br />
thinking.<br />
Jennifer, Orell Füssli Bellevue<br />
7<br />
A wonderfully weird and wacky tale<br />
that is beautifully and touchingly told. K.<br />
Wilson shows how any trauma can be overcome<br />
with enough love, understanding,<br />
patience, and compassion.<br />
Nothing to See Here<br />
Kevin Wilson, HarperCollins Publishers US, CHF 19.90<br />
7<br />
The Kindness<br />
John Ajvide Lindqvist, Quercus, CHF 29.90<br />
Nadine, Orell Füssli Kramhof<br />
9<br />
& The Bookshop<br />
A story about being in love in modern<br />
London. It’s about the little joys in life, and<br />
about finding your place in the world. It’s<br />
fresh, intelligent, and honest. A new comfort<br />
read, for sure.<br />
Okay Days<br />
Jenny Mustard, Hodder & Stoughton, CHF 29.90<br />
Catherine<br />
Gory and gothic, Anatomy is much<br />
more than the “love story” the subtitle<br />
promises. Clearly inspired by Mary Shelley’s<br />
Frankenstein but written in a pacy,<br />
modern style, it’s a brilliant read for teens<br />
and adults with a taste for the Romantic era.<br />
I can’t wait to read the second part!<br />
Anatomy<br />
Dana Schwartz, Little, Brown, CHF 18.90<br />
Glòria, Orell Füssli Bellevue<br />
11<br />
These psychological portraits throw<br />
a very revealing light on the intimate<br />
thoughts of the characters and illustrate<br />
with unapologetic rawness what it means<br />
to be a woman today – the pressure, the<br />
expectations, the challenges, and the glory<br />
of it all. Thought-provoking, fascinating,<br />
and radically brilliant.<br />
Ghost Lover<br />
Lisa Taddeo, Bloomsbury Publishing, CHF 18.90<br />
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12<br />
13<br />
Yaiza, Orell Füssli Bern<br />
12<br />
Magical, quirky, and heart-warming.<br />
This novel tells the experience of 25-yearold<br />
Takako, with all the complexities of her<br />
relationships and the bookshop that has<br />
been in her family for three generations.<br />
As summer fades into autumn, Takako<br />
and her uncle discover they have more in<br />
common than they first thought. Great for<br />
Japanese-literature lovers.<br />
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop<br />
Satoshi Yagisawa, HarperCollins Publishers US, CHF 19.90<br />
Dario, Orell Füssli SBB Bern<br />
13<br />
Every morning employees at Orsk<br />
find objects misplaced and furniture<br />
spoiled. One day the store manager decides<br />
to solve this mystery and stays overnight<br />
with some of his coworkers, and that’s<br />
when the nightmare starts. A ghost story<br />
inside a furniture store: what could go<br />
wrong? Even the book looks and feels like a<br />
furniture catalogue.<br />
Horrorstör<br />
Grady Hendrix, Quirk Books, CHF 19.90<br />
Renate, Orell Füssli Kramhof<br />
14<br />
& The Bookshop<br />
Dr Miriam Price is dead, due to an overdose<br />
of pills and lots of booze. Death by<br />
misadventure, say the police, but Miriam<br />
knows better: she was murdered. And she<br />
is determined to prove it, even if it means to<br />
ask her much-detested neighbour for help.<br />
A hilarious read, with lots of dark humour.<br />
Over My Dead Body<br />
Maz Evans, Headline, CHF 29.90<br />
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Almost 75 years since it was<br />
published, George Orwell’s<br />
1984 remains a terrifying<br />
dystopian vision and a modern<br />
classic. Now, Newman brings<br />
us Julia’s version of the events.<br />
Offering deeper insight into<br />
Orwell’s world with a feminist<br />
slant, this clever retelling is not<br />
for the faint-hearted.<br />
Julia<br />
Sandra Newman, Granta, CHF 29.90<br />
Talasyn has ancient magic in<br />
her blood. Magic that Prince<br />
Alaric wants to eliminate. But<br />
what happens when their<br />
powers clash? Hurricane Wars<br />
is the unputdownable first<br />
volume of a highly anticipated<br />
fantasy-romance trilogy. With<br />
stunning worldbuilding, Guanzon’s<br />
debut makes her a talent<br />
to watch.<br />
The Hurricane Wars<br />
Thea Guanzon, HarperCollins<br />
Publishers US, CHF 23.90<br />
In Emperor of Rome, Mary Beard,<br />
one of the world’s leading<br />
classicists and professor at<br />
Cambridge University, brings<br />
us a different, personal account<br />
of emperors from Caesar to<br />
Severus. Breaking down our assumptions<br />
that these men were<br />
cruel and brutal, Beard paints<br />
them in a fascinating new light.<br />
Emperor of Rome<br />
Mary Beard, Profile, CHF 54.90<br />
Dystopian fantasy abounds<br />
in Shannon’s much-loved<br />
Bone Season series. This tenth<br />
anniversary edition is revised<br />
and reimagined, including an<br />
additional prequel, The Pale<br />
Dreamer. Established fans and<br />
new readers alike will love<br />
diving into gothic London and<br />
following Paige into other<br />
people's dreams.<br />
The Bone Season<br />
Samantha Shannon, Bloomsbury<br />
Publishing, CHF 38.90<br />
Mixing up your charms and<br />
potions? Can’t identify the<br />
magical creature flying past<br />
your window? The Wizarding<br />
World Almanac is here to help.<br />
The only official compendium<br />
for all things Harry Potter, it<br />
must be charmed like Newt<br />
Scamander’s suitcase to keep<br />
all these facts and illustrations<br />
inside!<br />
The Wizarding World<br />
Almanac<br />
J. K. Rowling, Peter Goes, Louise Lockhart,<br />
Weitong Mai, Olia Muza, Pham Quang Phuc,<br />
Levi Pinfold, and Tomislav Tomic, Bloomsbury<br />
Publishing, CHF 54.90<br />
Even for an experienced CIA<br />
spy, extracting someone who<br />
has risky information from<br />
the border between Pakistan,<br />
Iran, and Afghanistan is not an<br />
easy task. Especially not when<br />
someone fuelled by vengeance<br />
stands in their way, and this is<br />
what Kane is up against in this<br />
riveting thriller.<br />
The Year of the Locust<br />
Terry Hayes, Bantam Press, CHF 22.90<br />
Release Date: 9 November 2<strong>02</strong>3<br />
Titled with a line from Dante’s<br />
Inferno, Let Us Descend is a<br />
powerful depiction of Black<br />
American slavery. As Annis<br />
is forced to trudge all the way<br />
to New Orleans, she finds<br />
strength in the natural world,<br />
and the memories of her mother<br />
and grandmother. A masterful<br />
novel of hardship and rebirth.<br />
Let Us Descend<br />
Jesmyn Ward, Bloomsbury Publishing,<br />
CHF 27.90<br />
Choosing to live on an island<br />
with disgraced academics to<br />
further her own career, Helen<br />
has to learn to balance ambition<br />
and morality … Science, cancel<br />
culture, #MeToo, and comedy.<br />
How I Won a Nobel Prize<br />
weaves major issues of today<br />
into a thoughtful, witty, and<br />
extremely original novel.<br />
How I Won a Nobel Prize<br />
Julius Taranto, Picador, CHF 29.90<br />
20 <strong>Bookmark</strong> Magazine Book Experts<br />
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Introducing<br />
21
Stories for Young and Old<br />
These books are bound to take you back to the stories<br />
that grew us into readers.<br />
Text von Christine Modafferi<br />
‘Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.’<br />
This brilliant quote by C. S. Lewis reminds us of the power of children’s<br />
books, and why kids and adults alike should never shy away<br />
from reading a good book, no matter the age range it is intended<br />
for. So in honour of falling in love with the beauty of a good story,<br />
let us take a look at some of the best children’s releases, starting at<br />
the beginning with a little one’s first introduction to stories: picture<br />
books, continuing with middle grade and last but not least, YA<br />
recommendations. Whether you are gifting this to a special child in<br />
your life or nurturing and healing your inner child, these books are<br />
bound to take you back to the stories that grew us into readers.<br />
Aged 4 and up<br />
Friendship, dreams and working together<br />
to create change make for the perfect<br />
picture book.<br />
On a similar note, a strong message of hope<br />
is weaved into the words and illustrations<br />
of Something, Someday. Written by presidential<br />
inaugural poet Amanda Gorman<br />
and illustrated by award-winning illustrator<br />
Christian Robinson, this beautiful book<br />
is about how, however small we may feel in<br />
this messy, complicated world, together we<br />
can make a BIG difference. It is also about<br />
the importance of finding true friendship<br />
and the beauty of hoping, dreaming and<br />
fighting together for change. Who ever said<br />
children’s books cannot change the world?<br />
4+<br />
Something, Someday<br />
Amanda Gorman, Christian<br />
Robinson (illustrator),<br />
Penguin Books UK,<br />
CHF 23.90<br />
4+<br />
What You Need<br />
to Be Warm<br />
Neil Gaiman,<br />
HarperCollins Publishers US,<br />
CHF 23.90<br />
Release Date: 31 October<br />
2<strong>02</strong>3<br />
Aged 8 and up<br />
A brand-new read from the middle-grade<br />
master.<br />
Moving down to books for readers aged<br />
8+, also called middle grade books, we are<br />
starting strong with an author who many<br />
of our readers might recognise from when<br />
they first fell in love with books: Patricia C.<br />
Wrede, author of the bestselling Enchanted<br />
Forest Chronicles series. In her latest release,<br />
The Dark Lord’s Daughter, Kayla, an<br />
ordinary girl, discovers she is actually the<br />
daughter of a dark lord, and gets whisked<br />
off to a fantasy world, along with her adoptive<br />
mother and brother. In complete Patricia<br />
C. Wrede style, Kayla will have to battle<br />
her new society’s expectations surrounding<br />
what a Dark Lady should do, and she has<br />
her own thoughts about how to manage her<br />
new status...<br />
A gorgeous picture book with a strong<br />
message about helping those in need.<br />
And finally, the picture books. Perfect<br />
bedtime stories to read aloud, you are in<br />
for a treat with our last two children’s<br />
recommendations. We often think of Neil<br />
Gaiman as the master of fantasy, but the<br />
prolific UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador’s<br />
pen lends itself to an important cause in this<br />
32-page picture book: helping those who<br />
need a home. With a strong core message<br />
around the ideas of warmth and community,<br />
as well as beautiful illustrations<br />
throughout by some of the biggest names<br />
in publishing, from Chris Riddell and<br />
Benji Davies to Yuliya Gwilym and Nadine<br />
Kaadan, this is the perfect book to set on a<br />
coffee table or to keep you and your little<br />
ones warm at bedtime.<br />
The Dark Lord’s Daughter<br />
Patricia C. Wrede,<br />
Random House US,<br />
CHF 14.90<br />
8+<br />
Illustration from the Book Megamonster<br />
A knee-slappingly funny illustrated<br />
book for reluctant readers.<br />
If you are looking for a fail-safe book that<br />
children aged 8+ will love, Megamonster by<br />
multi-million bestselling author David Walliams<br />
will do the trick. Set in an imaginary<br />
school called The Cruel School, which is<br />
found on an island surrounded by sharks,<br />
welcome to a world where school dinners<br />
are vomit-inducing, lessons include Gabber<br />
language classes and the teachers are truly<br />
horrific! Larker is not at all happy when she<br />
is sent to this strange school, and one teacher<br />
in particular is very suspicious... With<br />
black-and-white illustrations by Tony Ross<br />
throughout, the book makes for a hilarious<br />
read that will win over even reluctant<br />
readers!<br />
8+<br />
Fireborn (2) – Phoenix<br />
and the Frost Palace<br />
Aisling Fowler,<br />
HarperCollins Publishers UK,<br />
CHF 16.90<br />
9+<br />
Megamonster<br />
David Walliams,<br />
HarperCollins Publishers UK,<br />
CHF 16.90<br />
A fantasy adventure for readers who<br />
love imaginative world-building.<br />
Continuing our round-up with another<br />
fantastic fantasy read for middle graders,<br />
let us introduce you to the second book in<br />
the bestselling fantasy series Fireborn by<br />
Aisling Fowler. Featuring journeys to new<br />
lands, an entire witch-clan, a strange darkness,<br />
and a terrible enemy, this is a true fantasy<br />
adventure story, brimming with new<br />
worlds and imaginative world-building.<br />
Join Twelve, who now has the new name<br />
Phoenix, as she uses her powers of fire to<br />
answer a plea for help.<br />
Aged 14 and up<br />
14+<br />
The Scarlet Veil<br />
Shelby Mahurin,<br />
HarperCollins<br />
Publishers UK,<br />
CHF 21.90<br />
High stakes and fast-paced, for readers<br />
looking for a story with edge.<br />
On the topic of morally grey characters<br />
... meet some characters who are especially<br />
good at stealing. However, with<br />
thieving comes serious danger and seventeen-year-old<br />
Ross Quest’s mother has been<br />
kidnapped as a consequence of the life she<br />
and her family lead. Therefore, Ross enters<br />
a competition for thieves. The grand prize?<br />
A granted wish. And her wish is to find her<br />
mother, no matter what it takes. High-octane<br />
and full of twists, turns, betrayal,<br />
action, and suspense, Thieves’ Gambit by<br />
Kayvion Lewis is one of the most highly<br />
anticipated titles of the year.<br />
14+<br />
One of Us Is Back<br />
Karen M. McManus,<br />
Delacorte Press, CHF 16.90<br />
Romantacy and vampires, perfect for<br />
fans of Sarah J Maas.<br />
For YA and romantasy lovers, Shelby Mahurin's<br />
The Scarlet Veil is the first book in a<br />
new duology set in the much-loved Serpent<br />
& Dove world, centring on character Célie,<br />
who has taken on the role of huntress, vowing<br />
to protect the land of Belterra. If the fact<br />
that Sarah J. Maas said this book kept her<br />
‘reading long into the night’ is not enough<br />
for you to pick up this book, let us convince<br />
you to read this by promising: vampires,<br />
a slow-burn romance with a morally grey<br />
love interest, and a murder mystery. This is<br />
the perfect read whether you love fantasy<br />
novels with a gothic atmosphere or are simply<br />
in the mood for vampire nostalgia.<br />
14+<br />
Thieves’ Gambit<br />
Kayvion Lewis,<br />
Simon & Schuster UK,<br />
CHF 18.90<br />
The concluding instalment in the<br />
best-selling series.<br />
To conclude our YA recommendations, we<br />
thought we would end with a bang. And<br />
what could be more of a banger than the<br />
very last book in the One of Us Is... trilogy?<br />
We are back at Bayview High, where its<br />
students just cannot seem to get a break and<br />
secrets hide in every crack of the school<br />
building. This time, one of the Bayview<br />
crew members goes missing and a new<br />
deadly game is in play. The crew will have<br />
to figure out who is behind it this time, so<br />
they can finally end this story once and for<br />
all.<br />
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ZAP<br />
Furkastrasse 3, 3900 Brig<br />
ZAP Bürostore<br />
Englischgrussstrasse 6, 3900 Brig<br />
BRUGG<br />
Orell Füssli<br />
Neumarktplatz 12, 5200 Brugg<br />
CHUR<br />
Orell Füssli City West<br />
Raschärenstrasse 35, 7000 Chur<br />
EMMENBRÜCKE<br />
Orell Füssli Emmen Center<br />
Stauffacherstrasse 1, 6<strong>02</strong>0 Emmenbrücke<br />
FRAUENFELD<br />
Orell Füssli<br />
Bahnhofplatz 76, 8500 Frauenfeld<br />
KRIENS<br />
Orell Füssli Pilatusmarkt<br />
Ringstrasse 19, 6010 Kriens<br />
Discover seven million<br />
products in our online shop<br />
at orellfuessli.ch<br />
Opening hours at:<br />
orellfüssli.ch/filialen<br />
Customer Service: 0848 849 848<br />
LUZERN<br />
Orell Füssli Bahnhof Luzern<br />
Zentralstrasse 1, 6003 Luzern<br />
OLTEN<br />
Orell Füssli OUTLET<br />
Einkaufszentrum Sälipark<br />
Louis Giroud-Strasse 26, 4600 Olten<br />
PFÄFFIKON SZ<br />
Orell Füssli Seedamm-Center<br />
Gwattstrasse 11, 8808 Pfäffikon<br />
RAPPERSWIL<br />
BUCHparadies Sonnenhof<br />
8640 Rapperswil<br />
REGENSDORF<br />
Orell Füssli Zentrum Regensdorf<br />
Im Zentrum 1, 8105 Regensdorf<br />
SCHAFFHAUSEN<br />
Orell Füssli<br />
Vordergasse 77, 8200 Schaffhausen<br />
SCHÖNBÜHL<br />
Orell Füssli Shoppyland<br />
Industriestrasse 10, 3321 Schönbühl<br />
SOLOTHURN<br />
Orell Füssli Ladedorf<br />
Fabrikstrasse 6, 4513 Langendorf<br />
SPREITENBACH<br />
Orell Füssli Shoppi Basement<br />
8957 Spreitenbach<br />
ST. GALLEN<br />
Rösslitor Orell Füssli<br />
Marktgasse/Spitalgasse 4, 9004 St. Gallen<br />
Orell Füssli Bahnhof St. Gallen<br />
Poststrasse 30, 9000 St. Gallen<br />
Orell Füssli Shopping Arena<br />
Zürcherstrasse 464, 9015 St. Gallen<br />
ST. MARGRETHEN<br />
Orell Füssli Rheinpark<br />
9430 St. Margrethen<br />
THUN<br />
Orell Füssli<br />
Bälliz 60, 3600 Thun<br />
Orell Füssli Zentrum Oberland<br />
Talackerstrasse 62, 3604 Thun<br />
VISP<br />
ZAP<br />
Bahnhofstrasse 21, 3930 Visp<br />
VOLKETSWIL<br />
Orell Füssli Volkiland<br />
Industriestrasse 1, 8604 Volketswil<br />
coming<br />
soon<br />
WÄDENSWIL<br />
BUCHparadies<br />
Zugerstrasse 23, 8820 Wädenswil<br />
WEINFELDEN<br />
Opening on November 16th:<br />
Orell Füssli Rösslifelsen<br />
Amriswilerstrasse 12, 8570 Weinfelden<br />
WIL<br />
Orell Füssli Wil<br />
Obere Bahnhofstrasse 23, 9500 Wil<br />
WINTERTHUR<br />
Orell Füssli Marktgasse<br />
Marktgasse 41, 8400 Winterthur<br />
Orell Füssli Einkaufszentrum Rosenberg<br />
Schaffhauserstrasse 152, 8400 Winterthur<br />
ZERMATT<br />
ZAP<br />
Hofmattstrasse 3, 3920 Zermatt<br />
ZUG<br />
Orell Füssli Metalli<br />
Industriestrasse 15b, 6300 Zug<br />
ZÜRICH<br />
Orell Füssli Kramhof<br />
Orell Füssli The Bookshop<br />
Füsslistrasse 4, 8001 Zürich<br />
Barth Bücher Zürich Hauptbahnhof<br />
Bahnhofpassage, 8001 Zürich<br />
Orell Füssli am Bellevue<br />
Theaterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich<br />
Orell Füssli Bahnhof SBB Stadelhofen<br />
Untergeschoss, Stadelhoferstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich<br />
Orell Füssli Zürich Hauptbahnhof<br />
Shopville, Halle Landesmuseum, 8001 Zürich<br />
Orell Füssli Europaallee<br />
Europaallee 8, 8004 Zürich<br />
Transa Books by Orell Füssli<br />
Lagerstrasse 4, 8004 Zürich<br />
Orell Füssli Flughafen<br />
Airport Center, 8060 Zürich-Flughafen<br />
Orell Füssli Bahnhof Oerlikon<br />
Ladenpassage Mitte, Hofwiesenstrasse 369,<br />
8050 Zürich<br />
Orell Füssli Neumarkt Altstetten<br />
Altstetterstrasse 145, 8048 Zürich<br />
Orell Füssli ETH Stores<br />
Polyterrasse, Leonhardstrasse 36<br />
Hönggerberg, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 14<br />
Wide selection<br />
of English books<br />
available.