Fiction
Explore the best fiction books of all time, including top science fiction, fantasy, historical, and romantic novels. Find famous novels and best-selling titles at our online bookstore, offering the best books to read.
-
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other StoriesA glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner. "Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How...
- CHF 22.98
- CHF 22.98
- Unit price
- per
-
Barely LegalIn this nonstop thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series, the protégé will become the hero as Herbie Fisher gets caught in a web of deceit, corruption, and greed. Under the tutelage of Stone Barrington, Herbie Fisher...
- CHF 15.30
- CHF 15.30
- Unit price
- per
-
Sweet Tomorrows: A Rose Harbor Novel#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The much-anticipated conclusion to Debbie Macomber's beloved Rose Harbor series, set in the picturesque town of Cedar Cove, Sweet Tomorrows is a vibrant and poignant novel of letting go of fear, following your heart, and embracing the future--come...
- CHF 39.81
- CHF 39.81
- Unit price
- per
-
The Luster of Lost ThingsIn this story for readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Man Called Ove, when all seems lost, he finds what matters most. Walter Lavender Jr. is a master of finding. A wearer of high-tops. A maker of...
- CHF 22.98
- CHF 22.98
- Unit price
- per
-
The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement VillageJoanna Nell's life-affirming debut is a moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and community in the spirit of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY and GRACE AND FRANKIE. The life of 79-year-old pensioner PEGGY SMART is as beige as the décor in her retirement...
- CHF 24.48
- CHF 24.48
- Unit price
- per
-
The Desert NurseAmid the Australian Army hospitals of World War I Egypt, two deeply determined individuals find the resilience of their love tested to its limits It's 1911, and 21-year-old Evelyn Northey desperately wants to become a doctor. Her father forbids it, withholding the inheritance that...
- CHF 29.08
- CHF 29.08
- Unit price
- per
-
Awol: Timekeeper Trilogy Bk 3Fate is open to intervention.The final book in the Timekeeper trilogy. The timekeepers return to the Astro-Marine Institute Explorer (AIME) to stop their nemesis interfering with the departure of an otherworldly being currently residing on Oceane. they agree to regroup one week before the...
- CHF 26.02
- CHF 26.02
- Unit price
- per
-
Browning Sahib'I'm in love with Vivien Leigh, and I'm the most miserable bastard on earth.' When Browning's old drinking mate Peter Finch utters these words, Browning realizes that trouble looms. Within the space of a few short hours he finds himself caught up in a...
- CHF 19.67
- CHF 19.67
- Unit price
- per
-
A Family ConcernA new Rona Parish mysteryJournalist Rona Parish is eager for a fresh challenge. A chance encounter with an old friend, Kate, now married into the Tarlton family, gives her an idea. Rona will research the histories of several long-established family firms in the town,...
- CHF 15.69
- CHF 15.69
- Unit price
- per
-
Murder at Whitby AbbeyDispatched to Whitby Abbey to barter for a Holy Relic, Hildegard of Meaux is plunged into a baffling murder investigation in this gripping medieval mystery. Late December, 1389. Ordered to undertake a gruelling three-day journey to bleak Whitby Abbey in the far north of...
- CHF 38.04
- CHF 38.04
- Unit price
- per
-
Inheritance TracksDetectives Sloan and Crosby investigate a fatal inheritance settlement in the twenty-fifth instalment of this popular cozy mystery series Four strangers arrive at the solicitors' office of Puckle, Puckle, and Nunnery. They have never met, and have no idea why they have been invited....
- CHF 30.43
- CHF 30.43
- Unit price
- per
-
Sight UnseenActress Enora Andresson is dragged into the UK's exploding drugs scene when her son's girlfriend is kidnapped. Malo is in trouble again. Enora Andressen's wayward son has received a ransom demand for the return of his girlfriend, the daughter of a wealthy Colombian business...
- CHF 39.36
- CHF 39.36
- Unit price
- per
-
Music MacabreRayne is a fine writer, a sure-handed plotter and skillful character builder ... Fox is perhaps her most intriguing creation. He's a nifty guy to spend time with, and the elaborate mysteries he gets involved in are always captivating Researching a biography of the...
- CHF 38.04
- CHF 38.04
- Unit price
- per
-
Dressed to KillThis is a highly enjoyable book for dog-loving cozy fanciers, with charming characters, a fair play plot, and a hands-on heroine Publishers Weekly on Blood Red, White and Blue Santa Louisa's Halloween celebrations are derailed when a masked killer dressed as a clown strikes...
- CHF 30.43
- CHF 30.43
- Unit price
- per
-
Silent FootstepsConstable Hazel Best attracts a sinister new admirer in this absorbing police procedural. When does a secret admirer become a stalker? When chocolates on the doorstep give way to the sound of an intruder on the stairs? When the victim's friends are waylaid in...
- CHF 30.43
- CHF 30.43
- Unit price
- per
-
Cookin' the BooksLiterary caterer Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon fights to save her reputation and catch a killer when a murder occurs during a fundraising dinner for the local library. Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon has just moved to Hobson Glen and opened a new restaurant and catering business, Cookin'...
- CHF 36.74
- CHF 36.74
- Unit price
- per
-
Cyanide with ChristieA game of charades ends in coldblooded murder in this entertaining cozy mystery, third in the Crime with the Classics series. Having finished transforming Windy Corner, the grand Victorian mansion she inherited from her great aunt, into a writers' retreat, widowed literature professor Emily...
- CHF 38.04
- CHF 38.04
- Unit price
- per
-
Murder at the Queen's Old CastleOn her first visit for fifty years to Cork's main department store, the Queen's Old Castle, the Reverend Mother is struck by how little has changed. But when the store's owner staggers from his office and topples over the railings to his death, Mother...
- CHF 43.25
- CHF 43.25
- Unit price
- per
-
Murder in the DarkThe sudden appearance of a sinister black hole in the English countryside leads to a baffling murder investigation for Ishmael Jones. "The past is England's dreaming, and not all of it sleeps soundly ..." Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been despatched to...
- CHF 45.92
- CHF 45.92
- Unit price
- per
-
BloodmoonA secret mission. A murdered abbot. A false accusation: the compelling new Sister Fidelma mystery. Ireland, AD 671. Sister Fidelma has a mission, and she is sworn by oath to reveal her purpose to no other. The secret investigation leads her and her companions...
- CHF 45.92
- CHF 45.92
- Unit price
- per