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- The Gilded Chalet
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- Signing copies of The Gilded Chalet at Stanfords Travel bookshop in London
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- Signed copies at Daunt Books
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- The Gilded Chalet (paperback), 2017
“With a sharp eye for detail and a historian’s capacious knowledge, Padraig Rooney has written a superbly amusing guide to all the writers who’ve been drawn to or emerged from Switzerland.”
EDMUND WHITE, author of The Flâneur
“A fascinating look behind the scenery at how Switzerland has influenced and affected some of the greatest authors and some of my favourite books.”
DICCON BEWES, author of Slow Train to Switzerland
“An enjoyable wander around literary Switzerland. His journey sees him track the snow prints, shattered booze-glasses and missed spy drops of the likes of Rousseau, Byron, Hemingway and le Carré.”
WANDERLUST Magazine
“A gossipy feel [with a ] touch of Clive James in its humour. What has Switzerland ever done for us? Quite a bit.”
IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY
“Rooney is almost casually brilliant on Joyce, Nabokov, Mann … his observations on how and why writers embed Switzerland into their work are often brilliant.”
THE HERALD
UK Paperback edition due out February 2017
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