Book review: The Gilded Chalet: Off-piste in literary Switzerland

WHAT is Switzerland actually for? It is where the self proclaimers gather and gorge themselves while hob-nobbing with Bono while Davos plays host to a battalion of bankers and politicians.

Sat, 05 Mar, 2016 - 00:00

Review Andrew Melsom

Padraig Rooney

Nicholas Brealey, £20

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Arts Film & TV Books The Gilded Chalet: Off-piste in literary Switzerland Padraig Rooney Place: Switzerland Place: Palace Hotel Place: Gstaad Place: Reichenbach Falls Place: Eton Place: Sandhurst Place: Geneva Place: Zurich Place: Harrow Place: Alps Place: Lucerne Person: Bono Person: Padraig Rooney Person: Nicholas Brealey Person: Macbeths Person: F Scott Fitzgerald Person: Hemingway Person: Arthur Conan Doyle Person: Robert Louis Stevenson Person: Arthur Person: Holmes Person: Watson Person: Moriarty Person: Ian Fleming Person: James Bond Person: James Joyce Person: Nora Barnacle Person: John Addington Symonds Person: Symonds Person: Janet Person: Edward Lear Person: Bond Person: Grantley Caypor Person: Somerset Maugham Person: DH Lawrence Person: von Richthofen Person: Patricia Highsmith Person: Tom Ripley Person: Cate Blanchett Person: Hannibal Gadaffi Event: First World War Organisation: Swiss

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