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.
Book review: The Gilded Chalet: Off-piste in literary Switzerland
Sat, 05 Mar, 2016 - 00:00
Review Andrew Melsom

Padraig Rooney

Nicholas Brealey, £20

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Arts Film & TVBooksThe Gilded Chalet: Off-piste in literary SwitzerlandPadraig RooneyPlace: SwitzerlandPlace: Palace HotelPlace: GstaadPlace: Reichenbach FallsPlace: EtonPlace: SandhurstPlace: GenevaPlace: ZurichPlace: HarrowPlace: AlpsPlace: LucernePerson: BonoPerson: Padraig RooneyPerson: Nicholas BrealeyPerson: MacbethsPerson: F Scott FitzgeraldPerson: HemingwayPerson: Arthur Conan DoylePerson: Robert Louis StevensonPerson: ArthurPerson: HolmesPerson: WatsonPerson: MoriartyPerson: Ian FlemingPerson: James BondPerson: James JoycePerson: Nora BarnaclePerson: John Addington SymondsPerson: SymondsPerson: JanetPerson: Edward LearPerson: BondPerson: Grantley CayporPerson: Somerset MaughamPerson: DH LawrencePerson: von RichthofenPerson: Patricia HighsmithPerson: Tom RipleyPerson: Cate BlanchettPerson: Hannibal GadaffiEvent: First World WarOrganisation: Swiss
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