Juan Canales from Geneva’s from Payot bookshop at Chantepoulet brings us books with great stories from times long past:

• Travelling Heroes by Robin Lane Fox
• The Ides: Caesar’s Murder and the War for Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
• Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira

Helen Stubbs from the OffTheShelf English Bookshop brings us three great books that’ll make you think:

• The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life by Robert Rowland Smith
• Dark Matter by Juli Zeh

Diccon Bewes from the Stauffacher English Bookshop in Bern brings us three stories that center around people who desperately want to be part of something:

• The Hidden by Tobias Hill
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Daniel Nufer from A Pile of Books in Zurich brings us three great fast-paced thrillers:

• Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
• This Wicked World by Richard Lange
• The Anniversary Man by R.J. Ellory
   

Diccon Bewes from Stauffacher bookshop in Bern is back with three inspired travel writing books:

• Eat, Pray, Love by Elisabeth Gilbert
• Where Underpants Come From by Joe Bennett
• The Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux

Juan Canales from Geneva’s from Payot bookshop at Chantepoulet brings us three great picks by women writers:

• Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
• A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates
• An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

Matthew Wake from Books Books Books in Lausanne brings us this weeks picks:

• A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
• The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs
• Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin

Helen Stubbs from OffTheShelf English bookshop in Geneva joins us this week with these picks:

• The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
• The Best Camera Is the One That’s with You by Chase Jarvis
• Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing by Peter Silverton

Diccon Bewes from Stauffacher’s English bookshiop in Bern brings us novels from three first-time authors to kick off the decade:

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• The Good Thief by Hanna Tinti

Children’s book afficianado Anna Sawyer at Books Books Books Lausanne is here this week with three books your children shouldn’t miss:

• The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Gris Grimly
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• A Barbecue for Charlotte by Marc Tetro