This section gives details of Geneva Writers who have had books published. The range of writing covered is broad, including fiction (novels, children’s stories), memoir, autobiography, collections of short stories, essays, poetry and non fiction. To discover where to buy any of the member’s books, click on the relevant book cover illustration.
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| ALICE BAUDAT‘s first novel The Wooden Bowl is contemporary fiction. Discover how a simple wooden bowl changes the routine life of an ordinary woman. Learn about her cookies, their secret and how it works. Read a story of a dream come true. Available at your favorite bookstore. www.alicebaudat.com |  |
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The Psychodynamics of Poetry : Poetic Virtuality and Oedipal Sublimation in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Paul Valéry, by EMILY BILMAN, deals with narcissistic trauma and its non-resolution in the poetic text. She has also written La Rivière de Soi, a journey of self-exploration and an initiation to one’s inner perceptions through the metaphor of a river. Contact Emily to order. |
| JACQUELINE COOPER, born Alexandria. Cocktails and Camels, Tales From Alexandria, Scribbles, The Crazy Cat Saloon, You Never Know-Moments. Author/illustrator of four bilingual picture books: Toby And The Escalade, Kevin And The Escalade Race, William Tell, Cat Day. Member of P.E.N., and Society of Women Writers (UK). Contact her here |  |
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| ZEKI ERGAS’s collection of essays In Search of a Better World has been published in Budapest, and is also available at Off The Shelf bookshop in Geneva. Or contact Zeki, here, if you wish to buy a copy direct. A review of this book can be read on the web site of Share The World’s Resources. |
| MAVIS GUINARD‘s Made in Switzerland/Petit Guide de la Suisse Insolite, features that first appeared in the International Herald Tribune, newly updated with French translation. For all curious about Swiss myths, trains, navy, cleanliness, dinosaurs, Frankenstein’s birthplace or Sherlock Holmes last hideout. At Editions Metropolis, Geneva and local bookstores. www.editionsmetropolis.com |
| DINAH LEE KÜNG, author of A Visit from Voltaire, gives regular updates on PEN’s Honorary Prisoners on her website. |
| GAIL MANGOLD-VINE‘s work as a journalist is published worldwide. Her first book, Touring Geneva Wine Country, appeared in 2004. A member of the Geneva Writers’ Group since its inception, Gail is also a member of International PEN. For more information about Gail and her work, go to cfscommunication. |
| JOY MANNE has published six books, among them Family Constellations examines family as an energy field, explains how this field influences our lives, and what we can do to heal the hurt we’ve inherited through it. Conscious Breathing explains the transpersonal experiences that are so frequent and normal in Breathwork in terms of a shamanic paradigm. |  |
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| ALAN MCCLUSKEY’S first two published novels, The Reaches and The Keeper’s Daughter, are part of a contemporary fantasy series called The Storyteller’s Quest. For more information visit http://secret-paths.com/. |
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| DANIELA I. NORRIS is an ex-diplomat turned writer. She has lived, worked and published short stories and articles in three continents. The Year Spring Turned into Winter, a collection of short stories, was published in 2008. Crossing Qalandiya: Exchanges Across the Israeli-Palestinian Divide, co-authored with Shireen Anabtawi, was published in May 2010. Daniela currently resides near Geneva, and is working on a series of political thrillers. www.danielanorris.com |
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SYLVIA PETTER, an Australian now based in Vienna, continues to maintain active links with the Geneva Writers’ Group. She is author of two collections of short stories – The Past Present and Back Burning. www.sylviapetter.com |
| Blowing Feathers is a memoir in the voice of Karen Hansen, mother of JO ANN HANSEN RASCH. It was inspired by diaries and stories written on hundreds of bits of paper found after her mother’s death in 2000. Jo Ann’s book is for sale on Amazon, and in English-Language bookshops in Switzerland. Transition is a poetry collection; a memoir in poetic form, published by Editions du Madrier, Switzerland. |
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| ALISTAIR SCOTT – writer and photographer – has travelled widely, from the Australian desert and ice floes of the Arctic, to the Zambian ‘bundu’. He writes articles, poems and books on photography. His latest book is a non-technical guide to Photography – part of the ‘Greatest Guides’ series. |  |
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PAUL SMITH (writing as Peter Martins) escaped to Basel from the Thames Valley in 1980. As a singer-songwriter Paul has released three CDs. Ram, is his first novel — Devon: a crazy, hospitalised father and his herd of sick but curiously social sheep; a depressive luckless daughter; an estranged son hiding out in Switzerland…Ram is available direct from Paul | ||
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PETER ST JOHN DAWE has written six books in the ‘Gang’ series. Three are published. First, Gang Territory, in which a lad, evacuated in 1940 from a London orphanage, makes his way through the minefields of village gangs. Gang Warfare is a stand-alone sequel, followed by Gang Rivalry. Three others await publication. Further details are on Peter’s website. |  |
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SOPHIA TELLEN in both Walking Into Moments and Getting Through Customs writes about the possibilities for creative transformation through change and transitions. She explores authentic life experience and hopes to inspire her readers to tell their own stories in turn. Promenades dans l’instant présent, published by Xenia with superb color illustrations, is the French translation of Walking Into Moments. http://www.editions-xenia.com Contact: sophia.tellen@zoho.com |  |
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CAROLINE THONGER is author of The Banker’s Daughter, the true story of Eva Steinthal, born in Berlin amid untold wealth at the end of the nineteenth century. She survives the First World War but barely escapes the Holocaust under Hitler’s regime. Exiled to Peru and parted from everything she once held dear, how will Eva survive on her own in an alien land?For further information and to buy the book, contact Caroline. | ||
| SUSAN TIBERGHIEN‘s fourth book, One Year to a Writing Life, was published by Marlowe in September 2007. Her other books, essays, stories are noted on her website, as well as future workshops.She is grateful to all those who continue to encourage her (GWG, IWWG, and her agent Susan Schulman). |  |
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SHIZUE TOMODA has written Sachiko, a novel exploring the life and times of a young Japanese woman who escapes the stifling culture in Japan for a life of promise in the United States, and Posted in Colombo, a memoir/study by a former director of ILO’s Colombo office that deciphers the tragic civil war, the complex ethnic composition, and social and labour issues of vulnerable women workers in Sri Lanka – a story of pain, toils and agony, but also of light. | |
| LIVIA VARJU was on Editorial Board of three journals, started HCR Dialogue as Editor-in-Chief. Articles, humour, poems, translations in journals, anthologies, Internet. Gold medal for poetry translations. Wrote Swissericks – humorous verses about Switzerland, edited Fraud, Waste and Abuse, about the UN. Is the representative of Universal Alliance. |  |
