Books written by Alex Capus

  • Bitte streicheln Sie hier! Sonderausgabe.

    Bitte streicheln Sie hier! Sonderausgabe.

  • Eduard Spelterini - photographs of a pioneer balloonist

    Contextualized by essays that explore both Spelterini’s life and his photographic work, the photographs featured in this volume capture the heady mix of danger and discovery that defined the early years of international air travel when ...

  • A Matter of Time

    A little known backwater of the history of the Great War is vividly rendered by a great story-teller - the central characters and events of this book are based on fact, but their surroundings and experiences are richly drawn from the author ...

  • Life is Good

    This new novel by Alex Capus is a hymn to trust, friendship and life’s small pleasures. Told with his trademark humor, Life is Good is a novel about finding contentment in rootedness as the world speeds up.

  • Leon and Louise

    Summer 1918.

  • Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island

    Banfield, M A, The Health Biographies of Alexander Leeper, Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Stevenson (Moodbury, South Australia: 2001). ... Cairney, John, The Quest for Robert Louis Stevenson (Edinburgh: 2004).

  • Skidoo: A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West

    Hootch did so. He went back to the Gold Seal Saloon and put his head down. When he awoke three hours later, however, he had a headache and was thirsty. And because he still had no liquor and no money, he returned to the General Trading ...

  • A Price to Pay

    A Price to Pay, the fourth of Capus’s novels to be published in English, tells the interwoven stories of three disparate figures from interwar Switzerland: pacifist Felix Bloch, who ends up working on the Manhattan Project; Laura ...

  • Mein Nachbar Urs: Geschichten aus der Kleinstadt

    17 kurze äGeschichten aus der Kleinstadtä von Bestsellerautor A. Capus, der seine Zeit am liebsten in seinem beschaulichen Heimatort Olten verbringt.