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Alexander McCall Smith
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In…
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The heartwarming and hilarious new installment in the Corduroy Mansions series presents the further adventures of McCall Smith’s newest beloved character: the Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay.
Originally published: Edinburgh: Polygon, 2016.
In the last book of Alexander McCall Smith’s latest series, Professor von Igelfeld spends six months at Cambridge University on a German Scholarly Exchange Programme. Cambridge thus becomes the setting…
This beautifully packed box set will be an attractive gift for fans and those wishing to spread the McCall Smith gospel. There is no end to the pleasure that may…
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"Precious Ramotswe takes on an interesting but sensitive case and learns valuable lessons along the way..."--Provided by publisher.
In this latest installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie’s pet projects.
Precious…
"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a ... short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo introduced us to ‘Scandi noir’. Now, welcome to Alexander McCall Smith’s world of Scandi blanc …
Little, Brown/Abacus has sold more than 12 million copies of Alexander McCall Smith’s books. This is the twenty-second book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana’s only detective agency. Tears…
The delightful new installment in Smith’s bestselling series finds Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi traveling to the north of Botswana to visit a safari lodge, where there have been several…
44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 8
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial…
In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the department of sensitive crimes are on the…
Young Precious visits her Aunty Bee at a safari camp. On her first day there, a new lion arrives. But this is no average lion: Teddy is an actor-lion that…
Brand new stand alone novel from best-selling Alexander McCall Smith, based on an immensely popular short story
The delightful second installment in McCall Smith’s already hugely popular new detective series, The Sunday Philosophy Club, stars the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie–editor of the Journal of Applied Ethics –and…
Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance but her inquiries will require an even more delicate touch than usual. Mma Ramotswe and the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective…
Published in 2021 by arrangement with Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC –Title…
This time around, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is busier than usual at the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, when a strange…
The continuing story of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency–starring Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s first lady detective–finds our wily heroine searching for a young man who disappeared into the African plains…
Originally published privately, Portuguese Irregular Verbs , features the endless mishaps of the inimitable von Igelfeld, Professor in the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Regensberg in Germany…
Isabel Dalhousie is back, in the latest installment of this enchanting, bestselling series.
In this fabulous fifth installment in a bestselling series, Isabel Dalhousie is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud. Whatever the outcome, Isabel’s…
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., in Edinburgh, in 2015.
Paul Stewart has returned to Scotland to continue his successful career. His agent and girlfriend, Gloria, has arranged for him to write The Philosophy of Food in Six Easy Chapters
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Shows how W H Auden can speak to us throughout life, suggesting how, despite difficulties and change, we can celebrate understanding, acceptance, and love for others.
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* Highly original ‘detective’ stories with unique setting and characters
In this third volume of highly original ‘detective’ stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.
In this fourth volume of the bestselling series - The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, the ever-popular Precious Ramotswe - Botswana’s leading, and only, female private detective - faces a…
The eighth instalment of Alexander McCall Smith’s wonderful No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series
In bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith’s ninth tale of Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and sleuth, the victim of an important art theft appeals to her for help.
The new Botswana book from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, this is Mma Ramotswe’s fourteenth wonderful adventure.
The new Botswana book from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, this is Mma Ramotswe’s sixteenth wonderful adventure.
We catch up with the latest delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith.
Precious and Grace is a story about life at Botswana’s leading No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
The eighteenth installment from the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
A new stand-alone novel from the bestselling author of 44 Scotland Street and the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series.
The new Botswana book from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, this is Mma Ramotswe’s nineteenth wonderful adventure.
The thirteenth novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series.
The latest instalment of Alexander McCall Smith’s von Igelfeld series
The latest Isabel Dalhousie novel finds our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into…
Previously published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2012.
Three classic adventure tales from the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now together in paperback for the first time. Imagine living in the heart of Africa…
The latest novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series, which have sold over 1.7m copies
The latest installation in the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series
From Alexander McCall Smith, one of the world’s most beloved and bestselling authors, comes a marvellous collection of stories about intrigue and espionage, told in his inimitable style.
