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Alexander McCall Smith
‘That,’ said Mr Borthwick, ‘was the best hamburger I’ve ever tasted!’ Joe has just created the yummiest, juciest, most delicious hamburger ever - and his friend Mr Borthwick wants to…
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This newest entry in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series continues the adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s leading, and only, female private detective.
The new Botswana book from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, this is Mma Ramotswe’s nineteenth wonderful adventure.
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The next charming and heartwarming installment in the NO.1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY series, from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith. This is Mma Ramotswe’s twentieth wonderful adventure.
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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-first book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.
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.
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The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
The new Botswana book from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, this is Mma Ramotswe’s sixteenth wonderful adventure.
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe-with help from…
National treasure Alexander McCall Smith joins up-and-coming illustrator Zoe Persico in this utterly adorable story of family, acceptance and difference. Part of Barrington Stoke’s picture book range for all the…
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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 London-based series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street
The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street
The charming and entertaining new 44 Scotland Street novel from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith.
Precious Ramotswe has opened Botswana’s first and only detective agency staffed by women. Smith traverses this landscape with an air of simplicity, euphony, and harmony, never patronizing Precious and never…
* The third in the Sunday Philosophy Club series, starring amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie
One of Phuti Radiphuti’s apprentices has gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi to…
Years before the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency was established, a young Precious Ramotswe thought she might like to be a detective. When a piece of cake goes missing, a…
The brilliant new novel in the 44 Scotland Street series, first serialised in the Daily Telegraph
The three hilarious von Igelfeld novels - Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and The Villa of Reduced Circumstances - available for the first time in one volume.
* The hilarious new Von Igelfeld novel - the follow-up to The 21/2 Pillars of Wisdom.
* The new Isabel Dalhousie novel
** ‘The evocation of war-torn England, with its palpable mood of defiance, determination and survival, is beautifully caught’ SCOTSMAN
* The wonderful new Isabel Dalhousie novel – out now in paperback
Mma Ramotswe’s twelfth adventure
Second novel in he new London-based series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street
A beautiful, touching and often heart-breaking standalone novel about love and friendship from Alexander McCall Smith, bestselling author of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
The fourth novel in the hugely popular Sunday Philosophy Club series
The tenth wonderful story in Alexander McCall Smith’s much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series.
The third novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s new DETECTIVE VARG series…
The twenty-fourth book in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dilemma in the hopes of…
Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2018.
In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmoe, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known…
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette UK company, London, in 2021 –Copyright page.
The latest, delectably witty installment of Alexander McCall Smith’s sumptuous 44 Scotland Street series.
For the residents of 44 Scotland Street, life in Edinburgh’s intriguing New Town is a thing…
In this latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's cherished No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, two confounding cases compete for Mma Ramotswe's attention-and she may need to call in back…
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe's cleverness…
The latest installment in the delightful 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents up to their usual hilarious hijinks.
In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of…
Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to the Austen classic, Emma. ‘It’s comfort reading at its most soothing’ Independent
Fans will welcome the second installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series. Full of McCall Smith’s gentle humor and sympathy for his characters, Espresso Tales is also an affectionate…
From the bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series comesthe third book in his popular 44 Scotland Street series.
The fourth charming installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series continues the story of the ever-talented, ever-six-year-old Bertie. 38 illustrations.
*The fifth in the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series *Highly original ‘detective’ stories with unique setting and characters for people who are fed up with aggressive literature which dwells on…
* Highly original ‘detective’ stories with unique setting and characters featuring Mma Ramotswe and her No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
