Alexander McCall Smith

44 Scotland Street 07: Bertie Plays The Blues
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349000329
RRP: $19.99

Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are somewhat lost due to sleep deprivation and the difficulties of telling their brood apart. Angus and Domenica are to marry and Domenica has ambitious and dist...

Corduroy Mansion 03: A Conspiracy Of Friends
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349123851
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The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street. Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico is an oasis of old-fashioned civilisation, its inhabitants considerate and peace-loving. But beneath the polite exterior seismic change is stirring. Barbara Ragg makes an eye-popping discovery about her stolid Scottish suitor&...

Corduroy Mansions
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349122397
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Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: a temple of Arts and Crafts architecture, with comforting, weathered brickwork and frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to a delightfully eccentric cast of Londoners. In the top flat lives William, with a faithful ex-vegetarian dog named Freddie de la Hay and a freeloading son who he hopes will soon fly the nest. Four lively young women share the fi...

Corduroy Mansions 02: Dog Who Came in From the Cold
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349123219
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In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William French and his faithful canine Freddie are recruited to the service of MI6 by a beguiling lady operative, William's neighbour Caroline finds her suitor James mysteriously lacking, and Barbara Ragg is tempted to the Highlands by blossoming romance. Meanwhile sage psychiatr...

Dream Angus: The Celtic God Of Dreams
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351143
RRP: $19.95

Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams - you may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is also the god of love, youth and beauty. Divine Angus is adored by all, but fated to love only the beautiful Caer. Mesmerically weaving together the tales of the Celtic Eros and his contemporary a...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 01
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349116754
RRP: $19.99

Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side, not to mention Mr JLB Ma...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 02: Tears Of The Giraffe
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349116655
RRP: $19.99

Following on from the brilliant 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency', 'Tears Of The Giraffe' charts the further adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. It's going to take all her intuition and eminent sensibility for Precious to crack her hardest case yet: the decade-old disappearance of an American on the edge of the K...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 03: Morality for Beautiful Girls
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349117003
RRP: $19.99

Follows 'Tears Of The Giraffe'. In this third volume of 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective' series, the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work. With her detective agency in financial difficulty, Mme Ramotswe takes the hard decision to share offices with her husband-to-be, Mr JLB Matekoni. But even though the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors could do wi...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 04: The Kalahari Typing School For Men
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349117041
RRP: $19.99

"Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent" reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life?...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 05: The Full Cupboard of Life
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349117256
RRP: $19.99

Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr JLB Matekoni at the end of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, remains unmarried. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fianc . For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening request made of him by Mma Potokwani, pushy matron of the Orphan Farm. Mma Ramotswe hers...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 06: In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349117423
RRP: $19.99

Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is now married to Mr JLB Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Unfortunately, her attempts to help are interrupted by a close encounter between her tiny white va...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 07: Blue Shoes and Happiness
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349117720
RRP: $19.99

Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr JLB Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has she settled her traditionally built person into the married state than she finds ...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 08: The Good Husband Of Zebra Drive
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349117737
RRP: $19.99

The eighth instalment of Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency there are the usual number of cases to b...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 09: The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349119953
RRP: $19.99

It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours. While she ponders the identity of the letter-writer Mma Ramotswe has a further set of problems to solve, both professional a...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 10: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349119977
RRP: $19.99

It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswe's newest client is the big-shot owner of the ailing Kalahari Swoopers, that one thing lady detectives know very little about is football. And when the glamorous Violet Sephotho sets her sight...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 11: The Double Comfort Safari Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349119991
RRP: $19.99

Mma Ramotswe's wonderful eleventh novel. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana s Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife, majestic grasslands and sparkling water. However, it is also home to rival safari operat...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 12: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349123134
RRP: $19.99

Mma Ramotswe's twelfth adventure. As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong, has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles of Private Detection: never lie to the client. App...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 13: The Limpopo Academy Of Private Detection
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781408702604
RRP: $34.99

Mma Ramotswe's thirteenth adventure published in hardback. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have always relied on the advice of the classic guide to their trade, The Principles of Private Detection. But who is the eminent author, Mr Clovis Andersen and what if he were to come to Botswana? That seems a very unlikely possibility and yet When Mr Andersen visits Botswana on holiday, he is delighted ...

Unusual Uses for Olive Oil
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316027540
RRP: $32.99

The hilarious new Von Igelfeld novel - the follow-up to THE 2 PILLARS OF WISDOM. Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of Portuguese Irregular Verbs and pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Un...

The Charming Quirks of Others
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349123127
RRP: $22.99

As well as its advantages, there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every Saturday night ears burn at dinner parties across the city, and anyone requiring the investigative abilities of a philosophical soul knows where to find her. Jillian McKinlay -- wife of a trustee of an illustrious school -- is the latest petitioner; she asks Isabel to look...

The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781408703397
RRP: $45.00

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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408703403
RRP: $29.99

As the editor of an applied ethics journal, Isabel Dalhousie is usually tucked away in her editorial office, in the comfortable Edinburgh house she shares with her fiance and their young son, and does not often meet many fellow philosophers. But while helping in the delicatessen owned by her niece, Cat, she meets Jane Cooper, an Australian philosopher who is spending a sabbatical in Scotland. Isab...

44 Scotland Street 06: The Importance of Being Seven
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349123165
RRP: $22.99

Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence. Matthew and Elspeth receive startling - and expensive - news on a visit to the Infirmary, Angus and Domenica are contemplating an Italian m nage a trois, and even Big Lou is overheard discussing cosmetic surgery. But when Bertie Po...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 12: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781408702581
RRP: $34.99

The twelfth novel in the wonderful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, from master storyteller Alexander McCall Smith. The day of Mma Makutsi s long-awaited wedding to her beloved Phuti Radiphuti, proprietor of the Double Comfort Furniture Shop, is finally approaching. But that scheming minx Violet Sephotho has developed political ambitions which could jeopardise not only the wedding prepa...

The Lost Art of Gratitude
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349120546
RRP: $24.99

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is drawn into a murky world of financial concealment. Minty is not the only high-flier in Isabel's ...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 01
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349120997
RRP: $19.99

Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side, not to mention Mr J. L. B...

Comfort of Saturdays
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349120553
RRP: $24.99

Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel ethics are not theoretical at all, but an everyday matter of life and death. As she attempts to unravel the...

La's Orchestra Saves the World
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349122052
RRP: $22.99

August Witte is firmly against having children. But after seven years of marriage, his wife is delighted when she realises she is unexpectedly pregnant. August is terrified, recognising he never learned the first thing about being a good parent from his father London. A widower since August was a toddler, London has always valued the game of golf - a sport August has never had any talent for - mor...

44 Scotlkand Street 05: Unbearable Lightness of Scones
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349121147
RRP: $22.99

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that...

Careful Use of Compliments
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349118062
RRP: $24.99

The fourth novel in the hugely popular Sunday Philosophy Club series. For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And with the arrival of baby Charlie, not to mention a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, fourteen years her junior, Isabel enters deeper and rougher waters. Late...

44 Scotland Street 04: The World According To Bertie
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349120539
RRP: $19.99

The fourth warm, witty and utterly enchanting instalment from 44 Scotland Street Long-suffering child genius Bertie Pollock has much to contend with in the latest instalment of life at 44 Scotland Street, not least the birth of his brother Ulysses. Bertie had hoped that caring for a new baby would command all of his mother's attention, but he quickly sees that his dream of being left to his ...

The Girl Who Married A Lion
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781841956299
RRP: $23.95

How can a girl possibly have married a lion? How can a man have a tress growing out of his head? And how can a woman have children made of wax? The stories in this collection make these questions seem simple, everyday ones - then deftly supplies simple, everyday answers. Surprising and humorous, these beautifully rendered tales demonstrate McCall Smith's renowned storytelling skills....

The Right Attitude To Rain
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349118055
RRP: $24.99

The third in 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' series, starring amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie. The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie is a connoisseur of intimate moral issues: she edits a philosophical journal ...

44 Scotland Street 01: 44 Scotland Street
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349118970
RRP: $22.99

The story revolves around the comings and goings at No 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, who is maki...

44 Scotland Street 03: Love Over Scotland
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349119717
RRP: $19.99

The third in the series of Alexander McCall Smith's daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street 'Love Over Scotland' is the third in this series and revolves around the many colourful characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness: the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother and, most...

Folk Tales From Africa Volume 2: The Baboons Who Went This Way and That
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781841957722
RRP: $14.95

TALES THAT SPEAK FROM THE AFRICAN HEART A man with a tree growing out of his head? A woman with children made of wax? A bird that can be milked? Let Alexander McCall Smith once again take you to a land where the bizarre is everyday and magic is real, with more illustrated stories from The Girl Who Married A Lion, his celebration of African folktales. ...

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349118048
RRP: $24.99

Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is... well, perhaps a bit more challenging - particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a younger man who should have married her niece, Cat. J...

The Sunday Philosophy Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349118697
RRP: $24.99

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dish...

44 Scotland Street 02: Espresso Tales
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349119700
RRP: $22.99

In 'Espresso Tales', Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a new career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat MacGregor, set up by m...

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316727808
RRP: $49.99

In this second novel in the 'Sunday Philosophy Club', Isabel Dalhousie's niece, Cat (she of the unsuitable boyfriends) is invited to a wedding in Italy. This means that Isabel is left in charge of Cat's delicatessen - a task to which the redoubtable moral philosopher proves more than equal. She is intrigued by the customers, of course, given her irrepressible tendency to take an in...

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316729772
RRP: $29.99

In this second novel in the 'Sunday Philosophy Club', Isabel Dalhousie's niece, Cat (she of the unsuitable boyfriends) is invited to a wedding in Italy. This means that Isabel is left in charge of Cat's delicatessen - a task to which the redoubtable moral philosopher proves more than equal. She is intrigued by the customers, of course, given her irrepressible tendency to take an in...

Heavenly Date And Other Flirtations
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781841954271
RRP: $23.95

From the creator of 'The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency' comes a medley of perverse couplings, casual dates and romantic encounters: hilarious tales that will also sadden, inspire and surprise. McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves - entanglements...

The 2 1/2 Pillars Of Wisdom
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349118505
RRP: $22.99

Welcome to the extraordinary world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, an unnaturally tall and memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and Inspector Clouseau's hapless gaucherie. Von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, which he shares with his equally tall and equally rid...

The Dog Who Came in from the Cold
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307739445
RRP: $19.95

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The Great Cake Mystery
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307743893
RRP: $9.95

Considering a future as a detective years before the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is established, 8-year-old Precious Ramotswe investigates the disappearance of a piece of cake when she believes that a young boy has been wrongly accused of stealing it as well as perpetrating a series of playground thefts, in a young reader's spin-off of the popular adult mystery series. Simultaneous....

The Great Cake Mystery
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307949448
RRP: $16.95

Considering a future as a detective years before the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is established, 8-year-old Precious Ramotswe investigates the disappearance of a piece of cake when she believes that a young boy has been wrongly accused of stealing it as well as perpetrating a series of playground thefts, in a young reader's spin-off of the popular adult mystery series. Simultaneous....

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307378408
RRP: $32.95

The formidable talents of Precious Ramotswe are put to the test in the face of a mysterious disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school, assistant Grace Makutsi's early marital adjustments and the appearance of the No. 1 Ladies' hero detective. By the best-selling author of the Isabel Dalhousie series. 200,000 first printing....

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307472984
RRP: $19.95

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Morality for Beautiful Girls
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739378311
RRP: $25.95

Sleuth Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of a Botswana detective agency, and her assistant, Mma Makutsi, investigate two very different cases--the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important government official and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest. (mystery & detective). By the author of Tears of a Giraffe....

The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739378328
RRP: $25.95

Now that the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is firmly established, founder Precious Ramotswe faces new challenges at home and at work--from problems with her adopted son, to an assistant who dreams of opening a Kalahari Typing School for Men, to a sexist rival who is opening a Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency across town. (mystery & detective)....

The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307379184
RRP: $32.95

Isabel reluctantly agrees to help a visiting Australian philosopher find her biological father, but the case is complicated by her housekeeper's questionable financial advisor and ongoing doubts about her engagement to Jamie....

The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739378373
RRP: $32.95

Isabel reluctantly agrees to help a visiting Australian philosopher find her biological father, but the case is complicated by her housekeeper's questionable financial advisor and ongoing doubts about her engagement to Jamie....

The Charming Quirks of Others
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307739391
RRP: $18.95

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739378298
RRP: $25.95

Working in Gaborone, Botswana, sleuth Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week. (mystery & detective)....

Tears of the Giraffe
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739378304
RRP: $25.95

The story of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency continues as irrepressible sleuth Precious Ramotswe searches for a young man who vanished many years ago on the African plains, while dealing with her engagement to Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, sudden and unexpected motherhood, and her recently promoted new assistant. (mystery & detective)....

The Dog Who Came in from the Cold
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307379733
RRP: $32.95

Terence Moongrove's estate is turned upside down by the cosmological experiments of two New Age operators, while literary agent Barbara Ragg takes on a companion of the Abominable Snowman and Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay is recruited by MI6....

Corduroy Mansions
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307476500
RRP: $19.95

While a middle-aged wine merchant tries to emancipate his reluctant adult son from their crumbling Pimlico home, a hated Parliament member incites the disgust of his biography-writing mother and long-suffering literary agent girlfriend....

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410435132
RRP: $65.95

Hoping to reclaim a van that was featured in a possible prophetic dream, Precious and Grace find themselves helping an apprentice of Phuti Radiphuti, investigating a cattle poisoning, and considering Grace's possible marriage to Phuti....

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307378392
RRP: $32.95

Hoping to reclaim a van that was featured in a possible prophetic dream, Precious and Grace find themselves helping an apprentice of Phuti Radiphuti, investigating a cattle poisoning, and considering Grace's possible marriage to Phuti....

The Double Comfort Safari Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277480
RRP: $18.95

Traveling to northern Botswana where they are impressed by the natural beauty of the Okavango Delta, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi visit a safari lodge where they encounter discontented locals and struggle with untimely wedding issues. Reprint. A best-selling novel....

La's Orchestra Saves the World
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307473042
RRP: $19.95

Divorc ee Lavender attempts to flee World War II London and organize an amateur orchestra that includes a talented Polish refugee who rekindles long-buried feelings....

The Charming Quirks of Others
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307379177
RRP: $32.95

Investigating allegations against a headmaster candidate for her alma mater, Isabel uncovers surprising truths that hit close to home and unwittingly upsets the father of her young son. By the best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. 75,000 first printing....

The Lost Art of Gratitude
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307387080
RRP: $18.95

Encountering high-flying financier Minty Auchterlonie while attending a birthday party, Isabel learns of Minty's complicated monetary troubles and wonders if the ambitious woman is perpetuating a fraud....

The Double Comfort Safari Club
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375424502
RRP: $32.95

Traveling to northern Botswana where they are impressed by the natural beauty of the Okavango Delta, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi visit a safari lodge where they encounter discontented locals and struggle with untimely wedding issues....

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277473
RRP: $18.95

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is hired to explain the unexpected losing streak of a local football club, the Kalahari Swoopers, and Mma Precious Ramotswe is on the case, in the 10th installment in a series that inspired the HBO show. Reprint. A best-selling novel. TV tie-in....

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307454706
RRP: $19.95

While precocious six-year-old Bertie seeks to escape his overbearing mother by joining the Cub Scouts, Matthew resolves to meet the challenges of married life and Cyril succumbs to romantic temptation....

La's Orchestra Saves the World
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307378385
RRP: $30.95

A stand-alone work by the author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series finds divorcee Lavender fleeing World War II London and organizing an amateur orchestra that includes a talented Polish refugee who rekindles long-buried feelings....

The Lost Art of Gratitude
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375425141
RRP: $30.95

Encountering high-flying financier Minty Auchterlonie while attending a birthday party, Isabel learns of Minty's complicated monetary troubles and wonders if the ambitious woman is perpetuating a fraud....

The Lost Art of Gratitude
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739328637
RRP: $30.95

Encountering high-flying financier Minty Auchterlonie while attending a birthday party, Isabel learns of Minty's complicated monetary troubles and wonders if the ambitious woman is perpetuating a fraud....

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307387073
RRP: $18.95

The fifth installment of the best-selling sleuth series features a case involving a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud after a patient dies in a tragic accident. Reprint....

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375424496
RRP: $30.95

Precious Ramotswe tries to recover her trusty white van after her husband sells it and replaces it with a characterless modern vehicle, while The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency tries to discover if a local football team's games are fixed....

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307456625
RRP: $10.95

Sleuth Precious Ramotswe, who works in Gaborone, Botswana, investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week....

The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277466
RRP: $18.95

Precious Ramotswe heads to a Botswana game preserve to investigate the death of an elderly American tourist, while at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, Mma Ramotswe's husband suddenly decides to mortgage the garage. Reprint....

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307456632
RRP: $18.95

Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week....

Blue Shoes and Happiness/The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739328309
RRP: $36.95

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Full Cupboard of Life/ in the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739328293
RRP: $36.95

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The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375425134
RRP: $30.95

Isabel Dalhousie comes to the aid of a renowned, much respected doctor whose reputation is at stake following the death of a patient because of allegations of scientific fraud in respect to a newly marketed drug. 125,000 first printing....

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739328125
RRP: $28.95

Isabel Dalhousie comes to the aid of a renowned, much respected doctor whose reputation is at stake following the death of a patient because of allegations of scientific fraud in respect to a newly marketed drug. (Mystery & Detective)...

The Careful Use of Compliments
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400077120
RRP: $18.95

In addition to being the nosiest and most sypathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, Isabel is now a mother. Charlies, her newborn son, presents her with a myriad wonders of a new life, and doting father Jamie presents her with an intriguing proposal: marriage. In the midst of all this, she receives a disturbing letter announcing that she has been ousted as editor of the Review of Applied Ethi...

The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375424489
RRP: $29.95

Precious Ramotswe heads to a Botswana game preserve to investigate the death of an elderly American tourist, while at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, Mma Ramotswe's husband suddenly decides to mortgage the garage....

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400075720
RRP: $18.95

Things go badly awry for Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni when he sets out to do something special for their adopted daughter, Motholeli, and it is up to his wife, Mma Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, to extricate him from his problems. Reprint. 200,000 first printing....

The Careful Use of Compliments
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375423017
RRP: $28.95

Isabel Dalhousie attends an art auction and finds a painting attributed to a now-deceased artist that features a person whom the artist could only have encountered after his supposed death, meaning that either the artwork is a forgery or the artist could still be alive....

Careful Use of Compliments
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780739327463
RRP: $32.95

Isabel Dalhousie attends an art auction and finds a painting attributed to a now-deceased artist that features a person whom the artist could only have encountered after his supposed death, meaning that either the artwork is a forgery or the artist could still be alive....

Dream Angus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847670151
RRP: $16.95

In a retelling of an ancient Celtic myth about Angus, the god of love, youth, and beauty, and a trickster who turns one's romantic dreams upside down, five young men named Angus parallel the god's story as they search for true love....

The Right Attitude to Rain
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400077113
RRP: $18.95

When friends from Dallas introduce her to Tom Bruce, a Texas tycoon, Isabel Dalhousie turns sleuth to investigate Tom's young fianc e, who may be more interested in Tom's money than in Tom, as well as her niece Cat's new beau, whom Isabel suspects is the ultimate mama's boy, a situation complicated by Tom's apparent growing interest in Isabel. Reprint. 125,000 first printing....

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375422737
RRP: $28.95

Things go badly awry for Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni when he sets out to do something special for their adopted daughter, Motholeli, and it is up to his wife, Mma Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, to extricate him from his problems. 300,000 first printing....

Blue Shoes and Happiness
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400075713
RRP: $18.95

Precious Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, investigate local advice columnist Aunty Emang, who may be linked to trouble at a local medical clinic and the cobra that somehow ended up in Precious's office....

The Right Attitude to Rain
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375423000
RRP: $28.95

When friends from Dallas introduce her to Tom Bruce, a Texas tycoon, Isabel Dalhousie turns sleuth to investigate Tom's young fianc ee, who may be more interested in Tom's money than in Tom....

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400077106
RRP: $18.95

Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him....

Espresso Tales
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307275974
RRP: $19.95

The sequel to 44 Scotland Street continues its study of the lives of the denizens of the converted Edinburgh townhouse, as young Bertie prepares for his first day of kindergarten, former surveyor Bruce contemplates a new career as a wine merchant, and Pat embarks on a new life at the university and a new romance thanks to her worldly wise neighbor, Domenica. Original. 125,000 first printing....

Blue Shoes and Happiness
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375422720
RRP: $28.95

Precious Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, investigate local advice columnist Aunty Emang, who may be linked to trouble at a local medical clinic and the cobra that somehow ended up in Precious's office....

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400075706
RRP: $18.95

Precious Ramotswe is challenged by a strange intruder at her home, the appearance in her yard of a mysterious pumpkin, troubles at her husband's motorworks, and a vistor who forces her to confront a painful secret from her past....

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375423871
RRP: $28.95

Working in Gaborone, Botswana, sleuth Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week. Originally in paperback. 25,000 first printing....

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Boxed Set
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307261588
RRP: $92.95

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Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375422997
RRP: $28.95

Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him....

The Sunday Philosophy Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400077090
RRP: $18.95

The editor of The Review of Applied Ethics and an irrepressibly curious lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his brokerage firm, in the first in a new series by the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 300,000 first printing....

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375422713
RRP: $25.95

Precious Ramotswe finds herself overburdened at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and faces more complications when she finds a strange intruder in her house and a mysterious pumpkin in her yard....

The Full Cupboard of Life
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400031818
RRP: $18.95

Worrying about her upcoming marriage, Precious Ramotswe is confronted by the challenges of running her No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and an investigation into the would-be suitors of a wealthy woman to determine if any are fortune hunters....

The Girl Who Married a Lion
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375423123
RRP: $28.95

The best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency brings together a treasury of traditional African folktales and lore from the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe and the Setswana people of Botswana, including "Milk Bird," "Why Elephant and Hyena Live Far from People," and other fables. 25,000 first printing....

Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781841955872
RRP: $16.95

Journeying from Portugal, to Australia, to southern Africa and other exotic settings, this irrepressible collection of short fiction by the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency explores a wide range of romantic encounters, in all their diverse forms. Reprint. 25,000 first printing....

The Sunday Philosophy Club
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375422980
RRP: $25.95

The editor of The Review of Applied Ethics and an irrepressibly curious lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his brokerage firm, in the first in a new series by the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. 100,000 first printing....

The Sunday Philosophy Club
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375434266
RRP: $28.95

The editor of The Review of Applied Ethics and an irrepressibly curious lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his brokerage firm, in the first in a new series by the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. (Mystery)...

The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400031801
RRP: $18.95

Now that the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is firmly established, founder Precious Ramotswe faces new challenges at home and at work--from problems with her adopted son, to an assistant who dreams of opening a Kalahari Typing School for Men, to a sexist rival who is opening a Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency across town. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 250,000 first printing....

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679789758
RRP: $54.95

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The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375422171
RRP: $29.95

Now that the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is firmly established, founder Precious Ramotswe faces new challenges at home and at work--from problems with her adopted son, to an assistant who dreams of opening a Kalahari Typing School for Men, to a sexist rival who is opening a Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency across town. 50,000 first printing....

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400034772
RRP: $19.95

Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week....

Morality for Beautiful Girls
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400031368
RRP: $18.95

Sleuth Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of a Botswana detective agency, and her assistant, Mma Makutsi, investigate two very different cases--the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important government official and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest. By the author of Tearrs of the Giraffe. Reprint. 25,000 first printing....

Tears of the Giraffe
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400031351
RRP: $19.95

The story of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency continues as irrepressible sleuth Precious Ramotswe searches for a young man who vanished many years ago on the African plains, while dealing with her engagement to Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, sudden and unexpected motherhood, and her recently promoted new assistant. Reprint. 12,500 first printing....

La's Orchestra Saves the World
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307398116
RRP: $64.95

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La's Orchestra Saves the World
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410420602
RRP: $65.95

It is 1939. Lavender--La to her friends--decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered marriage. Settling in as small town, she organizes an amateur orchestra from the village and the local RAF base and falls in love with one of her prized recruits....

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594133947
RRP: $21.95

Precious Ramotswe tries to recover her trusty white van after her husband sells it and replaces it with a characterless modern vehicle, while The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency tries to discover if a local football team's games are fixed....

The Double Comfort Safari Club
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410425751
RRP: $63.95

Traveling to northern Botswana where they are impressed by the natural beauty of the Okavango Delta, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi visit a safari lodge where they encounter discontented locals and struggle with untimely wedding issues....

The Double Comfort Safari Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594134333
RRP: $21.95

Traveling to northern Botswana where they are impressed by the natural beauty of the Okavango Delta, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi visit a safari lodge where they encounter discontented locals and struggle with untimely wedding issues. (mystery & detective)....

The Lost Art of Gratitude
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307397010
RRP: $64.95

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The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594133183
RRP: $20.95

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Akimbo And The Snakes
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780747586104

A thrilling story of Africa, snakes and a dangerous mission, from the bestselling author of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Akimbo always looks forward to Uncle Peter's visits, because Uncle Peter has a very exciting job: he runs a snake park! Akimbo loves his life in Africa. He loves living in the great game reserve where his father is ranger. He is able to see all sorts of won...

Charming Quirks Of Others
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408702574

Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and curious observer of the behaviour of her fellow man, is approached by a friend at a local boarding school that is planning to appoint a new headmaster; an anonymous letter has arrived suggesting that one of the shortlisted candidates has a compromising past. But which one is it? Isabel is once again drawn into an investigation, and finds herself explorin...

Comfort of Saturdays
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408700662

More delightful philosophical musings from Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh-based philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel...

Dream Angus: Text Myth Series
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781921145407

'Dream Angus' is based on the myth of the Celtic god Angus who carries dreams to people while they sleep. If he's in the right mood, divine Angus might grant you sight of your true love in a dream; you might even fall in love with - but he'll never love you back. He's too busy making mischief - stealing the palace of the gods from his father, turning his enemies into pigs, etc...

Heavenly Date & Other Stories
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780862415358

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Lost Art of Gratitude
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408700648

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is drawn into a murky world of financial concealment. Minty is not the only high-flier in Isabel's ...

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781597229425

Precious Ramotswe tries to recover her trusty white van after her husband sells it and replaces it with a characterless modern vehicle, while The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency tries to discover if a local football team's games are fixed....

The Careful Use Of Compliments
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316027397

he fourth novel in the charming and hugely popular Sunday Philosophy Club series Philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is about to find her Edinburgh home life profoundly altered by the birth of her baby. But this event is not universally welcomed: Cat, Isabel's niece, has her reasons for not feeling warmly disposed towards the new arrival. Isabel is nevertheless, as her profession...

The Girl Who Married A Lion
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781841955308

The Ndebele people of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, from whom these stories originate, are renowned as the proud descendants of the Zulu nation. They are also the possessors of a language rich in beauty and musicality. From animal fables to mysterious forces residing in the landscape, this collection demonstrates the wealth and variety of African folk tales and the particular magic of Africa's spir...

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375433610

Things go badly awry for Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni when he sets out to do something special for their adopted daughter, Motholeli, and it is up to his wife, Mma Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, to extricate him from his problems. (Mystery & Detective)...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 02: Tears Of The Giraffe
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349122199

THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations... Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to ...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 03: Morality for Beautiful Girls
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349122212

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 OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and now, continuing the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, comes MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, finding Precious expanding her business to take in the world of car rep...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 06: In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780349122205

Precious Ramotswe, traditionally built proprietor of the famous No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is finally married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, the agency is busy and life couldn't be better. Or could it...? With mishaps on the road and personality clashes at work, it seems Mma Ramotswe still has her work cut out....

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 06: In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781904598060

Precious Ramotswe, is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made to her by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Both entertaining and moving, The Company More...of Cheerful Ladies is another masterpiece of comic understatement from Alexander McCall Smith and an affectionate h...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 11: The Double Comfort Safari Club
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781408701058

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife, majestic grasslands and sparkling water. However, it is also home to rival safari operators, fearsome crocodiles and disgruntled hip...

The Right Attitude To Rain
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316730914

Mysteries of love, romance and truth-telling lie at the heart of Isabel Dalhousie's concerns in Alexander McCall Smith's new Sunday Philosophy Club novel. Isabel's niece Cat is still worshipped by the young musician, Jamie, but Cat has a new and unsuitable love-interest. Meanwhile Isabel's Texan cousins have arrived in Edinburgh and are provoking a quite separate set of dilemmas. I...

The Right Attitude to Rain
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780739326909

When friends from Dallas introduce her to Tom Bruce, a Texas tycoon, Isabel Dalhousie turns sleuth to investigate Tom's young fianc ee, who may be more interested in Tom's money than in Tom....

The Sunday Philosophy Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316729567

Edinburgh. Genteel home to ladies who lunch, attend concerts, art exhibitions and - for this is not a showy city - do good by stealth. Ladies such as Isabel Dalhousie. But behind Edinburgh's regimented Georgian facades, it's moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty, lust and murderous intent. Isabel knows this. Isabel, in fact, rather relishes it. An accomplished philosopher an...