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Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: Isobel Dalhousie Novels
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 w ...Show more
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (Isabel Dalhousie #2) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels Ser.
The delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's already hugely popular new detective series, The Sunday Philosophy Club, starring the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie -- editor of the Journal of Applied Ethics -- and her no-nonsense housekeeper, Grace. When Isabel's niece, Cat, a ...Show more
Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #15) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 15
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 her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, goo ...Show more
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 6
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', 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 by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Unfortu ...Show more
Love Over Scotland (#3 44 Scotland Street) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against ...Show more
Morality For Beautiful Girls: The multi-million copy bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 3
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. THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging ...Show more
Sunshine on Scotland Street (#8 44 Scotland Street) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
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 novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy--just ask his mother. From social media to the finer poin ...Show more
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #10) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 10
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 her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, goo ...Show more
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 2
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 ...Am ...Show more
The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom (The Von Igelfeld Trilory #1-3) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: The\von Igelfeld Ser.
Three von Igelfeld novels - Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and The Villa of Reduced Circumstances - available in one volume.
The Colours of All the Cattle (#19 No 1 Ladies Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The latest installment from THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY series Mma Ramotswe's friend will persuade her to stand for election to the City Council. 'We need women like her in politics,' Mma Potokwani says, 'instead of having the same old men every time . . .' To be elected, Mma Ramotswe must have a ...Show more
The Comfort of Saturdays (Isabel Dalhousie #5) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels Ser.
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 her 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 the ...Show more