Alexander McCall Smith
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must it have been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance but her inquiries will require an even more delicate touch than usual. Mma Ramotswe reconnects with an old friend who has been having problems with her daughter. Though Precious feels compelled to lend a hand, she discovers that getting involved in family affairs is always a delicate proposion. Mr. J.L.B....
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the lives of the residents of an Edinburgh boarding house.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 12
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isabel becomes involved in a delicate paternity case in the twelfth installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie Series. Isabel finds herself befriended by Patricia, a single mother whose son, Basil, goes to school with Isabel's son. Isabel discovers that Basil is the product of an affair Patricia had with a well-known Edinburgh organist, also named Basil, who was, rumor has it, initially reluctant to contribute financially to the child's upkeep....
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma Woodhouse arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in the giant family pile, Hartfield, alongside Emma's anxiety-ridden father. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. But there is only one person who can play with Emma's indestructible confidence,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age 4, Clover chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: as Clover falls for her first love, and allows her heart to chart her life's course, her mother Amanda realizes that she's fallen out of love with Clover's father, and that her carefully mapped-out future is actually unknown territory. Through the years, mother...
Author
Series
[Portuguese irregular verbs series] volume 2
Publisher
Anchor
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of The Institute of Romance Philology is mistaken for a veterinarian, he ends up practicing veterinary medicine without a license, operating on a friend's dachshund with unfortunate results; transports relics for a Coptic prelate; and is pursued by lovesick widows on a Mediterranean cruise ship.
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In these hilarious stories of perverse meetings, casual dates and romantic encounters, we are enthralled, saddened, inspired and surprised by the encounters were made privy to. 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 that can be shocking, edifying, compulsive, complicated and...
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 7-8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals that faulty bloodpressure readings are being recorded there. And Botswana has a new advice columnist, Aunty Emang, whose advice is rather curt for Mma Ramotswes taste. All this means a lot of work for our heroine and her inestimable assistant, Grace Makutsi, and...
Author
Series
[Akimbo series] volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2006.
Language
English
Description
On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 6
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Will Bertie ever get away from his overbearing mother? And will we say goodbye to a Scotland Street resident Angus Lordie and his gold-toothed dog Cyril as a jaunt to the hills of Tuscany beckons? They star alongside the familiar cast of favourites, as we follow their daily pursuit of a little happiness.
Author
Series
[Akimbo series] volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Akimbo and his cousin Kosi accompany a scientist into the African bush to study the behavior of a troop of baboons.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 4
Publisher
Anchor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The lives of the eccentric denizens of Edinburgh's 44 Scotland Street are seen through the eyes of six-year-old Bertie, the Italian-speaking prodigy and saxophonist, who is hoping that his new baby brother, Ulysses, will distract his mother Irene.
Author
Series
[Akimbo series] volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Akimbo goes to the rescue of a zoologist who is injured on his father's game preserve.
Author
Series
Corduroy Mansions novel volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
[Max and Maddy] volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Asked by a Swiss banker to investigate a series of bank robberies committed by dogs, young detectives Max and Maddy Twist travel to Switzerland, where they discover that the man behind the robberies is none other than Professor Sardine.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 7
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladies and others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important "Government Man," and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest, the winner of which will almost certainly be a contestant for the title of Miss Botswana. Yet her business is having money problems, and when other difficulties arise at...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 5
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Precious Ramotswe is asked to locate two women, her assistant starts a typing school for men, and the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency gets a competitor when a new agency opens.