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A Promise of Ankles by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
From the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends.The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will ...Show more
A Promise of Ankles - 44 Scotland Street (14) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 to be relished. After all, there are new faces to excite Domenica's anthropological imagination, precious ...Show more
A Promise of Ankles (44 Scotland Street Novel #14) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street # 14
We are back in Scotland Street, where Bertie is now living with his father and younger brother, Ulysses, his mother, Irene, having gone off to Aberdeen (at long last, in the view of some). Bertie's father has found a friend, and is trying to get to know her better. Irene, though, may have other ideas. B ...Show more
A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency #23) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: FICTION | Series: The\No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Ser.
The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm ...Show more
A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #23) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm ...Show more
A Time of Love and Tartan by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
Catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith . . . 'A joyous, charming portrait of city life and human foibles, which moves beyond its setting to deal with deep moral issues and love, desire and friendship' Sunday Express If only Pat Macgregor h ...Show more
A Time of Love and Tartan (44 Scotland Street #12 HB) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street
Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith ...With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its twelfth season in the Scotsman, making it the longest ...Show more
A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Travel
"I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day - traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade that I have walked past before and not noticed; an unregarded doorway with the names, in brass, of tho ...Show more
Akimbo and the Baboons by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Childrens
Includes brilliant baboon facts! Akimbo loves his life in Africa and the animals that live there. In this newest Akimbo story, a lady comes to study the baboons in the game reserve where Akimbo's father is the head ranger. Akimbo is keen to help and find out all he can about baboons - and in so doing co ...Show more
Akimbo and the Crocodile Man by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: unmapped
When Akimbo is offered the chance to help tag baby crocodiles, he is very excited. John the Crocodile man wants to keep an eye on the latest batch of crocodiles, and Akimbo is keen to learn more about the dangerous creatures. Then John is attacked by an angry croc, and Akimbo has to use all his courage ...Show more
Akimbo and the Elephants by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Children's
When Akimbo sees what poachers do to the elephants on his game reserve, he is determined to stop them. There
Akimbo and the Lions by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Children's
Thereâs a hungry lion stealing cattle, and Akimboâs father has to catch it! But instead, he traps a cub. The cub wonât survive for long without its mother. Can Akimbo help save itbThe second exciting Akimbo adventure from best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith.