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What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Writers on Writers
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie - Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Politics
Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life — and how he might guide yours tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie — Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling autho ...Show more
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Young Adult Fiction
WHAT YOU WISH FOR: A BOOK FOR DARFUR has brought together a potent roster of international talent, from Francisco X. Stork's hopeful 'The Rules for Wishing,' were a young man living in an unusual group home learns what it means to make a wish, to Cornelia Funke's spirited 'Rosanna,' where magic goes awr ...Show more
Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house guests, hangers-on, and French monarchists. Amid a perfect welter of rapturous embraces and moonlight madness, ...Show more
Young Precious: The Collected Adventures by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Junior Fiction
Once upon a time in Botswana there was a little girl called Precious, who grew up to become a famous detective. But even as a young girl she had an extraordinary ability to solve mysteries. This volume contains all her first adventures, from the mystery of some missing snacks to the clues that lead to a ...Show more
Your Inner Hedgehog: A Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: Professor Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld Ser.
In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is forced to confront uppity librarians, the rector of the university and a possible hostile takeover, all while trying to remain studiously above it all. Professor Dr Moritz-Maria ...Show more
Your Inner Hedgehog: A Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Professor Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld Ser.
In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is forced to confront uppity librarians, the rector of the university and a possible hostile takeover, all while trying to remain studiously above it all.Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Mari ...Show more