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Smith, Alexander McCall 44 Scotland Street: A 44 Scotland Street Novel
Anchor June 14, 2005 1-4000-7944-6 / 9781400079445 Paperback As New
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Like Smith's bestselling Botswana mysteries, this book--comprising 110 sections, originally serialized in the Scotsman, that drolly chronicle the lives of residents in an Edinburgh boarding house--is episodic, amusing and peopled with characters both endearing and benignly problematic. Pat, 21, is on her second "gap year" (her first yearlong break from her studies was such a flop she refuses to discuss it), employed at a minor art gallery and newly settled at the eponymous address, where she admires vain flatmate Bruce and befriends neighbor Domenica. A low-level mystery develops about a possibly valuable painting that Pat discovers, proceeds to lose and then finds in the unlikely possession of Ian Rankin, whose bestselling mysteries celebrate the dark side of Edinburgh just as Smith's explore the (mostly) sunny side. The possibility of romance, the ongoing ups and downs of the large, well-drawn cast of characters, the intricate plot and the way Smith nimbly jumps from situation to situation and POV to POV--he was charged, after all, with keeping his newspaper readers both momentarily satisfied and eager for the next installment--works beautifully in book form. No doubt Smith's fans will clamor for more about 44 Scotland Street, and given the author's celebrated productivity, he'll probably give them what they want.
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Smith, Alexander McCall Blue Shoes and Happiness
Anchor March 13, 2007 1-4000-7571-8 / 9781400075713 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: The seventh entry in the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series (after 2005's In the Company of Cheerful Ladies) reaffirms Smith's considerable gifts as a writer. His familiar characters offer further facets of their personalities, and their gentle, tolerant approach to life remains a refreshing contrast to most fictional figures, let alone those populating most mysteries. The author's love for his creations and for his Botswana setting are evident on every page. While the plot will be of secondary importance to fans of Precious Ramotswe, the "traditionally-built," self-taught private detective, and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, Smith presents them with several mysteries, including the search for the identity of a blackmailer and the source of malaise at a nearby game reserve. Ramotswe's intuition and understanding enable her to find the truth, while dispensing justice according to her own personal dictates. Even newcomers will be charmed by this wonderful novel, with its skillful blend of humor and pathos, and will doubtless rush to catch up with the earlier books.
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Smith, Alexander McCall No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Abacus July 7, 2005 0-349-11908-2 / 9780349119083 Paperback Very Good
'The author's prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision.' A nthony Daniels, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Everything about [McCall Smith] is appeal ing. He's just full of delight - it just bubbles out of him' SUNDAY HERALD 'A rare pleasure' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A publishing phenomenon' GUARDIAN 'Indee d, the effort involved would have been justified by just one of them, THE N O.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY' Gerald Kaufman, Chairman of the 1999 BOOKER P rize Jury 'The beauty of the land, the people, the colours and smells are c onveyed with such warmth that you find yourself laughing and crying instead of, as so often, hardening your heart against the seeming hopelessness of an entire continent. I can think of no author save Dickens who achieved suc h an effect, and no author writing today so deserving of an enormous audien ce.' NEW STATESMAN 'This crime novel is in a category of its own...Precious Ramotswe herself is unforgettable... But if Precious is the heroine of thi s gem of a series, then Botswana is its hero. Rarely in fiction, has a coun try been depicted so lovingly.' GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Creating a genuinely origi nal character in an already overcrowded field of crime fiction is no mean f eat. But in a genre crowded with wisecracking mavericks, recovering alcohol ics with anger-management problems and kick-boxing female FBI agents, it's fair to say that in Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's finest- and only- woman d etective, McCall Smith has broken the mould.' OBSERVER
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Smith, Alexander Sunday Philosophy Club
TBS The Book Service Ltd 2 Jun 2005 0-349-11868-X / 9780349118680 Paperback Fine
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethi cs - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationshi ps' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinbur gh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning wit h greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the yo ung man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the U sher Hall didn't fall. He was pushed. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander McCal l Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayh em - and the mysteries of life.
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Smith, Alexander McCall Tears of the Giraffe
Knopf Publishing Group September 2002 1-4000-3135-4 / 9781400031351 Paperback Near Fine
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 detectiv e agency. In Tears of the Giraffe Mma Ramotswe faces a new challenge: resol ving a mother“s pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Mm a Ramotswe“s own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma“s secretary to the dizzy heights of Assis tant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.
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Smith, Alexander Mccall The Full Cupboard of Life
Anchor January 25, 200 1-4000-3181-8 / 9781400031818 Paperback Near Fine
"Utterly enchanting." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Beguiling. . . . The author's deceptively simple prose . . . is as supple as ever. His gift for effortless description of dusty, sun-baked Africa is undiminished." -The Seattle Times "Smith's big-hearted Botswana stories...[allow] his readers to escape into a world of simple, picturesque pleasures and upstanding virtues." --The New York Times Book Review "Brims with the same old-fashioned charm as its lovely predecessors.... An engaging read." --Entertainment Weekly "The Full Cupboard of Life is a treasure of wit and wisdom. Read it and you will find yourself very much like Botswanans on happy occasions: ululating with pleasure." -Dallas Morning News "Delightful. . . . The warm humanity . . . is what brings readers back. . . . There is a simplicity and lyricism in [the] language that brings out the profound importance of . . . everyday revelations." --San Francisco Chroni cle "Enthralling. . . . [Mma Ramotswe] is someone readers can't help but love. . . . A well-told story." --USA Today "The greatest mystery in this witty and charming book is whether Mma Ramots we will succeed in getting her fiance to name a date for their long-anticip ated wedding. It's hard to conceive of any reader not being just as eager t o find out as she is." --The Wall Street Journal "Soothing. . . . Full of authentic African touches. New readers can start h ere . . . and enjoy a plot even more inventive than the earlier ones." --Pe ople "[McCall Smith's] accomplished novels . . . [are] dependent on small gestures redolent with meaning and main characters blessed with pleasing personalities. . . . Not
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Smith, Alexander McCall The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Anchor 2008 0-349-11773-X / 9780349117737 Paperback Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: 'Simple, elegantly written and gently insightful' THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Perf ect escapist fiction' THE TIMES 'There is a timelessness to the tales, yet they are also of the moment ... His talent is to see the god in small thing s' SUNDAY TIMES SCOTLAND 'This is delicious, light-hearted stuff and I love it - my only criticism is that these books are just not long enough' THE L ADY 'Nothing will dim the charm of McCall Smith's series, with its portrait s of goodness, its sorrow over greed and its profound love of Africa. They are among the greatest comfort-reads of all time, written in plain, elegant prose' Amanda Craig, INDEPENDENT 'Simple, elegantly written and gently ins ightful' THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Perfect escapist fiction' THE TIMES 'There is a timelessness to the tales, yet they are also of the moment ... His talen t is to see the god in small things' SUNDAY TIMES SCOTLAND 'This is delicio us, light-hearted stuff and I love it - my only criticism is that these boo ks are just not long enough' THE LADY Sunday Times Scotland 'There is a timelessness to the tales, yet they are also of the moment'
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Smith, Alexander McCall The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Abacus February 26, 20 0-349-11704-7 / 9780349117041 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: The fourth appearance of Precious Ramotswe, protagonist of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and two sequels, is once again a charming account of the everyday challenges facing a female private detective in Botswana. In his usual unassuming style, McCall Smith takes up Ramotswe's story soon after the events described in Tears of the Giraffe. Precious and her fiance, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, still have not set a wedding date, but they continue to nurture the sibling orphans in their care, as well as the entrepreneurial ambitions of Precious's assistant, Mma Makutsi, who sets out to open a typing school for men. Along the way, Ramotswe handles a few cases and negotiates the arrival of a rival detective in Gaborone. The competition, a sexist detective who boasts of New York City street smarts, proves a delicious foil to his distaff counterpart. A moral component enters the story in the person of a successful engineer who wishes to atone for his past sins. He enlists Ramotswe to help him find the woman he has wronged, and this case comes to a satisfying yet hardly sentimental conclusion. But the real appeal of this slender novel is Ramotswe's solid common sense, a proficient blend of folk wisdom, experience and simple intelligence. She is a bit of a throwback to the days of courtesy and manners, and casts disapproving glances at the apprentices in her fiance's auto shop who obsess about girls instead of garage protocol. A dose of easy humor laces the pages, as McCall Smith throws in wry observations, effortlessly commenting on the vagaries his protagonist encounters as she negotiat
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Smith, Alexander McCall The Right Attitude to Rain : An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
ABACUS 2007 0-349-11805-1 / 9780349118055 Paperback Very Good
** 'Isabel is an appealing character, always trying to work out the right t hing to do, and McCall Smith presents her with a series of dilemmas This is an unconventional novel, in which the power of emotion to cloud human inte lligence takes precedence, but it is shot through with a gentle humanism th at will delight McCall Smith's admirers' SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Delightful ... Mc Call Smith is a writer who celebrates kindness, in short supply in the worl d today'
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Smith, Alexander McCall The Sunday Philosophy Club
Little Brown Publishers and 0-316-72956-6 / 9780316729567 Paperback Near Fine
The Herald 'Vintage McCall Smith, written with a characteristic twinkle in his eye and the graceful clarity of an aesthetically attuned lawyer.' The Herald 'Sets up Isabel Dalhousie as Edinburgh's latest, and most engaging investigator.' The Herald
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