The Novel Habits of Happiness von Smith, Alexander Mccall

To the Land of Long Lost Friends: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (20) von Smith, Alexander Mccall

The latest Isabel Dalhousie novel finds our favourite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry.When Isabel Dalhousie...

The one with the boy who might have been raised by lionsFacing financial trouble, the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency is obliged to move into the same premises as Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. And on top of her domestic complications with...

It is summer in Edinburgh and Isabel Dalhousie is once again caught between 'gossip' and significant rumour. It is none of her business that Patricia, the mother of her son Charlie's little friend Basil, is estranged from Basil's father,...

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate von Smith, Alexander Mccall

Sunshine on Scotland Street: 44 Scotland Street Series (8) von Smith, Alexander Mccall

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 seems interested only in...

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...

THE ONE WITH MMA RAMOTSWE'S SUMMER HOLIDAY'Hugely enjoyable' Sunday Times Mma Ramotswe is taking a break, leaving important tasks in the capable hands of Mma Makutsi, co-director of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. But Mma Ramotswe...

The one where Mma Makutsi has a love rival Mma Makutsi's engagement to Phuti Radiphuti has progressed smoothly so far but suddenly there is trouble in the form of glamorous, empty-headed Violet Sephotho, who has set her sights on her...

Spring is coming slowly to Sweden - though not quite as slowly as Detective Ulf Varg's promised promotion at the Department of Sensitive Crimes. For Varg, referred by his psychoanalyst to group therapy at Malmö's Wholeness Centre, life...