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Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams by Alexander McCall Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This novel is based on the myth of the Celtic god Angus who carries dreams to peole while they sleep. Woven into Angus's story, are 5 contemporary fables, exquisite short stories in which dreams play a pivotal narrative role. Angus is present in all of these stories because the dreams themselves shape w ...Show more
Emma by Alexander McCall Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to EMMA, the next book in The Austen Project. Prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything. Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a sp ...Show more
Emma : A Modern Retelling by Alexander McCall Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series deftly escorts Jane Austen's beloved, meddlesome heroine into the twenty-first century in this delightfully inventive retelling. The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury to prepare for the lau ...Show more
Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
$39.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street S.
The comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street first made their way into print in The Scotsman newspaper in the first half of 2004. Espresso Tales features further escapades from the fringes of the New Town which appeared in The Scotsman during 2005.This new novel gives Scotland Street aficionados a ch ...Show more
Espresso Tales (44 Scotland Street #2) by Alexander McCall Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy-just ask his mother.Back are all our favorite denizens of ...Show more
Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party by Alexander McCall Smith
$22.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius 'Fatty O'Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty can normally take life as it comes. Right at home in easy-going Fayetteville, Arkansas, he is happily married to his childhood sweetheart Betty, and likes no ...Show more
Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party by Alexander McCall Smith
$32.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
His loving wife Betty plans a trip to Ireland for his 40th birthday and almost immediately things go wrong: the seats in economy class on the plane are too small; Irish bathroom furniture is not as commodious as he'd have liked. And all the time Fatty must put up with the unthinking cruelty of strangers ...Show more
Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean #1 by Alexander McCall Smith
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
One day, out of the blue, Harriet Bean's dad says to her, 'Your aunts would like to hear about that!' Harriet is shocked - this is the first time she's heard anything about any aunts, and suddenly, she has five of them! Naturally, she's very curious to meet them, especially as her dad has told her that ...Show more
Forever Girl by Alexander McCall Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Clover has loved James for as long as she can remember, since before she knew what what love was. But fate seems determined to keep them apart. As children, Clover and James played beside a turquoise sea under cloudless skies, their Caribbean island home a place of pleasure and privilege, of lush lawns ...Show more
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Isobel Dalhousie Novels
Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is...well, perhaps a bit more challenging - particularly w ...Show more
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Isabel Dalhousie Ser.
The delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's already hugely popular new detective series, The Sunday Philosophy Club, starring the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie -- editor of the Journal of Applied Ethics -- and her no-nonsense housekeeper, Grace. When Isabel's niece, Cat, a ...Show more
Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #15) by Alexander McCall Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 15 | Reading Level: very good
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, goo ...Show more