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The Joke Machine by Alexander McCall Smith
$16.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Jeffrey spends his Saturdays working in Mr Prendergast's junk shop. One day, while they are sorting things out, they uncover a mysterious machine. Jeffrey takes it home to see if he can make it work. It turns out to be a joke-producing machine, and an extremely funny one at that! Soon everyone in town w ...Show more
The Kalahari Typing School For Men: The multi-million copy bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 4 | Reading Level: good-very good
In this fourth volume of the bestselling series - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, the ever-popular Precious Ramotswe - Botswana's leading, and only, female private detective - faces a new and unwanted problem: competition.
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (#13 No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 13 | Reading Level: very good
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have always relied on the advice of the classic guide to their trade, The Principles of Private Detection. But who is the eminent author, Mr Clovis Andersen, and what if he were to come to Botswana? That seems a very unlikely possibility, and yet ...When Mr Andersen visits B ...Show more
The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is drawn in ...Show more
The Lost Art of Gratitude (Isabel Dalhousie #6) by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels Ser.
The sixth book in this bestselling series gives us Isabel, intrigue -- both moral and financial -- a fox bite, two engagements and at least one wedding While attending a second birthday party with her son, Charlie, Isabel meets Minty Auchterlonie, a ruthlessly ambitious high-flying financier who fir ...Show more
The Man with the Silver Saab (#3 Varg) by Alexander McCall Smith
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Detective Varg Ser.
Perplexing, unfathomable and perhaps unimportant, the cases that Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test them to their limits. Life - and crime - is not always as it seems for Ulf Varg and the other fearless detectives in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. There are always surpris ...Show more
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #14) by Alexander McCall Smith
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
It is said that beauty runs skin deep, and as Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi survey the havoc wreaked by Violet Sephotho in her attempts to drive her rival's Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon out of business, they are forced to conclude that beneath her groomed exterior lies a wicked person. More happily, Mma ...Show more
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #14) by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 14 | 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
The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Book #9 | Reading Level: very good
Precious Ramotswe, traditionally built owner of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, feels that her tiny white van, which has carried her about her business with such steadfastness and reliability should be replaced by a more modern vehicle, what with the suspension on one side (hers) being in such a bad ...Show more
The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #9) by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours. While she ponders the identi ...Show more
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The\No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Ser. | Reading Level: good
A third collection of eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations based on the popular books by Alexander McCall Smith. This collection will include: An Exceptionally Wicked LadyCanoeing for LadiesA Late Van Just GlimpsedThe Saturday Big Tent WeddingA Man From a Far PlaceThe Limpopo Academy of Private De ...Show more
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: No Category
At last! The radio dramatisations acclaimed as "highly evocative" ("The Times") and "simple and enchanting" ("The Observer") are now available on Audio CD. Alexander McCall Smith himself adapted this immensely popular bestselling series of stories for radio. Vibrant music vividly evokes the sights and s ...Show more