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Morality for Beautiful Girls

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 6 November 2003

* In this third volume of highly original 'detective' stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.

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La's Orchestra Saves the World

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 2 July 2009

** 'The evocation of war-torn England, with its palpable mood of defiance, determination and survival, is beautifully caught' SCOTSMAN

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 5 June 2003

* A highly original 'detective' novel with unique setting and characters, this is the first of four 'Botswana' titles are both beautiful and charming.

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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 20040831

'The Company of Cheerful Ladies' follows the exploits of Precious Ramotswe, the cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', in this next instalment of the 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series.

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The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 25 February 2011

* Mma Ramotswe's twelfth adventure; published in Little, Brown hardback

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Corduroy Mansions

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 1 July 2009

Corduroy Mansions itself - described in a guide to the architecture of the area as 'a building of no interest whatsoever' - is believed to have been built as an asylum, or possibly a school, or maybe it was a mansion block - nobody is very sure. In fact, nothing of its history is known, although it does have some nice Arts and Craft features.

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The Kalahari Typing School for Men

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 26 February 2004

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.

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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 28 February 2005

* Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters featuring Mma Ramotswe and her No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

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Blue Shoes and Happiness

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 11 February 2006

* No. 7 in the marvellous Mma Ramotswe series

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The Full Cupboard of Life

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 1 July 2004

*The fifth in the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series *Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters for people who are fed up with aggressive literature which dwells on selfishness, discourtesy and conflict.

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Tears of the Giraffe

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 7 August 2003

* Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters

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The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 7 February 2008

* The eighth instalment of Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series

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The Girl Who Married a Lion
3 Audio CDs

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 1 June 2006

A collection of short stories and folk tales set in Mma Ramotswe's Africa from the author of THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY Read by Mma Ramotswe

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Akimbo and the Elephants

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 4 April 2005

When Akimbo sees what poachers do to the elephants on his game reserve, he is determined to stop them. There's only one way to do it, and that's to become an elephant hunter himself! But it's going to take strength and courage, and will involve facing danger...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 7 May 2009

* The fifth volume of Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful serial novels set in Edinburgh's New Town

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44 Scotland Street

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 11 August 2005

Novel from Alexander McCall Smith, full of his trademark humour and wisdom.

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The Importance of Being Seven

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 2 June 2011

* The sixth volume of Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful serial novels set in Edinburgh's New Town

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The Full Cupboard of Life

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 20030501

Mma Ramotswe is still engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening request made of him by Mma Potokwani.

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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
v. 8

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 1 September 2011

* The wonderful new Isabel Dalhousie

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Trains and Lovers
The Heart's Journey

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 1 November 2012

'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about.'

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The Girl Who Married a Lion
Folktales from Africa - Adult Edition

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 7 July 2005

How can a girl possibly have married a lion? How can a man have a tree growing out of his head? And how can a woman have children made of wax? The stories in this delightful collection make these questions seem simple, everyday ones - with, as it happens, simple everyday answers.

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Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 4 September 2003

This collection of stories covers perverse meetings, casual dates, and romantic encounters. The stories include the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves - entanglements that can be shocking, compulsive, and even completely disastrous.

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the finer points of sausage dogs

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 1 Jan 2004

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At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 1 August 2003

In this last book, the professor spends six months at Cambridge University on an exchange program. Thus Cambridge becomes the setting for a wide variety of ludicrous situations as Von Igelfeld comes face to face with old English culture.

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Portuguese Irregular Verbs

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: 20030800

Is there anything funny about German professors? This novel features the endless mishaps of the inimitable Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld.

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