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A brand new title in )The Myths( series, told by one of the best selling current authors. Weaving together the tales of the Celtic god and the Scottish scientist, McCaal Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams? This is one of the highest profile titles in the series and will be backed by a major marketing campaign.

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He's rather appealing. Not a fuddy-duddy with a beard - which is what I expected - but a young man. Athletic. Energy."Good."And his eyes . . . There's something about them. Really quite remarkable. Intelligent - really intelligent - but rather mischievous."Sexy?"Dead sexy."Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is also the god of love, youth and beauty. In h...

One City Trust. To celebrate Edinburgh, its literature, and more importantly, its people, Polygon and the One City Trust have brought together writers - established and emerging - to write about the place they call home. Based around landmarks or significant links to Edinburgh each story transports the reader to a different decade in the city's recent past.

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Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi, Gaborone's No. 1 Lady Detectives, do not always agree on important issues - one being the complex male psyche. Grace believes that food is the source of men's happiness, while Precious takes a more nuanced view: men are not so different from women, they want to be loved and needed, too. It is pride that is so often their undoing. Mma Ramotswe is reminded of this when ­her husband, J. L. B. Matekoni, is offe...

Stories of romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness"--Cover.

Jane has always been just a little bit different - she has springs in her knees! A brilliant tale with a spring in it's step from global bestseller Alexander McCall Smith, now in a hi-lo, dyslexia-friendly format for the struggling middle grade reader.

Gegen diesen Kommissar haben selbst die absurdesten Verbrechen keine Chance: Teil 2 der humorvollen Krimi-Reihe aus Schweden von Bestseller-Autor Alexander McCall Smith Kommissar Ulf Varg hat es nicht leicht bei seinen neuesten Ermittlungen: Neben der Depression seines ebenso treuen wie taubstummen Hundes Marten stört auch Kollege Bloomquist die Konzentration seines Chefs mit hochnotpeinlichen Gesundheitstipps. Dabei muss das »Dezernat für he...

A brand new stand-alone novel from Alexander McCall Smith, The Pavilion in the Clouds is a beautifully evocative story, set mostly in 1930s Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). This atmospheric novel, set in the pre- and post-war years in both Ceylon and Scotland poses the question of what it is to be home.

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Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette UK company, London, in 2020"--Copyright page.

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This is a special collection which includes all four of the Alexander McCall Smith''s Young Precious adventures so far:Precious and the MonkeysPrecious and the Missing LionPrecious and the Mystery of Meerkat HillPrecious and the Zebra Necklace

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In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is forced to confront uppity librarians, the rector of the university and a possible hostile takeover, all while trying to remain studiously above it all.Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and his colleagues at the University of Regensburg's Institute of Romance Philology pride themselves on their unwavering commitm...

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