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Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 2
Duration 1h 28m
'The Maid' sees Mma Ramotswe visiting the house of the mechanic she has agreed to marry, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. But there is a shock in store for her... Back at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, there is the mystery of the erratic doctor to look into, and a 'cold case' involving an American who went missing from a communal farm. 'Tears of the Gira...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series 1 - 3
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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Duration 3h 30m
Alexander McCall Smith's delightful series of novels form the basis of these radio dramas featuring the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement building. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of Edinburgh's New Town. Verging on the Bohemian, here the haute bourgeoisie rubs shoulders with students and the more colo...
View BookKalahari Typing School & Admirer
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 4
Duration 1h 28m
Two stand-alone BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas adapted by Alexander McCall Smith from his much-loved series 'The Kalahari Typing School for Men' opens with bad news for Mma Ramotswe - her agency has competition in the form of the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency, run by a man. Mma Makutsi has entrepreneurial ambitions too, and has conceived t...
View BookHow To Handle Men Through the Application of Psychology & the House of Hope
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 5
Duration 1h 27m
Warm, humorous and uplifting, Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular novels featuring Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswana's only female private detective agency, have become international bestsellers, sold over seven million copies, and been translated into 26 languages.These acclaimed productions, complete with vibrant music, bring the exot...
View BookThe No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency: The Daddy & the Bone
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 1
Duration 1h 28m
'The Daddy' introduces us to Mma Ramotswe as she embarks on her first case and takes on a new secretary, the resourceful and talented Mma Makutsi. Together, they must find the truth about a Daddy who appears to have returned from the dead - as well as investigating a wayward teenage girl and attempting to find a vanished child. 'The Bone' sees the...
View BookChief Justice of Beauty & Confession
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 3
Duration 1h 28m
'The Chief Justice of Beauty' finds the ladies hired by a beauty contest judge to check up on the integrity of the finalists in a forthcoming competition, following the embarrassing arrest for shoplifting of a previous winner. Meanwhile, Mma Ramotsweis worried about her fianc‚, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. 'The Confession' sees Mma Ramotswe consulti...
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Susan Lyons
Duration 10h 48m
A novel about love and following one's heart, and the unexpected places to which this can lead us. At the age of four Clover chooses her own name. Aged six, she falls in love with her best friend, James. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: Clover's mother finds she's fallen out of love with her husband, and realises that James's fathe...
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 11h 18m
Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith captures the strange wonderful goings on of the residents and visitors at Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, from nasty Liberal Democrat MP Oedipus Snark to the newest resident, Pimlico Terrier Freddie de la Hay.
View BookThe Careful Use of Compliments
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Davina Porter
Duration 8h 6m
For philosophically-minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And whilst juggling the arrival of baby Charlie, a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, a truce with her furious niece Cat, and struggles for authority over her son with her formidable...
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