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Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 7h
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. She edits the 'Review of Applied Ethics' and hosts 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades, its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the...
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 4h 5m
Mma Ramotswe reads the foreword she has written to these African tales, then goes on to narrate them all herself, passing them on to us verbally as her father's aunt did to her. From animal fables to mysterious forces residing in the landscape, this collection demonstrates the wealth and variety of African folk tales and the particular magic of Afr...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies Detective Agency 07: Blue Shoes and Happiness
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 7h 30m
Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has she settled her traditionally bu...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies Detective Agency 03: Morality For Beautiful Girls
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 6h 15m
THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and now, continuing the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, finds her expanding her business to...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies Detective Agency 02: Tears of the Giraffe
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 6h 20m
THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations ... Among her cases this time are wayward wives, un...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies Detective Agency 01
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 6h 35m
Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 5: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 5
Duration 11h 35m
To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 4: The World According To Bertie
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 4
Duration 12h 20m
Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother's influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London to land, on his feet and rent-free, in the arms of heiress Julia Donald. But...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 3: Love Over Scotland
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 3
Duration 13h 45m
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against his insufferable mother and her crony, the psy...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 2: Espresso Tales
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 2
Duration 12h 20m
This audiobook returns to the residents of '44 Scotland Street' (0244CD), with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a new career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat MacGregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica MacDonald, finds herself...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 05: The Full Cupboard of Life
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 6h 40m
The fifth book in the detective series featuring Precious Ramotswe of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. 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 indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening re...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 04: The Kalahari Typing School For Men
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 5h 45m
The fourth book in the detective series featuring Precious Ramotswe of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Precious is continuing to run her detective agency from the garage of her fiance, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. Plans for their wedding need to be made - but when, if ever, will they wed? In the meantime Mma Ramotswe juggles new clients with her usual fo...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 06: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 7h 40m
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator, is well-known to millions across the world through the best-selling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. She is finally married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, and the Agency is very busy, but she cannot ignore a plea which is made to her by a woman with a tale of particular misfortune. Unf...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 1: 44 Scotland Street
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 1
Duration 12h 55m
The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable is the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother and her prodig...
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