Espresso Tales
The Latest from 44 Scotland Street
$24.65
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2006
Summary
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 invited to a nudist picnic in Moray Place in the pursuit of true love.
Prodigious six-year-old Bertie Pollock wants a boy’s life of fishing and rugby, not yoga and pink dungarees, and he plots rebellion against his bossy, crusading mother Irene and his psychothera…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349119700 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349119708 |
| Author: | Alexander McCall Smith |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2006 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 22mm |
| Series: | 44 Scotland Street |
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It is hard to think of a contemporary writer more genuinely engaging…(his) novels are also extremely funny: I find it impossible to think about them without smiling - Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
A treasure of a writer whose books deserve immediate devouring - Marcel Berlins, GuardianAs warm as cocoa, as cosy as thermal underwear, and just what the doctor ordered for the cold winter evenings - THE TIMESAbout The Author
Alexander McCall Smith
McCall Smith is an Emeritus Professor of Medical Law as well as an author who has written over 50 books on a wide range of subjects: from Forensic Aspects of Sleep to The Criminal Law of Botswana, The Perfect Hamburger (children’s fiction) to The 2 1⁄2 Pillars of Wisdom.
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