44 SCOTLAND STREET
Volume 1
All of Alexander McCall Smith’s trademark warmth and wit come into play in this novel chronicling the lives of the residents of a converted Georgian town house in Edinburgh. Complete with colorful characters, love triangles, and even a mysterious art caper, this is an unforgettable portrait of Edinburgh society.
ESPRESSO TALES
Volume 2
The eccentric residents of 44 Scotland Street are back. From the talented six-year-old Bertie, who is forced to arrive in pink overalls for his first day of class, to the self-absorbed Bruce, who contemplates a change of career in between admiring glances in the mirror, there is much in store as fall settles on Edinburgh.
LOVE OVER SCOTLAND
Volume 3
Complications continue in the lives of the denizens of 44 Scotland Street. From conducting perilous anthropological studies of pirate households to being inadvertently left behind on a school trip to Paris, the wonderful misadventures of these residents will charm and delight.
“McCall Smith’s assessments of fellow humans are piercing and profound. … [His] depictions of Edinburgh are vividand seamless.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BERTIE
Volume 4
There is never a quiet moment in the tenement on 44 Scotland Street. Pat is forced to deal with the reappearance of Bruce, which has her heart skipping—and not in the most pleasant way. Angus Lordie’s dog, Cyril, has been taken away by the authorities, accused of being a serial biter, but Domenica has unexpectedly offered to help free him. And Bertie, the beleaguered Italian-speaking prodigy and saxophonist, now has a little brother, Ulysses, who he can only hope will distract his mother, Irene.
The sensational fifth installment in the “utterly enchanting” 44 Scotland Street series
—Chicago Sun-Times
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF SCONES
Volume 5
Featuring all the quirky characters we have come to know and love, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones finds Bertie, the precocious six-year-old, still troubled by his rather overbearing mother, Irene, but seeking his escape in the Cub Scouts. Matthew is rising to the challenge of married life with newfound strength and resolve, while Domenica epitomizes the loneliness of the long-distance intellectual. Cyril, the gold-toothed star of the whole show, succumbs to the kind of romantic temptation that no dog can resist and creates a small problem, or rather six of them, for his friend and owner, Angus Lordie.
“Superlative. … [An] understanding, affectionate look at [the]human frailties … foibles … and misadventures of a precocioussix-year-old, Bertie Pollock, and a host of other folksin contemporary Edinburgh.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
THREE NOVELLAS INTRODUCING THE ECCENTRIC AND EVER-LIKABLE PROFESSOR DR VON IGELFELD
“A deftly rendered trilogy … [with] endearingly eccentric characters.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr MoritzMaria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due—a quest that has a way of going hilariously astray.
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
ALSO BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
LA’S ORCHESTRA SAVES THE WORLD
It is 1939, and Lavender—La to her friends—has fled London for small-town life to avoid German bombs and to escape memories of her shattered marriage. As the war drags on, in need of some diversion and to boost the town’s morale, La organizes an amateur orchestra, drawing musicians from the village and local RAF base, including Feliks, a shy Polish refugee who becomes La’s prized recruit. Does La’s orchestra save the world? The people who come to hear it think so. But, what will become of it after the war is over? And what will become of La herself?
