Three von Igelfeld novels - Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and The Villa of Reduced Circumstances - available in one volume.

Novel from Alexander McCall Smith, full of his trademark humour and wisdom.

The second in the series of Alexander McCall Smith's daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street

* The third novel in Alexander McCall Smith's irresistibly charming series about the residents of 44 Scotland Street

A client, who was adopted, askes Precious Ramotswe to trace her biological family. But will her searches bring happiness or something rather different, something rather frightening?

Mma Ramotswe is widely known for many things. Everybody knows about her kindness & her taste for redbush tea & cake. Everybody is familiar, too, with her tiny white van, which is beginning to feel its age. Are its difficulties to be terminal, or will Charlie, the feckless garage apprentice, be able to save the day?

It is all very well for Mr Clovis Anderson, renowned author of 'The Principles of Private Detection', to warn against working for those we love. But it is clear to Mma Ramotswe that Rra Anderson is not a regular visitor to Botswana, where friends and family, like cattle and acacia trees, are everywhere.

Professor Dr Von Igelfeld is still pursuing his research into Portuguese verbs at the Institute of Romance Philology in Regensburg. His colleagues, Florianus Prinzel & Detlev-Amadeus Unterholzer, are also still in office. But in whose office? This is one of the fears haunting von Igelfeld, who is very protective of his space.

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher & amateur problem solver, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, & is drawn into a murky world of financial concealment.

Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice.