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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Alexander McCall Smith’s Portuguese Irregular Verbs series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the incorrigible, endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Regensburg, Germany.
McCall Smith’s generous writing and dry humor, his gentleness and humanity, and his ability to evoke a place and a set of characters without caricature or condescension have endeared his books to readers — New York Times Alexander McCall Smith, often referred to as ‘Sandy’, is one of the world’s most prolific and best-loved authors. For many years he was a professor of Medical Law ...
“I always get a little shiver of excitement when I have a new book by Alexander McCall Smith. These are the books that I devour regardless of my normal day-to-day, mother-of-two activities and I have been known to carry on reading them whilst cooking, book in one hand, spatula in the other, much to the detriment of the sausages left burning under the grill!” BOOKBAG Quite literally ‘hot ...
The fifteenth book in Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved Isabel Dalhousie series. Isabel Dalhousie, everyone’s favourite moral philosopher, is once again called on to help navigate a decidedly delicate dispute.
February is the month of love, and Alexander McCall Smith’s writing is always filled with musings about the nature of love, both romantic and platonic. In his poetry collection In A Time of Distance, there is a whole section on poems about love.