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• The Bureau of Second Chances

  Paperback | Pub: 08 Jun 2017

  £8.99

  After more than thirty years in London, recently widowed Thomas Imbalil returns to India.  He spends his first months in uncluttered isolation in his house overlooking the Arabian Sea, in a small village in Kerala.  But when he agrees to look...

• Chance Developments

  Paperback | Pub: 11 May 2017

  £7.99

  In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them. Who were those people, what were their stories, why are they smiling,...

• The Girl From the Channel Islands

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Jul 2022

  £8.99

  ‘Combines historical fact with the fictional narrative, and offers a cast rich with multidimensional characters. Readers will be riveted’ – Publishers Weekly In June 1940, the Channel Islands becomes the only part of Great Britain to...

• The Second Worst Restaurant in France

  Paperback | Pub: 11 Jun 2020

  £8.99

  Paul Stewart has returned to Scotland to continue his successful career. His agent and girlfriend, Gloria, has arranged for him to write The Philosophy of Food in Six Easy Chapters, a project he relishes but that will have to be delivered in six...

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  Tiny Tales

  Hardback | Pub: 13 Aug 2020

  £9.99

  Stories do not have to be long. In the space of a couple of sentences – or even a page or two – we can see the human heart exposed in a way that is more powerful than in a novel. In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition,...

• Trains and Lovers

  Paperback | Pub: 10 Aug 2017

  £7.99

  Imagine you’re on a train. Think about all the other people on the train with you, what their lives are or have been, and the different experiences you’ve all had. But there is one more thing that you undoubtedly all share: you have all...

• The Translator

  Paperback | Pub: 29 May 2008

  £7.99

  Sammar is a young Sudanese widow, working as an Arabic translator at a British university. Following the sudden death of her husband, and estranged from her young son, she drifts, grieving and isolated. Life takes a positive turn when she finds...