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A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #23) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm ...Show more
A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency #23) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: The\No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Ser.
The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm ...Show more
A World Transformed - Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power by James Walvin
Category: History | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the most recent scholarship into a ...Show more
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power by James Walvin
Category: History | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the most recent sc ...Show more
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West by Konstantin Kisin
Category: Biography | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
For all of the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides. Konstantin would know. Growing up in the Soviet Union, he experienced first-hand the horrors of a socialist paradise gone wrong, having lived in extreme poverty ...Show more
CLR James - A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L. Williams
Category: Biography | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, inspired Kwame Nkrumah, and ...Show more
Careering by Daisy Buchanan
Category: Business | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
careering (verb) 1. working endlessly for a job you used to love and now resent entirely 2. moving in a way that feels out of control *There's a fine line between on the right track and coming off the rails. Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, Imogen dreams o ...Show more
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World by John Walsh
Category: Reference | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing - the Establishment writers of the 1950s. It began ...Show more
Colours of all the Cattle, The: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Book 19 by Adjoa Andoh (Read by); Alexander McCall Smith
Category: ABC Old Titles | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Ser.
When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns about the proposed construction of the flashy Big Fun Hotel next to a graveyard, she allows herself to be persuaded. Her opponent is none other than Violet Sephot ...Show more
Here Again Now - 'Written in Exquisite Prose and Told with Compassion and Tenderness' Brit Bennett, Author of the Vanishing Half by Okechukwu Nzelu
Category: No Category | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
'A beautiful exploration of grief and family, written in exquisite prose and told with compassion and tenderness.' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half 'Tender and honest, pulsing with love. Nzelu is the future of Black British writing.' Derek Owusu, author of That Reminds Me From award-winning ...Show more
Hourglass: Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022 by Keiran Goddard
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
'Beautiful and very funny' Brett Anderson'This book glows in the heart of the reader' Max Porter'This book is such a sneaky head f*ck - an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening' Len ...Show more
How to Raise an Elephant (#21 No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: No Category | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
THE NEXT BOOK IN THE BELOVED THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES Catch up on the latest from Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi and other favourites in this new instalment of Alexander McCall Smith's THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY series. The twenty-first book in the series sees Precious Ramotswe call ...Show more