It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs...
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Auteur: Smith, Alexander McCallSommaire:Genre: Humorous fiction, Short stories
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Auteur: McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
Between glances in the mirror, vain Bruce contemplates a new career as a wine merchant. His troubled flatmate Pat finds herself looking for true love at a nudist picnic. Precocious Bertie, now six...
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Auteur: McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another...
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Auteur: King, Laurie R.Sommaire:
Laurie R. King illuminates the hidden corners of her beloved Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series in this dynamic story collection. In nine short stories, seven of which have never previously...
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Auteur: Walker, MartinSommaire:
Bruno, the beloved chief of police in the idyllic French town of St. Denis, is back! This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero-and favorite gourmand-to...
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Auteur: Smith, Alexander McCallSommaire:
Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another...
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Auteur: Stross, CharlesSommaire:
In this collection of short stories, novelist Stross moves the U.S.-U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy in "Missile Gap," offers a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox in...
Genre: Science fiction, Short stories -
Auteur: McCormack, EricSommaire:
Rachel, the mother of the aging professor Thomas Vanderlinden, shared her life with two men. Both went by the name of Rowland Vanderlinden. The first husband went abroad and never returned. The...
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Auteur: Walker, MartinSommaire:
An anonymous skull, an unsolved murder, sinister rumors about Cold War espionage—Bruno's investigation into a long-standing cold case takes him into the tangled inheritance of a Bergerac...
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Auteur: McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world....
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Auteur: McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for...
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Auteur: Smith, Alexander McCallSommaire:
Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar. The...
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Auteur: Smith, Alexander McCallSommaire:
Domestic bliss seems in short supply at 44 Scotland Street. Over at the Pollocks, dad, Stuart, is harbouring a secret about a secret society and Bertie is feeling kind of blue. Having had enough...
Genre: Humorous fiction