- Social life and customs, FICTION / Urban Life, Neighborhoods, Terriers
"It's back to Corduroy Mansions--the slightly dilapidated but well-lived-in mansion block in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood--for the third installment in Alexander McCall Smith's newest popular series.
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Contemporary, classical in form, warm and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Pantheon, Recorded Books, Inc.
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781846971822
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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 and worked in universities in the UK and abroad before turning his hand to writing fiction. He has written and contributed to more than 100 books including specialist academic titles, short story collections, and a number of immensely popular children’s books. His first book, The White Hippo—a children’s book, was published by Hamish Hamilton in 1980. But it wasn’t until the publication of the highly successful The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series that Alexander became a household name. The series has now sold over twenty mill
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