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44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith ; Illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - Wydanie 8. - London : Abacus, 2005. - 326 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

(44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith ; 1)

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). McIntosh, Iain. McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). 44 Scotland Street (ang.)

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The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, who is making good progress with the saxophone and with his Italian. Then there is Domenica Macdonald who is that type of Edinburgh lady who sees herself as a citizen of a broader intellectual world. In McCall Smith's hands such characters retain charm and novelty, simultaneously arousing both mirth and empathy. 44 Scotland Street is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is a novel that provides huge entertainment but which is underpinned by the moral dilemmas of everyday life and the characters' struggles to resolve them.

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Espresso Tales / Alexander McCall Smith ; Illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 2006. - 342 strony : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

(44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith ; 2)

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). McIntosh, Iain. McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). 44 Scotland Street (ang.)

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In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a new career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat MacGregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica Macdonald, finds herself invited to a nudist picnic in Moray Place in the pursuit of true love. Prodigious six-year-old Bertie Pollock wants a boy's life of fishing and rugby, not yoga and pink dungarees, and he plots rebellion against his bossy, crusading mother Irene and his psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn. But when Bertie's longed-for trip to Glasgow with his ineffectual father Stuart ends with Bertie taking money off legendary Glasgow hard man Lard O'Connor at cards, it looks as though Bertie should have been more careful what he wished for. And all the time it appears that both Irene Pollock and Dr Fairbairn are engaged in a struggle with dark secrets and unconscious urges of their own.

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The Importance of Being Seven / Alexander McCall Smith ; Illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - Wyd. 2. - London : Abacus, 2011. - 278, [1] s. : il. ; 20 cm.

(44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith ; 6)

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). McIntosh, Iain. McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). 44 Scotland Street (ang.)

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Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence. Matthew and Elspeth receive startling - and expensive - news on a visit to the Infirmary, Angus and Domenica are contemplating an Italian menage a trois, and even Big Lou is overheard discussing cosmetic surgery. But when Bertie Pollock - six years old and impatient to be seven - mislays his meddling mother Irene one afternoon, a valuable lesson is learned: that wish-fulfilment is a dangerous business. Warm-hearted, wise and very funny, The Importance of Being Seven brings us a fresh and delightful set of insights into philosophy and fraternity among Edinburgh's most loveable residents.

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Love Over Scotland / Alexander McCall Smith ; Illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 2007. - 355 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

(44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith ; 3)

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). McIntosh, Iain. McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). 44 Scotland Street (ang.)

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With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against his insufferable mother and her crony, the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn, going as far as to make a short-lived bid for freedom on a trip to Paris with the Edinburgh youth orchestra. Domenica sets off on an anthropological odyssey with pirates in the Malacca Straits, while Pat attracts several handsome admirers, including a toothsome suitor named Wolf. And Big Lou, eternal source of coffee and good advice to her friends, has love, heartbreak and erstwhile boyfriend Eddie's misdemeanours on her own mind.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones / Alexander McCall Smith ; Illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 2009. - 328 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

(44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith ; 5)

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). McIntosh, Iain. McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). 44 Scotland Street (ang.)

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To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that her small son Bertie harbours a highly unsuitable ambition; the gloriously vain Bruce discovers a wrinkle and confronts rejection; and Angus finds himself facing the grave consequences of unbridled bliss, not to mention a large Glaswegian gangster bearing gifts...

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The World According to Bertie / Alexander McCall Smith ; Illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 2008. - 329 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

(44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith ; 4)

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). McIntosh, Iain. McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). 44 Scotland Street (ang.)

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Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother's influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London to land, on his feet and rent-free, in the arms of heiress Julia Donald. But all is not well among the residents of 44 Scotland Street: Angus's dog and constant companion Cyril is under threat of execution, victim of a miscarriage of justice, while pretty, indecisive Pat and hopeless romantic Matthew are on the verge of making the most terrible mistake of their lives ...Big Lou finds a new man, Matthew and Pat edge their relationship towards something more permanent - although this development is not without complications, when a glimpse of someone who just might be her handsome, caddish ex-flatmate Bruce sets Pat's pulse racing - and Domenica's friendship with Antonia is tested to the limit when an assortment of her belongings mysteriously appear in Antonia's new flat.

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