Biographical portrait

2008 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 344 pages in good condition. R65 postage in SA. The fifth volume of Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful serial novels set in Edinburgh's New Town 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... Biographical Notes Following a distinguished career as a Professor of Medical Law, Alexander McCall Smith has turned to writing full-time. He is the author of over sixty books on a wide array of subjects, and his books have been translated into forty-five languages. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife.  

About the product Crown 8vo; original red cloth blocked in gilt and black; pp. 259, incl. index; frontis. portrait. Backstrip a little tanned; edges a little browned; Very good condition. Besides the poems, which take up around two hundred pages, the book provides a"biographical sketch of fifty-four pages following Conder, Ritchie, the Narrative, and a few later writers, such as Meurant."- John Robert Doyle: Thomas Pringle, p. 182.

About the product South African Archaeological Society Bulletin Supplement to Vol. XVII, No. 65, March 1962. 4to; original tan cloth; pp. 37-84; frontispiece portrait. Cloth a little scratched; browning to endpapers. Very good condition. Contents: Biographical Sketch (B.D. Malan), Pleistocene Geology (H.B.S. Cooke), The Earlier Stone Age and the Transvaal (R.J. Mason), The Later Stone Age (J. Rudner), Prehistoric Art (A.R. Willcox), Post-Stone Age Studies (Roger Summers), Beyond South Africa (J. Desmond Clark), A Prehistorian's Approach to Prehistory (L.H. Wells) and Bibliography of C. van Riet Lowe. The Contribution of C. Van Riet Lowe to Prehistory in Southern Africa (Books)