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Tiny Tales: Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness


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Table of Contents:
This book contains tales of:    LOVE Descent 3 Sister Angelica 6 By post 12 Takahashi Ichiro, passenger-pusher 16 Amuse-bouche: Romance & relationships 23   POPE RON The first adventure of Pope Ron 31 The Pope goes swimming 35 You the Pope? 37 The Pope in the country 43 Pope Ron & the book club 47 Pope Ron’s friend 51 Amuse-bouche: Larry Porker & his friends 63   KINDNESS Jitan 71 Edith van Twist, failed soprano 76 Magnus Bjornbirgir, progressive Viking 81 The handbag 87 Amuse-bouche: Children & their parents 93   POIGNANCY Housemates 101 What happened three years later 105 The mathematician 112 Amuse-bouche: Life & its pitfalls 117   MEETING IN LIFTS Mr. Nariman Sodawaterwalla meets Leila Commissariat on the eighth floor of the Cricket Hotel, Mumbai 125 What happened to Phil Butters in the lift 132 Amuse-bouche: Geoff’s cat, Stanley 137   REVENGE On the way down 145 Clarence Macphail 148 Amuse-bouche: Life & its further pitfalls 153   SCHOOL LIFE & AN EDUCATIONAL ONE In the swimming pool 161 Boarding-school story 169 The cure 174 Amuse-bouche: Caesar & the world of Rome 181   FRIENDSHIP Four dentists go on holiday 189 Harry Brick 194 Amuse-bouche: More cats 199   STRANGENESS At the arachnophobia workshop 207 Enlistment 212 Lord Lucan, fugitive 216 Little Piggish 222

About the Author :
ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world. He lives in Scotland.

Review :
Praise for Alexander McCall Smith's Tiny Tales: "Whimsical. . . . Quirky and delightful." —Booklist (starred review) Praise for Alexander McCall Smith:  "McCall Smith's generous writing and dry humor, his gentleness and humanity, and his ability to evoke a place and a set of characters without caricature or condescension have endeared his books to readers." --The New York Times "A virtuoso storyteller." --The Scotsman "A writer who charms many readers . . . McCall Smith's characters are well drawn and alive." --The Providence Journal "McCall Smith's accomplished novels [are] dependent on small gestures redolent with meaning and main characters blessed with pleasing personalities." --Newsday


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780593316009
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Pantheon
  • Height: 179 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0593316002
  • Publisher Date: 04 May 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 301 gr


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