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Tag: Alexander McCall Smith

Posted on December 30, 2015May 30, 2017

In which I undertake “Sketches by Boz”

My first post-Christmas read was Alexander McCall Smith’s charming The Sunday Philosophy Club. The novel is the first in the author’s Isabel Dalhousie series. I love discovering Edinburgh through his characters. I love how ruminative those characters are. I love his gentle wit and insights. Continue reading “In which I undertake “Sketches by Boz””

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