

<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">THE
SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB SERIES</span></strong></p>

<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">As well as its incomparable
advantages decide Isabel Dalhousie, there are drawbacks to the enlightened
village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh. A village in which every
Saturday night ears burn at dinner parties across the city, and anyone
requiring the investigative abilities of a philosophical soul knows just where
to find him. Jillian McKinlay wife of a trustee of the illustrious Bishop Forbes
School- is the latest petitioner; she asks Isabel to look into a poison-pen
letter that makes insinuations about applicants for the position of principal.
Then Isabel^s niece Cat has another new boyfriend, hearty Gordon Leafers, a
mathematics teacher from Kelso, who seems too good to be true. And when a
pretty cellist with a tragic story takes a fancy to her husband-to-be, Isabel
finds herself contemplating an act of heroic and alarming self-sacrifice. Level-headed,
sharp-eyed, and judicious, Isabel Dalhousie picks her way through her latest set
of moral challenges and proves herself yet again to be one of Alexander McCall
Smith^s most lovable and enduring creations.</span></strong></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></strong></p>

<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Alexander
McCall Smith</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold" lang="EN-US"> was born on 24th August 1948 in Zimbabwe. He has published more than
fifty books, the best being The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, The
Sunday Philosophy Club, 44 Scotland Street, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, and
Corduroy Mansions, which have gained a huge name in many continents around the
world. In 2004, he was awarded the British Book Award’s Author of the Year and
Booksellers Association Author of the Year. In 2009, he donated his story Still
Life to Oxfam’s “Ox-Tales” project, which is an amalgamation of stories by 38
authors. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife.</span></strong></p>

