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What W.H. Auden Can Do for You

by Site Owner | Feb 17, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry

By Alexander McCall Smith Princeton University Press, $19.95, 137 pages How can an author with a terrific track record be embarrassed about the book he’s just written? Or how else to explain Alexander McCall Smith’s What W. H. Auden Can Do for You, an uncomfortable...

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

by Site Owner | Nov 13, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller

  Latest Botswana Adventures     By Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon, 256 pages, $24.95 Many writers, even very good ones, occasionally come up with a disappointing book or two. Alexander McCall Smith seems to be an exception – he manages to...

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