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. Pounds 7.64 (0870 165 0870) The 21/2 Pillars Of Wisdom, by Alexander McCall Smith Abacus Pounds 8.99 *** This witty trilogy of novels follows the adventures of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, a German academic whose claim to fame lies in his authorship of the definitive study of Portuguese irregular verbs. The professor's grasp of everyday reality unfortunately falls to match his intellectual brilliance, and most of the mishaps that befall him arise from a chronic deficiency of common sense.
The books are unlikely to match the popularity of McCall Smith's hugely successful No1 Ladies Detective Agency series as they depend for effect on a succession of dry academic and literary in-jokes, but they are periodically very amusing.See the full content of this document
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