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Distracted by a new baby, philosophical sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is helping out at her niece’s deli. But soon she finds herself embroiled in customers’ problems, not least the true identity of the enigmatic Tony MacUspaig.

In this charming novel from the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, six-year-old Clover falls in love with her best friend James in their idyllic Cayman Island home. But will their love survive the complexities of adult life?

‘The world’s longest running serial novel’ continues, with young Bertie Pollock’s terrible mother back from the Middle East. Life was easy in her absence, now it’s no fun: there are extra classes after school – yoga, Italian and saxophone – and his father looks to be enamoured of another woman.

Ben and Fee MacTavish’s new school is the School Ship Tobermory, where young people train to be sailors, and this is its very first adventure: the meeting with the mysterious Albatross. Age 9+

The Tobermory sets sail for its second trip, an exploration of the Caribbean that is cut short when a new Tobermory recruit jumps ship and they follow him to the sinister Shark Island. Age 9+

When Precious Ramotswe discovers that her new friend Nancy has only a photograph and a necklace of carved zebras to remind her of her missing parents, the girls set off to find them. It is another case for Precious, the girl from the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, and an exciting adventure in the wilds of Botswana. Age 7+

From five old photographs, McCall Smith conjures five beguiling stories of love and friendship in very different settings: the Scottish Highlands, a travelling circus in Canada, an Australian gold-mining town, an Irish village and Edinburgh.

This Alexander McCall Smith double bill introduces two of his hugely popular series. In The Double Comfort Safari Club, we rejoin Precious Ramotswe in Botswana and another case for The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate is the second book in The Sunday Philosophy Club series and the second risky investigation for the Edinburgh philosopher Isabel Dalhousie. The two books are shrink-wrapped together.

In the continuing saga of 44 Scotland Street, Elspeth and Matthew worry over the order in which their triplets arrived; while Bertie Pollock, fed up with his father’s secret society and his mother’s neuroses, puts himself up for adoption on eBay.

In this tenth book in McCall Smith's hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series, Bertie Pollock is now seven years old and making the most of his freedom in Edinburgh while Irene, his terrible mother, is in the Gulf States – in a Bedouin harem.

Precious Ramotswe of the hugely popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels is still a schoolgirl in this story for young readers, which is also set in Botswana. A family's most valuable possession, their cow, has gone missing. Precious has a plan to find it, but she won't be able to solve the mystery on her own. Delightful illustrations complement the author's talent for spinning a tale rich in atmosphere and a sense of place. Age 7+