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by Alexander McCall Smith (Author), David Rintoul (Narrator)
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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio (1 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405503319
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405503310
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great fun!, 18 Feb 2008
By Stromata (Scottish Borders) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The World According to Bertie (44 Scotland Street) (Hardcover)
Another delightful volume of sketches from the lives of the inhabitants, past and present, of 44 Scotland Street, Edinburgh. The stories have a fair dash of local colour which is understandable given that the chapters were serialised in the Scotsman, but that should not put-off readers from Kidderminster or Kathmandu as the characters and storylines are pretty universal. All the usual suspects are here - indecisive Matthew; outrageous Angus; put-upon Big Lou; bullying Bruce; poor six year old Bertie, whose every waking minute is organised by his overbearing mother - and more.

Great story-telling - very amusing, occasionally acerbic but never unkind. A good, uplifting read. How does he do it?
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42 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Master Returns, 3 Aug 2007
By Mr. Alan J. Milton (Meppershall Beds UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World According to Bertie (44 Scotland Street) (Hardcover)
Bertie is back, with all the usual crowd and a pawbiting Cyril the gold toothed canine anti-hero plot to boot.
Sandy McCall Smith although best known for his 1st Ladies Dective Agency series, always hits the spot with 44 Scotland Street.
If you live in Edinburgh, you will recognise many of the places and probably some of the characters.
For those who don't know is that the books are first serialised in the "Scotsman Newspaper" similar to Dickens and The Times and then collated into an exellent volumes, amply illustrated by Iain McIntosh.
Roll on the next volume,if you have not read any of the earlier volumes go and buy them, pull up a comfy chair, some single malt and lose yourself to some quality plots,then when you have read them, go out and buy the Isobel Dalhousie trilogy, you will thank me for telling you
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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars an absolute delight , 10 Sep 2007
By Atia (Rochester, Kent) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The World According to Bertie (44 Scotland Street) (Hardcover)
The 44 Scotland Street series is just perfection..somehow the books manage to be very funny and insightful, as well as quite calming. This latest installment does not disappointment, and quite rightly the focus is now on Bertie, who is still being smothered by his awful mother. If you haven't read them yet, go and get the first one, and work your way through - the books are wonderful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The continuing story....
Alexander McCall Smith brings all the now familiar characters into sharp focus in this, the continuing story of the residents of Scotland Street. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Susan

4.0 out of 5 stars Scotland Street
Alexander McCall Smith never lets me down, I have followed the progress of Bertie and the other characters before, I enjoy his style and humour and if you have read any of the... Read more
Published 4 months ago by R. Gardner

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly addictive
The whole series is a joy and delight. Reading a single one of these books is like eating one peanut. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. Luke D. Fitzgerald

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent observations
This is yet another excellent book from Alexander McCall Smith. He observes the minutiae of Edinburgh life and reproduces it in the characters in such detail and with such... Read more
Published 7 months ago by scotpics

3.0 out of 5 stars McCall Smith back on top form
Well, it seems hard to believe but already we're on to the fourth in this series. I can hardly manage to read McCall Smith's various series as quickly as he can write them. Read more
Published 7 months ago by The story fiend

2.0 out of 5 stars Only Bertie
I picked up the next book in the series of 44 Scotland Street in the hope that I thought it would get better. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Joanne D'Arcy

1.0 out of 5 stars Probably a Great Read in a Newspaper
Maybe one of the earlier Reviews is correct when advising to read the other books before attempting this one: I guess that advice must be true because this turned out to be a... Read more
Published 11 months ago by A. Knox

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Reading!
Alexander McCall Smith is a wonderful writer and this book is a further instalment in his 44 Scotland Street series, and every bit as interesting as the previous instalments. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Magnum fortyfour

5.0 out of 5 stars Perpetually Six, Bertie Shows More Maturity Than the Adults

Please, if you haven't read any of the novels in the 44 Scotland Street series, you should immediately go order and read 44 Scotland Street and then move on to... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Professor Donald Mitchell

5.0 out of 5 stars "Bertie wanted...to be the average boy, but he knew that this would forever be beyond his reach--[because of] his mother."
(4.5 stars) Alexander McCall Smith always succeeds in charming his readers with warm and humorous tales of almost normal life, lived by people who care about each other and share... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mary Whipple

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