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Lots of things were passed off in one way or another, and now, as he stood before the bathroom mirror, he wondered. This novel is set in a london residential section and a building complex called corduroy mansions. The building is a lovely crumbling mansion block, and just like corduroy fabric it is slightly worn but still sturdy, and ever so comforting. In the first series, the author wrote a chapter a day, starting on 15 sep 2008, the series running for 20 weeks and totalling 100 episodes. Aside from being a novelist, he also writes medical law and bioethics nonfiction books.
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In corduroy mansions, rather than focusing on one individual as he does in his isabel dalhousie series, smith introduces a cast of more than a dozen characters all in some way associated with a particular threeflat building in the pimlico section of london. Middleaged wine merchant william is trying to convince his reluctant 24yearold son, eddie, to leave the nest. The fine, but crucial line between friendship and romance has become somewhat blurred to fine art graduate caroline, and over at the ragg porter literary agency a business rivalry leads to an unseemly tussle over the ownership of autobiography of a yeti. Alexander mccall smith on corduroy mansions when i started writing serial novels in newspapers six years ago, i had no idea that the whole business would rapidly. The full cupboard of life 2003 in the company of cheerful ladies 2004 blue. This is the first volume in a new series by alexander mccall smith, somewhat reminiscent of his 44 scotland street books, but set in london. An expert on ethics and bioethics, he was educated at christian brothers college before earning a ph. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world. Jun 25, 2009 and now, for all those who missed it online, the 100 instalments of mccall smiths corduroy mansions have been collected into one complete novel. Corduroy mansions series alexander mccall smith a cast of charming eccentrics make their home in corduroy mansions, a handsome, though slightly dilapidated, apartment block in londons hip pimlico neighborhood. My initial foray into this genre of fiction began after a conversation with armistead maupin, author of tales of the city, which was a saga of life in san francisco. Corduroy mansions is a series of novels written by alexander mccall smith which delve into the lives of the men and women who live in a crumbling mansion block in london. Enter, stage left or in this case, online alexander mccall smith.
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