Title In This Collection The Importance of Being Seven THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BERTIE Love Over Scotland The Importance of Being Seven The story of Bertie & his dysfunctional family continues in this sixth instalment alongside the familiar cast of favourites Big Lou Domenica Angus Lordie Cyril & others in their daily pursuit of a little happiness With customary charm & deftness Alexander Mc Call Smith has yet again given us a clever witty & utterly delightful new novel THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BERTIE The World According to Bertie is the fourth in the series & revolves around the many colourful characters that come & go at No 44 Scotland Street Mc Call Smith handles the characters with his customary charm & deftness the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor the pushy mother & most importantly in this novel the beleaguered Italianspeaking prodigy Bertie This is classic Mc Call Smith clever witty & entertaining & beautifully illustrated Love Over Scotland This just in from Edinburgh the complicated lives of the denizens of 44 Scotland Street are becoming no simpler Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to conduct a perilous anthropological study of pirate households Angus Lordies dog Cyril has been stolen & is facing an uncertain future wandering the streets Bertie the prodigiously talented sixyearold is still enduring psychotherapy but his burden is lightened by a junior orchestras trip to Paris where he makes some interesting new friends Back in Edinburgh there is romance for Pat with a handsome young man called Wolf until she begins to see the attractions of the more prosaically named Matthew