Calculator Annie [Paperback]

Alexander McCall Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 23, 1992

No matter how hard Annie tries, she just cannot do even the simplest sums. Until one day, that is, when she goes to sleep with a calculator under her pillow, and a strange thing happens.

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About the Author

Alexander McCall Smith is professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the author of over fifty books. These range from adult fiction to specialist titles, such as Forensic Aspects of Sleep, to a wide selection of children's books. In 1999 The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was published. This book quickly became a bestseller and was voted one of the 'International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement. In America the success of the series was instant with sales exceeding two million in the USA alone. Winner of three Author of the Year awards in 2004 (British Book Awards, Booksellers' Association and Waterstone's), Bloomsbury Publishing are very proud and excited to be re-publishing Alexander's key children's books. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Young Corgi (April 23, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552526649
• ISBN-13: 978-0552526647
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces

More About the Author

Alexander McCall Smith was born in what is now Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He is now Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He has written more than fifty books, including a number of specialist titles, but is best known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has achieved bestseller status on four continents. In 2004 he was awarded British Book Awards Author of the Year and Booksellers Association Author of the Year. He lives in Scotland, where in his spare time he is a bassoonist in the RTO (Really Terrible Orchestra).