Abacus

Book Reviews

• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
  - Botswana's only female private investigator at work
• *Old Filth (Jane Gardam)
  - from Raj orphan to barrister and judge
• On History (Eric Hobsbawm)
  - and history's connections to politics and society; 20 pieces
• The Oxford Murders (Guillermo Martinez)
  - a serial killer with a mathematical bent
• *The Wrench (Primo Levi)
  - superb fiction about the life of an Italian working man