A Guide to the Birds of East Africa Colin Dexter Sister Philomena strains against the

Sister Philomena strains against the monotony of convent life and the pettiness of her fellow nuns

1979Maggie Thatcher is prime minister

charming and utterly wonderful on the subject of birds' Metro

illustrated throughout with marvellously imaginative black and white illustrations

November 1917

A Guide to the Birds of East Africa Colin Dexter Sister Philomena strains against theFor lovers of Alexander McCall Smith, Nicholas Drayson introduces the charming Mr Malik and the East African Ornithological Society in A Guide to the Birds of East Africa. Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb over but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lie a warm heart and a secret passion. Not even his closest friends know it, but Mr Malik is head over