Beletrie

Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties (´the finest age to be´) she has a house, two adopted...

The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh...

Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life...

In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new set of...

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...

THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective...

THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective...

There are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate - when Mma Ramotswe's latest client is the big-shot owner of the Kalahari Swoopers - that one...

In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William French and his faithful canine Freddie are recruited...

Mma Ramötswe is the proud proprietor of the finest ladies detective agency in all Botswana (also the only one). She spends her time, with a cup of redbush tea beneath the acacia...

The traditionally built heroine of the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels may not rely on conventional methods, but Mma Ramotswe has warmth, wit and canny...

As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's big day begins, Violet Sephotho, her former rival for the affections of Phuti Radiphuti, is up to no good as usual. And will Mma Makutsi bury...