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Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the huge international phenomenon, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and The Sunday Philosophy Club series. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and he was a law professor at the University of Botswana and at Edinburgh University. He lives in Scotland, where in his spare time he is a bassoonist in the RTO (Really Terrible Orchestra).
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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).
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465 of 468 people found the following review helpful:
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The titles in this collectio are...,
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This review is from: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 5-Book Boxed Set (Paperback)
Nowhere in any description or review of this boxed set could I find a list of the books, so here they are: 1) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 2)Tears of the Giraffe 3)Morality for Beautiful Girls 4)The Kalahari Typing School for Men 5)The Full Cupboard of LifeThis is a wonderful collection; heartwarming, sweet, and simply written. One of the few series (along with Jan Karon's Mitford books and James Herriot's non-fiction veterinary set)suitable for young readers as well as adults. I highly recommend these books and hope that you read them soon!
46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
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Charm in a Botswanan setting,
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This review is from: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 5-Book Boxed Set (Paperback)
All of the books in this charming series, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith, are a delight. Although Precious Mambotswe, our heroine, is prepared to sensibly solve the problems clients bring to her, usually she is able to bring the client to be able to see how to solve the problem too.In these books, we see everyday situations and settings in this dry hot town in southern Africa come to life and love. I went out and bought a box of "red bush tea" since Precious got so much comfort from her regular cups of hot (Rooibos leaf) red bush tea. The crimes she investigates are more often domestic problems, seldom with any violence or gore. Each book in the series has some continuing characters, and some new ones. I think it's best to read the books in order, to know the characters better. rjlBrock, Aberdeen SD USA
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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Ramotswe's Botswana,
By LEPReconFaery "Faerie" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 5-Book Boxed Set (Paperback)
By all accounts, and indeed I agree with them, these books (Alexander McCall Smith surpasses even his Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld series) are excellent in style, writing, and literary worth. Yet what strikes me even more as I read them is how wonderfully he captures the true Africa.Have you ever been to Africa? I went only when I was three years old, yet the memory of it is still with me. Even that small visit at a young age has stayed with me, and enabled me to see how wonderfully Smith has captured Africa in his mystery series. They are just small things, idiosyncrasies, ways of thinking, details, yet they combine to paint a picture of Africa that takes me there as though I were sitting in the market again, eating sugarcane and listening to people around me chatter in Swahili. Smith should be congratulated not only for his wonderful writing and fascinating characterization, but his ability to take you into a world that you cannot even dream of. As he says at the end of his books... Africa Africa Africa Africa Africa Africa Africa Africa Africa ... my country, my place, my home.
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