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I read a bit of this when I was living in The Gambia and it was certainly surprising. But, to be honest, I do not even know where to start and had to pointed in the right direction.

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Book Review Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith

Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency has no interest in football but is hired by the owner of the Kalhari Swoopers to investigate why his team seem to be losing all the time. She takes the… 2024-03-01

Book Review The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith

In this 9th instalment in the “No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” series Detective Precious Ramotswe is asked by a woman to find her mother. She relates that she was brought up by a couple who recently passed… 2024-02-25

Book Review The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith

Returning once again to Botswana we see Mme Ramotswe's, now, husband Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors looking to see what it is like to be a detective himself and proving himself a… 2023-11-04

Book Review Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

It is 1983, Zimbabwe and Robert Jacklin is attending a boarding school having moved there from England. Immediately Robert is immersed into the politics of the school initially befriending the unassuming… 2021-12-18

Book Review Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith

In this third novel of McCall Smith's “No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” we find Mr. Marekoni sole proprietor of of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors feeling out of sorts, wracked with guilt for an unspecified… 2021-11-21

Book Review Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith

I have read many of the “No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” books over the years (and enjoyed the BBC television series a few years ago) so I recently made a list of all of the books in the series to make… 2021-10-24

Book Review In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith

Another instalment in the ever-popular “Ladies' Detective Agency” books from Alexander McCall Smith sees Precious Ramotswe's life settling in quite well with business for her agency and a happy marriage… 2021-04-02

Book Review The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith

Another instalment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana as the story continues. Mma Ramotswe is now engaged to the best auto mechanic in Botswana: Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy…

2017-04-22

Book Review The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith

The fourth book in the ever-popular â€œNo. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyâ€ sees Precious Ramotswe's detective agency facing competition from the â€œSatisfactory Guaranteed Detective Agencyâ€ which is run by the…

2016-10-16

Book Review The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith

Mma Precious Ramotswe is missing her old truck now replaced with a shiny new one. Mysteriously the old truck reappears like a ghost throughout this latest instalment of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency…

2016-08-09

Book Review Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith

Mma Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is now married to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni mechanic and proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors (next door to her offices) who has taken on two…

2016-08-07

Book Review Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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