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Smith, Alexander McCall Blue Shoes and Happiness
Anchor March 13, 2007 1-4000-7571-8 / 9781400075713 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: The seventh entry in the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series (after 2005's In the Company of Cheerful Ladies) reaffirms Smith's considerable gifts as a writer. His familiar characters offer further facets of their personalities, and their gentle, tolerant approach to life remains a refreshing contrast to most fictional figures, let alone those populating most mysteries. The author's love for his creations and for his Botswana setting are evident on every page. While the plot will be of secondary importance to fans of Precious Ramotswe, the "traditionally-built," self-taught private detective, and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, Smith presents them with several mysteries, including the search for the identity of a blackmailer and the source of malaise at a nearby game reserve. Ramotswe's intuition and understanding enable her to find the truth, while dispensing justice according to her own personal dictates. Even newcomers will be charmed by this wonderful novel, with its skillful blend of humor and pathos, and will doubtless rush to catch up with the earlier books.
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Smith, Alexander McCall No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Abacus July 7, 2005 0-349-11908-2 / 9780349119083 Paperback Very Good
'The author's prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision.' A nthony Daniels, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Everything about [McCall Smith] is appeal ing. He's just full of delight - it just bubbles out of him' SUNDAY HERALD 'A rare pleasure' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A publishing phenomenon' GUARDIAN 'Indee d, the effort involved would have been justified by just one of them, THE N O.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY' Gerald Kaufman, Chairman of the 1999 BOOKER P rize Jury 'The beauty of the land, the people, the colours and smells are c onveyed with such warmth that you find yourself laughing and crying instead of, as so often, hardening your heart against the seeming hopelessness of an entire continent. I can think of no author save Dickens who achieved suc h an effect, and no author writing today so deserving of an enormous audien ce.' NEW STATESMAN 'This crime novel is in a category of its own...Precious Ramotswe herself is unforgettable... But if Precious is the heroine of thi s gem of a series, then Botswana is its hero. Rarely in fiction, has a coun try been depicted so lovingly.' GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Creating a genuinely origi nal character in an already overcrowded field of crime fiction is no mean f eat. But in a genre crowded with wisecracking mavericks, recovering alcohol ics with anger-management problems and kick-boxing female FBI agents, it's fair to say that in Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's finest- and only- woman d etective, McCall Smith has broken the mould.' OBSERVER
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Smith, Alexander McCall Precious and the Puggies: Precious Ramotsweā??s Very First Case
Black & White Publishing March 2011 1-84502-332-3 / 9781845023324 Paperback As New
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: This is a brand new book for younger readers, telling the story of the girlhood adventures of Precious Ramotswe, founder of the No. 1 Ladies? Detective Agency. Written by one of the world?s favorite authors, Alexander McCall Smith, and translated into Scots by award winning author, James Robertson. The Scots is simple and accessible, and a glossary is provided for those not familiar with Scots words.
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Smith, Alexander McCall Tears of the Giraffe
Knopf Publishing Group September 2002 1-4000-3135-4 / 9781400031351 Paperback Near Fine
The No.1 Ladies“ Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe -the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana“s only detectiv e agency. In Tears of the Giraffe Mma Ramotswe faces a new challenge: resol ving a mother“s pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Mm a Ramotswe“s own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma“s secretary to the dizzy heights of Assis tant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.
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Smith, Alexander McCall The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Anchor 2008 0-349-11773-X / 9780349117737 Paperback Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: 'Simple, elegantly written and gently insightful' THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Perf ect escapist fiction' THE TIMES 'There is a timelessness to the tales, yet they are also of the moment ... His talent is to see the god in small thing s' SUNDAY TIMES SCOTLAND 'This is delicious, light-hearted stuff and I love it - my only criticism is that these books are just not long enough' THE L ADY 'Nothing will dim the charm of McCall Smith's series, with its portrait s of goodness, its sorrow over greed and its profound love of Africa. They are among the greatest comfort-reads of all time, written in plain, elegant prose' Amanda Craig, INDEPENDENT 'Simple, elegantly written and gently ins ightful' THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Perfect escapist fiction' THE TIMES 'There is a timelessness to the tales, yet they are also of the moment ... His talen t is to see the god in small things' SUNDAY TIMES SCOTLAND 'This is delicio us, light-hearted stuff and I love it - my only criticism is that these boo ks are just not long enough' THE LADY Sunday Times Scotland 'There is a timelessness to the tales, yet they are also of the moment'
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Smith, Alexander Mccall The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Anchor March 9, 2004 1-4000-3180-X / 9781400031801 Paperback Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: The fourth appearance of Precious Ramotswe, protagonist of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and two sequels, is once again a charming account of the everyday challenges facing a female private detective in Botswana. In his usual unassuming style, McCall Smith takes up Ramotswe's story soon after the events described in Tears of the Giraffe. Precious and her fiance, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, still have not set a wedding date, but they continue to nurture the sibling orphans in their care, as well as the entrepreneurial ambitions of Precious's assistant, Mma Makutsi, who sets out to open a typing school for men. Along the way, Ramotswe handles a few cases and negotiates the arrival of a rival detective in Gaborone. The competition, a sexist detective who boasts of New York City street smarts, proves a delicious foil to his distaff counterpart. A moral component enters the story in the person of a successful engineer who wishes to atone for his past sins. He enlists Ramotswe to help him find the woman he has wronged, and this case comes to a satisfying yet hardly sentimental conclusion. But the real appeal of this slender novel is Ramotswe's solid common sense, a proficient blend of folk wisdom, experience and simple intelligence. She is a bit of a throwback to the days of courtesy and manners, and casts disapproving glances at the apprentices in her fiance's auto shop who obsess about girls instead of garage protocol. A dose of easy humor laces the pages, as McCall Smith throws in wry observations, effortlessly commenting on the vagaries his protagonist encounters as she negotiat
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Smith, Alexander McCall The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Abacus February 26, 20 0-349-11704-7 / 9780349117041 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: The fourth appearance of Precious Ramotswe, protagonist of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and two sequels, is once again a charming account of the everyday challenges facing a female private detective in Botswana. In his usual unassuming style, McCall Smith takes up Ramotswe's story soon after the events described in Tears of the Giraffe. Precious and her fiance, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, still have not set a wedding date, but they continue to nurture the sibling orphans in their care, as well as the entrepreneurial ambitions of Precious's assistant, Mma Makutsi, who sets out to open a typing school for men. Along the way, Ramotswe handles a few cases and negotiates the arrival of a rival detective in Gaborone. The competition, a sexist detective who boasts of New York City street smarts, proves a delicious foil to his distaff counterpart. A moral component enters the story in the person of a successful engineer who wishes to atone for his past sins. He enlists Ramotswe to help him find the woman he has wronged, and this case comes to a satisfying yet hardly sentimental conclusion. But the real appeal of this slender novel is Ramotswe's solid common sense, a proficient blend of folk wisdom, experience and simple intelligence. She is a bit of a throwback to the days of courtesy and manners, and casts disapproving glances at the apprentices in her fiance's auto shop who obsess about girls instead of garage protocol. A dose of easy humor laces the pages, as McCall Smith throws in wry observations, effortlessly commenting on the vagaries his protagonist encounters as she negotiat
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Smith, Alexander McCall The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Anchor February 6, 200 1-4000-3477-9 / 9781400034772 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause gen re aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith create s an African detective, Precious Ramotswe, who's their full-fledged heir. It's the detective as folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-pos sessed wisdom that, combined with an understanding of human nature, invaria bly penetrates into the heart of a puzzle. If Miss Marple were fat and joll y and lived in Botswana--and decided to go against any conventional notion of what an unmarried woman should do, spending the money she got from selli ng her late father's cattle to set up a Ladies' Detective Agency--then you have an idea of how Precious sets herself up as her country's first female detective. Once the clients start showing up on her doorstep, Precious enjo ys a pleasingly successful series of cases. But the edge of the Kalahari is not St. Mary Mead, and the sign Precious or ders, painted in brilliant colors, is anything but discreet. Pointing in th e direction of the small building she had purchased to house her new busine ss, it reads "THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY. FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTE RS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES. UNDER PERSONAL M ANAGEMENT." The solutions she comes up with, whether in the case of the clinic doctor with two quite different personalities (depending on the day of the week), or the man who had joined a Christian sect and seemingly vanished, or the kidnapped boy whose bones may or may not be t
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Smith, Alexander McCall The Right Attitude to Rain : An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
ABACUS 2007 0-349-11805-1 / 9780349118055 Paperback Very Good
** 'Isabel is an appealing character, always trying to work out the right t hing to do, and McCall Smith presents her with a series of dilemmas This is an unconventional novel, in which the power of emotion to cloud human inte lligence takes precedence, but it is shot through with a gentle humanism th at will delight McCall Smith's admirers' SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Delightful ... Mc Call Smith is a writer who celebrates kindness, in short supply in the worl d today'
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Smith, Alexander McCall The Sunday Philosophy Club
Little Brown Publishers and 0-316-72956-6 / 9780316729567 Paperback Near Fine
The Herald 'Vintage McCall Smith, written with a characteristic twinkle in his eye and the graceful clarity of an aesthetically attuned lawyer.' The Herald 'Sets up Isabel Dalhousie as Edinburgh's latest, and most engaging investigator.' The Herald
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