‘When you write fiction you are creating a world that is in some sense real. That has tremendous implications’ - Chris Watt Alexander McCall Smith gets to it before I can. “Readers sometimes point out ...

Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features Bernie Gunther’s final appearance in Berlin and introduces a delightfully eccentric Swedish sleuth. By Marilyn Stasio Three books on the land, people and culture ...

Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith’s Edinburgh-set Isabel Dalhousie series of novels — also known as the “The Sunday Philosophy Club” series — is being brought to the small screen.

Why are the novels so popular? The heroine of that series is a woman who is kind, understanding and intuitive. There is no crime in those books – Mma Ramotswe is, rather, a person who helps others ...

LONDON, United Kingdom, July 7 (UNHCR) - Mma Ramotswe, Isabel Dalhousie and the eccentric inhabitants of the Corduroy Mansions have become much-loved literary characters for millions of readers ...

Smith’s breezy latest outing for Botswanan sleuths Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi (after From a Far and Lovely Country) finds the pair digging into the operations of a struggling hotel. While Mma ...

In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladies and others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an ...

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