I love Alexander McCall Smith's stories about Mma Ramotswe's No1 Ladies' Detective Agency and the varous people she and her husband Mr JLB Matekoni - in his own business, Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors - employ are all enjoyable characters in their own right, like a collection of broken winged birds, they are all helped back to self esteem and independence by the redoubtable Precious Ramotswe and her endearing husband. The Double Comfort Safari Club is the latest of the novels in the series and the style remains the same - plodding, dependable and thoroughly enjoyable and un-putdownable! McCall Smith makes me yearn to visit Botswana, where life seems to be ...  Read the complete review

The Double Comfort Safari Club is the 11th book of the best selling series, the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith. McCall Smith is the author of over 60 books on a wide range of subjects. A former Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, he has now also written the 44 Scotland Street and Isabel Dalhousie series, and more recently a new series Corduroy Mansions set in London. You can read installments of the 44 Scotland Street series in the paper edition of the Scotsman newspaper when they are serialized prior to book publication. The Corduroy Mansions series is serialised in the Daily Telegraph, in the paper edition and ...  Read the complete review