The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Reviews

Hello today I would like share my experience reading No1 Ladies Detective Agency book, I read the book while I was at work , it was left on top of the TV in our rest room and the red cover of the book drew my attention and then I began reading. The book was about a African lady reaching her goal in life. The female was called Precious ...

Like many I had heard of the popular No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series but had not got round to reading any of them. At the time I started reading them there were only four of five books in the series, although at the time of writing there are now eight. Being a stickler for reading such things in the right order (if not necessarily reviewing ...

I had heard quite a bit about The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, but had never really been interested in reading it. Then I saw a TV interview with the author Alexander McCall Smith. One thing he said really intrigued me. To paraphrase, he said people had enough worries in their lives, so he wrote books that were generally upbeat and ...

This is how the New York Times Book review described Alexander McCall Smith's unique creation of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's first female detective and owner of her own agency, bought with money left to her by her late father. And this is where the story begins, with her sitting in her new agency with her efficient secretary and a second hand ...

WHAT'S THIS THEN? ------------------------------ It's the first in a series of books by Alexander McCall Smith about Precious Ramotswe, the only female private detective in Botswana. She is, by Smith's admission, overweight, overbearing and underloved but in Africa and especially Botswana this is a look considered sexy and desirable by ...

Faced with a long train journey to London a week or so back, I asked my work colleague to recommend a good book I could take with me: something light, both to carry and in subject! She brought 'The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency' by Alexander McCall Smith to work the following day, along with the second book in the series 'Tears of the ...

Precious Ramotswe would like to be the Miss Marple of the African continent. When her father dies, she does as he has asked ? as any good daughter would ? and sets up a business. Mma Ramotswe's business is not exactly the one her father had imagined, though. Precious sets up the very first ladies' ...

Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. Browsing through Waterstone’s 3 for 2 offers I was magically drawn to ‘The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’. You can see a (bad) reproduction at the top of the site: the colours and the design have an ethno touch, the bush hut in the upper part and the crocodile in the lower ...