2014 sees publication of three new novels which fall into this area: 'The Forever Girl' 'Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party' and 'Emma' – a reworking of the classic Jane Austen novel. In addition to these series, Alexander writes stand-alone books.
#1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES#
This series won two major cross-media awards - Association of Online Publishers Digital Publishing Award 2009 for a Cross Media Project and the New Media Age award.
#1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIAL#
These include the Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in The Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series, and the Corduroy Mansions series, novels which started life as a delightful (but challenging to write) cross-media serial, written on the website of the Telegraph Media Group. Then, after the publication of his highly successful 'No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency' series, which has sold over twenty million copies, he devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers through the world. His career has been a varied one: for many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Precious and Grace is a story about being a detective, the complexities of human nature, as well as lessons about gratitude and obligation.Īlexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and most popular authors. Precious has a history of successfully solving cases, but this one proves difficult and throws up a number of surprises and challenges.īack in her office, next door to the Speedy Motors Garage on Twokleng Road, Precious also has a team to manage: Mr Polopetsi, a part-time science teacher and new assistant at the agency she mentors Charlie, a former apprentice and young man too handsome and charming for his own good - a man who has gotten himself in deep water and then there is Precious's tumultuous but heart-warming friendship with her co-director, the fiery Grace Makutsi. The woman wants to thank her for being such an important part of her life. This woman asks Precious to take on a case: to find the nursemaid who raised her during her childhood in Botswana. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - receives a visitor: a woman from Australia. One bright morning, Precious Ramotswe - head of Botswana's No.
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