Which country is the setting for Alexander McCall Smith's series of novels 'The No 1. Ladies' Detective Agency'?
"The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon is the fourteenth mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, first published in 2013. The novel features the Motswana protagonist Precious Ramotswe and is set in Botswana. Mma Ramotswe has two cases on hand, one to verify the identity of a boy as the heir to a large farm and the other to stop the smear campaign against the owner of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, as it has stopped all customers from coming to her shop. Grace Makutsi is pregnant, but does"
"Alexander McCall Smith R. Alexander ""Sandy"" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British-Zimbabwean writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues. He has since become internationally known as a writer of fiction, with sales of English-language versions exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is most widely known as the creator of ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" series. ""McCall"" is"
"setting for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, a series of popular mystery novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Their protagonist, Precious Ramotswe, lives in Gaborone. The first novel in the series, ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"", appeared in 1998 in the UK (and 2001 in the US). The light-hearted books are appreciated for their human interest and local colour. A BBC Television series adaption of the same name has been shot with a pilot appearing on 23 March 2008 in the United Kingdom, and the full series starting on 15 March 2009. Norman Rush, who served as a Peace"
"the lead role in the BBC/HBO series ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. In 2015, she released her fifth album, ""Woman."" Scott was born on April 4, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up an only child in a North Philadelphia neighborhood, raised by her mother, Joyce Scott and grandmother. She recalls a happy childhood and was ""very much a loved child"". Scott was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. After graduating the Philadelphia High School for Girls, Scott attended Temple University. While working two jobs, she studied secondary"
"supply, schools and recreational facilities. All the staff of the local administration expect District Administration are selected via Unified Local Government Services (ULGS) and the Ministry of Local Government is responsible for their training, deployment and career development. The district has no sub-districts. Kgatleng District Kgatleng is one of the districts of Botswana, coterminous with the homeland of the Bakgatla people. Its capital is Mochudi, the hometown of protagonist Precious Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's popular ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" series. According to the 2001 Census, Kgatleng had a population of 73,507 people. Kgatleng borders the North West"
"The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection is the thirteenth mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith in ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" series, first published in 2012. The story is set primarily in Gaborone. with Motswana Precious Ramotswe as the main detective. In this novel, Precious Ramotswe is faced with serious problems among two who are very close to her, Mma Potokwane of the orphan farm and young Fanwell, assistant mechanic in her husband's garage. Besides help from her assistant, Mma Makutsi, both are aided by none other than the author of their well-used"
"Kgatleng District Kgatleng is one of the districts of Botswana, coterminous with the homeland of the Bakgatla people. Its capital is Mochudi, the hometown of protagonist Precious Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's popular ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" series. According to the 2001 Census, Kgatleng had a population of 73,507 people. Kgatleng borders the North West Province of South Africa in the south, and to the east it borders South Africa's Limpopo Province. Domestically, it borders South-East District in southwest, Kweneng District in the west, Central District in north. The tourist and game reserves in the region are Oodi"
"portrait of the human condition lingers"". This novel was on the ""New York Times"" hardcover fiction best seller list in 2012. The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection is the thirteenth mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith in ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" series, first published in 2012. The story is set primarily in Gaborone. with Motswana Precious Ramotswe as the main detective. In this novel, Precious Ramotswe is faced with serious problems among two who are very close to her, Mma Potokwane of the orphan farm and young Fanwell, assistant mechanic in her"
"44 Scotland Street 44 Scotland Street is an episodic novel by Alexander McCall Smith, the author of ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"". The story was first published as a serial in ""The Scotsman"", starting 26 January 2004, every weekday, for six months. The book retains the 100+ short chapters of the original. It was partially influenced by Armistead Maupin’s ""Tales of the City"", a famous serial story. It is the first book in a series of the same name. The series now has 12 books, as of Dec 2017. The novel tells the story of Pat, a student during"
"he makes on it at auction he moves to London and puts the flat at 44 Scotland Street up for sale. Espresso Tales Espresso Tales is a novel by Alexander McCall Smith, the author of ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"". The story was first published as a serial novel in The Scotsman, like its predecessor, ""44 Scotland Street"". The book retains the 100+ short chapters of the original. The novel continues to follow Pat Macgregor, a student who has taken a second gap year and who is unsure about her future direction, and the lives of her friends, roommates"
"Espresso Tales Espresso Tales is a novel by Alexander McCall Smith, the author of ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"". The story was first published as a serial novel in The Scotsman, like its predecessor, ""44 Scotland Street"". The book retains the 100+ short chapters of the original. The novel continues to follow Pat Macgregor, a student who has taken a second gap year and who is unsure about her future direction, and the lives of her friends, roommates and fellow tenants at 44 Scotland Street. Pat is still sharing a flat with Bruce, the good-looking egoist, although she is"
"operators, fearsome crocodiles and disgruntled hippopotamuses. What is more, Mma Makutsi still has not set a date for her wedding to Phuti Radiphuti and is feeling rather tetchy herself, not least because of Phuti's possessive aunt. But Precious knows that with a little patience, just as the wide river will gently make its way round any obstacle, so will everything work out for the best in the end. The Double Comfort Safari Club The Double Comfort Safari Club, published in 2010, is the eleventh in ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in"
"standalone films, with network executives reviewing the first script. Despite these announcements, no further information was released, and in August 2012 it was announced that HBO had decided not to move forward with production. The show's producers are believed to be looking for a new network for the project, but at this stage it remains cancelled. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV series) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a television comedy-drama series, produced by the BBC in conjunction with HBO, and based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. The novels focus on"
"from the Wisconsin Public Radio program, ""To the Best of Our Knowledge"", the first novel """"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"", was a surprise hit [in Scotland], receiving two special Booker citations and a place on the Times Literary Supplement's International Books of the Year and the Millennium list."" The success in Scotland and the favorable critical notice did not speed publishers to release it in the USA. ""American publishers were slow to take an interest, and by the time ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" was picked up by Pantheon Books, Smith had already written two sequels. The books"
"""""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"", was a surprise hit [in Scotland], receiving two special Booker citations and a place on the Times Literary Supplement's International Books of the Year and the Millennium list."" The UK success did not speed publishers to release it in the USA. ""American publishers were slow to take an interest, and by the time ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" was picked up by Pantheon Books, Smith had already written two sequels. The books went from underground hits to national phenomena in the United States, spawning fan clubs and inspiring celebratory reviews."" ""In the Company"
"Corduroy Mansions Corduroy Mansions is the first online novel by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. In the first series, the author wrote a chapter a day, starting on 15 Sep 2008, the series running for 20 weeks and totalling 100 episodes. The daily chapters, read by Andrew Sachs were also available as an audio download. The second and third series were published online, running from Monday 21 September 2009 and Monday 13 September 2010, respectively. The concept for ""Corduroy Mansions"" is based on Charles Dickens’ episodic writing – which were novels serialised through"
"2010. Corduroy Mansions Corduroy Mansions is the first online novel by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. In the first series, the author wrote a chapter a day, starting on 15 Sep 2008, the series running for 20 weeks and totalling 100 episodes. The daily chapters, read by Andrew Sachs were also available as an audio download. The second and third series were published online, running from Monday 21 September 2009 and Monday 13 September 2010, respectively. The concept for ""Corduroy Mansions"" is based on Charles Dickens’ episodic writing – which were novels serialised"
"A Conspiracy of Friends A Conspiracy of Friends is the third online novel by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. In the first series, the author wrote a chapter a day, starting from 15 September 2008, and the series ran for 20 weeks, totalling 100 episodes. The daily chapters, read by Andrew Sachs, were also available as an audio download. The second and third series were published online, running from Monday 21 September 2009 and Monday 13 September 2010, respectively. The concept for the ""Corduroy Mansions"" series is based on Charles Dickens’ episodic writing,"
"trust and mercy but also tolerance. Ramotswe's musings are as insightful as they are understated: ""It's interesting how we can look at things and think we see something, when it really isn't there at all."" Entertaining and enlightening, Smith's beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency saga is simply precious."" The ""Booklist Review"" says that this series ""continue[s] to resonate with poignancy, wisdom, and wit"" and considers this series to be McCall Smith's ""love letter to a country whose salubrious climate is matched by the warmth and humanity of its people."" ""Publishers Weekly"" reviewed the audio book issued at the same"
"fifth in a series, but the first to be readily available in England, via the success of the series in America. ""This novel by an eminent Scottish law professor about a woman detective in Botswana is the fifth in a series, the other four having largely escaped English attention (and availability). The Scots have had better luck: they've known about McCall Smith for several years, but it has taken his extraordinary and unexpected success in the US for word to have filtered back to England that he's a treasure of a writer whose books deserve immediate devouring."" In an item"
"of a culture that threatens and terrorizes women. The action takes place in Tangier, Morocco, at the pension Cypress during October 1958. ""The story follows the path of a naive young American reporter, Lizzy Holmes, who goes to Morocco to write about the status of women. Becoming involved with the shady inhabitants of her hotel, she discovers the insidious world of those who deal in buying and selling young girls for profit. Hampered by her own seduction into relationships she doesn't fully understand and sinking into drug addiction, Lizzy becomes a victim herself."" In the Cypress' courtyard, the maître d'hôtel,"
"Washington DC, (where he is reunited with MI-5 liaison officer Agnes Algar), and from there to New York City, the American Midwest and finally to East Berlin, as he unravels a conspiracy of massive proportions, which threatens to overthrow not only the British government, but all hopes for peace in Europe. Algar is relaxed and confident when she trades sex for secret information (""gave her little all for her Service"" is Lyall's quaint phrase), but her first time with Maxim is a disappointment. The Crocus List Crocus List is a third person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first"
"not a middle name: his two-part surname is ""McCall Smith"". Alexander McCall Smith was born in Bulawayo in 1948 in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), the youngest of four children. His father worked as a public prosecutor in Bulawayo. McCall Smith was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before moving to Scotland at age 17 to study law at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his PhD in law. He soon taught at Queen's University Belfast, and while teaching there he entered a literary competition: one a children's book and the other a novel"
"a feeling of fable, combined with an utter and truthful sense of place, of belonging. ""The Sunday Times"" found the story ""lacking in narrative drive"" and concluded that ""...some readers may wish to escape to somewhere a little more invigorating"". In 2004, the year of the novel's publication, Alexander McCall Smith won the Author of the Year award at the British Book Awards and the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library award, both for the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. This was the first of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels to be printed in hardback, with"
"was noted as ""one of the three works of literature most cited in the American media"" two weeks after the September 11 attacks. Set in London in 1886, the novel follows the life of Adolf Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie. Stevie has a mental disability, possibly autism, which causes him to be excitable; his sister, Verloc's wife, attends to him, treating him more as a son than as a brother. Verloc's friends are"
"that blows the lid off of the Reagan illusion to raise eyebrows on both sides of the big screen. “Black and white photos liberally pepper an account of the careers of all three and the lasting shock of their stormy relationships in a delightful pursuit especially recommended for any who relish Hollywood gossip.” FROMMER COUNTRY AND STATE GUIDES TO: Anguilla, Aruba, Austria, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire and Curaçao, the British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, the Cayman Islands, Denmark, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, England, Finland, France, Georgia (USA), Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Grenada, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Jamaica, Maine, Martinique &"
"location set in the province of Quebec, with Penny setting up the characters using the history of old Canada to show their personalities and backgrounds. In the series, a few of the plots are set outside of Three Pines. The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache book series contains little or no sex or violence and has been referred to as a kinder and gentler alternative to modern crime fiction. There are a total of 14 books in the series, all published by Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. The first book was released in 2005, in the U.S., with"
"of Birmingham, England. The main events of the novel take place in Green Oaks shopping centre. The first part of the novel is set in 1984. A 10-year-old girl called Kate Meaney frequently plays in the newly opened Green Oaks. She pretends to be a detective, observing and following people. She carries her toy monkey Mickey and a notebook with her. Kate vanishes and Adrian, the 22-year-old son of a newsagent, is the prime suspect in her disappearance. He is hounded by the press and the police. Unable to handle the pressure, he disappears. The novel's narrative moves forward to"
"Canada (often Toronto), the United States, Paris and Vienna. Several involve miscarriages of justice: either an innocent person convicted or no-one convicted. Two stories in ""Not Safe After Dark"": ""Missing in Action"" and ""In Flanders Fields"" are set in wartime (1940s) Yorkshire with Frank Bascombe a ""special constable in the war"" and veteran of World War I. They were written after researching the period for In a Dry Season. The story ""Cornelius Jubb"" in ""The Price of Love"" was intended as the third and refers to ""Constable Bascombe"", although he could not use the full name Frank Bascombe in that"
"novels in England came after their popularity in the US. The novels have been reviewed other languages than the original English; for example, this generally favorable review of the series up to the novel published in 2014, ""The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café"", in a Czech online magazine: ""Alexander McCall Smith, however, can enrich the stories of his everyday heroes with a profoundly human understanding of man's weaknesses"". In 2004, the year of the sixth novel's publication, Alexander McCall Smith won the Author of the Year award at the British Book Awards and the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the"
"Adjoa Andoh Adjoa Andoh (born 14 January 1963) is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre, and is a familiar face on British television, notably in two series of ""Doctor Who"" as companion Martha's mother Francine Jones, 90 episodes of the BBC's long-running medical drama ""Casualty"" as Staff Nurse (later Sister) Colette Griffiths (née Kierney) and a year in the BBC's ""EastEnders"". Andoh is the voice of Alexander McCall Smith's ""No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency"";"
"solves three cases, and meets important new people, her secretary Grace Makutsi and good friend, the excellent mechanic, Mr JLB Matekoni. The novel was first published in Scotland, where it gained a following. After two more novels in the series were published, all three were published in the US to much acclaim; in 2002, for example, Publishers' Weekly called it a ""little gem of a book"". The series did not catch on in England, despite being so close to Scotland, until the fifth novel in the series. Mma Ramotswe sits in her office, the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency. She"
"of 800 entries. The novel won other awards, including the ""New Blood"" Dagger award in the United Kingdom, the Arthur Ellis Award in Canada for best first crime novel, the Dilys Award, the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel in the United States. Penny continues to write, garnering major crime novel award nominations for almost every one of her novels and subsequently winning several of those awards. Her work features Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, head of the homicide department of the Sûreté du Québec. The novels are set in the province of Quebec but feature many"