Tag: alexander mccall smith

• Calcutta hosts world’s biggest book fair

  I am surprised the BBC didn’t mention the Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith is in Calcutta (Kolkata) for the Kolkata Book Fair. Maybe the BBC presenter and the Indian correspondent Subir Bhowmik ran out of time discussing the size and scale and the city’s passion for books that has made it the world’s largest retail…

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  Abhijit

  January 30, 2009

  Books, India

  alexander mccall smith, allen ginsberg, barack obama, book, book fair, calcutta, kolkata, rk narayan

• The Sunday Philosophy Club

  This is the second book I have read by Alexander McCall Smith. I loved his bestseller, The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. In a way, this is even better. Isobel Dalhousie is as far removed from Precious Ramotswe, the owner of The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, as Edinburgh from Botswana. Precious is Botswana’s only…

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  Abhijit

  September 18, 2006

  Books

  alexander mccall smith, bassoon, botswana, edinburgh, isobel dalhousie, precious ramotswe, the no 1 ladies’ detective agency, the really terrible orchestra, the sunday philosophy club

• The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

  I just finished reading Alexander McCall Smith’s The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and I can see why it’s proved so popular. It is different from the typical mystery or detective story. Precious Ramotswe is the first woman detective in Botswana. When her father dies, she uses her inheritance to set up her own little…

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  Abhijit

  July 12, 2005

  Books

  alexander mccall smith, precious ramotswe, the no 1 ladies’ detective agency