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AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

'Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.'

'Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.'

'Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.'

'As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.'

'As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.'

Author Extraordinaire Alexander McCall Smith

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omg you had no.1 ladies detective agency icons! that show was so nice

ugh it was! i wish they’d done a season 2! 

(i gotta do new icons for it omg. those so old/bad) 

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Number one ladies detective agency books in order

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"Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. "I've never met a community of people this warm, and this laid-back and this relaxed," she says. "I'm very used to people saying to me, 'You paint a very optimistic, positive picture of the country.' I think that I'm a writer who works at that end of the spectrum."įor her part, Scott feels like the series' depiction of Botswana is fair, after her experience living there during the location shoot.

Number one ladies detective agency books in order series#

"It's certainly not in keeping with the overwhelming majority of the rest of the incidents in the series of books," he says. The first installment, in fact, features a dark storyline about witchcraft - something McCall Smith says he regrets now, with 10 No. He trained as a lawyer, and ended up in Botswana helping to create its first law school.īut for all the writer's law-and-order background, the series turns out to be less about solving crime and more about solving people's problems - which are often fairy-tale-like mysteries. McCall Smith was born and grew up in what is now Zimbabwe, neighbor to Botswana. She's fairly typical of many people whom you meet in that part of the world." "She's a very intelligent woman, she's kind, she's forgiving - she's just the sort of person you'd like to sit down and have a cup of tea with. "Well, she's a woman of great intuitive ability," McCall Smith says of Ramotswe. "It was amazing to me that an entire culture of people could be so generous with their energy and spirit." "I kept meeting women who were sweet - just genuinely sweet and smart," she says. Scott says she discovered a strong sense of the character while filming in Botswana. "But there's another thing that she has - she tries to achieve some sort of resolution between people, which may mean actually forgiving somebody." "She does have a very strong sense of justice and what is right," McCall Smith explains. McCall Smith found his flesh-and-blood heroine in Scott, who portrays Ramotswe as having enormous confidence and a sense of her own beauty - even when the skinny girls come around to call her "fatty." It's the first leading role for the performer. Singer Jill Scott plays Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only lady detective, in the series. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith's charming, best-selling book series - comes to American audiences this Sunday as an HBO miniseries. THE BOY WITH AN AFRICAN HEART (29 Mar 09)Ĥ.Anika Noni Rose plays Mma Makutsi, Ramotswe's quirky secretary. UK / BBC One – HBO – Mirage – Weinstein / 1×105 minute episode 6×60 minute episodes / Broadcast 23 March 2008 and 15 March – 19 April 2009Ĭreators: Richard Curtis, Anthony Minghella / Books: Alexander McCall Smith / Music: Gabriel Yared / Production Design: Johnny Breedt / Executive Producers: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Richard Curtis, Amy J. “Mma Ramotswe you are looking very fine today, very fat”. Sadly this was Anthony Minghella’s last work, he died in 2008. In this sumptuous series filmed on location in Botswana, the very lovely Jill Scott plays Mma Precious Romotswe who uses the inheritance left to her by her father to open up her own private detective agency.īeing the only female private detective in Botswana Mma Romotswe feels fully entitled to call her new business the “No1 Ladies Detective Agency” she is joined by loyal secretary Mma Makutsi (played by Anika Noni Rose) who is famed for scoring 97% in her secretarial exams whilst on the romance side she is pursued by local garage mechanic Mr J.L.B. One of the cutest crime drama series you’ll see in a long long time is The Number One Ladies Detective Agency, based on the best selling series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith.

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Number one ladies detective agency books in order

#NUMBER ONE LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY BOOKS IN ORDER SERIES#

#NUMBER ONE LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY BOOKS IN ORDER SERIES#

1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls. This first novel in Alexander McCall Smiths widely acclaimed The No. 1 film The beat of Botswana The making of The No. THE BOY WITH AN AFRICAN HEART (29 Mar 09)Ĥ. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Box Set: The No. Special features include: Botswana: the gem of Africa Anthony Minghellas No. UK / BBC One – HBO – Mirage – Weinstein / 1×105 minute episode 6×60 minute episodes / Broadcast 23 March 2008 and 15 March – 19 April 2009Ĭreators: Richard Curtis, Anthony Minghella / Books: Alexander McCall Smith / Music: Gabriel Yared / Production Design: Johnny Breedt / Executive Producers: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Richard Curtis, Amy J. “Mma Ramotswe you are looking very fine today, very fat”. Sadly this was Anthony Minghella’s last work, he died in 2008. In this sumptuous series filmed on location in Botswana, the very lovely Jill Scott plays Mma Precious Romotswe who uses the inheritance left to her by her father to open up her own private detective agency.īeing the only female private detective in Botswana Mma Romotswe feels fully entitled to call her new business the “No1 Ladies Detective Agency” she is joined by loyal secretary Mma Makutsi (played by Anika Noni Rose) who is famed for scoring 97% in her secretarial exams whilst on the romance side she is pursued by local garage mechanic Mr J.L.B. One of the cutest crime drama series you’ll see in a long long time is The Number One Ladies Detective Agency, based on the best selling series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith. First published in Great Britain in 1998, it sold slowly at first, and it did not. 27)įYI: Anchor is simultaneously issuing two other titles in this series, General audiences will welcome this little gem of a book just as much if not more than mystery readers. Images of this large woman driving her tiny white van or sharing a cup of bush tea with a friend or client while working a case linger pleasantly. Mma Ramotswe's love of Africa, her wisdom and humor, shine through these pages as she shines her own light on the problems that vex her clients. With persistent observation, gentle intuition, and a keen desire to help people with the problems. The desultory pace is fine, since she has only a detective manual, the frequently cited example of Agatha Christie and her instincts to guide her. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 1998 / Suspense Book - 1 MEET PRECIOUS RAMOTSWE, 'the Miss Marple of Botswana' (The New York Times Book Review) -a heroine who is endearing, engaging, and simply irresistible. Mma Ramotswe's cases come slowly and hesitantly at first: women who suspect their husbands are cheating on them a father worried that his daughter is sneaking off to see a boy a missing child who may have been killed by witchdoctors to make medicine a doctor who sometimes seems highly competent and sometimes seems to know almost nothing about medicine. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series 20 Books Collection Box Set by Alexander McCall Smith (Books 1 - 20) ISBN: 9789124089856 FORMAT: Paperback AUTHOR. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" serve not only to entertain but to explore conditions in Botswana in a way that is both penetrating and light thanks to Smith's deft touch. A series of vignettes linked to the establishment and growth of Mma Ramotswe's "No. The African-born author of more than 50 books, from children's stories ( The Perfect Hamburger) to scholarly works ( Forensic Aspects of Sleep), turns his talents to detection in this artful, pleasing novel about Mma (aka Precious) Ramotswe, Botswana's one and only lady private detective.

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Relationship Status: Single!

Favourite Colour: Red

Lipstick or Chapstick:  I have a hundred of both but specifically three chapsticks on my bedside cabinet, two in my bag and two in my work bag. random facts. 

Last Song I Listened To: Solita by PRETTYMUCH & Rich the Kid

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Top 3 TV Shows: Peaky Blinders, BBC Musketeers, Money Heist

Top 3 Ships: Moscow & Happiness (Money Heist), Nadia & Guzman (Elite), Tommy & Grace ( Peaky Blinders )

Books I’m Currently Reading: The No1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall-Smith

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Mma Ramotswe. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith

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for someone who is not "any good at tapping into characters" you were spot on, IMO. maybe you should try writing a fic. ✍️ i hope you get a nice pile 📚 with some new favorites in it. only ten days to find out 🎁 what are some of your favorite books/authors?

Oh thank you! You are too kind!  - Perhaps I will one day if I ever stop procrastinating my own other writing projects! lol

Gosh yes it’s only 10 days away now! Time has been really moving fast!

Favourite Authors - well I have quite a few! Sarah J. Maas is in the top there along with Sarah Raasch and Victoria Aveyard. Keira Cass is another favourite, along with Carola Dunn, Megan Whelan Turner, Ann Aguirre, Edward Marsten and Neil Gaiman.

Books well ahem. That’s another story. Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas has got to be one of my all time favourites. Just the characterization and worldbuilding are just stunning! hjasf;ls Red Queen, Remanent Chronicles, Snow Like Ashes, The Selection and Queen’s Thief series are also favourites. I also have a soft spot for murder mysteries - Daisy Dalrymple, The Railway Detective and the No1. Ladies’ Detective Agency are my favourites of those. There are a whole bunch others as well but they are not coming to me right now.

I’m actually trying to branch out more into adult SF/Fantasy as well as rope in a few more murder mysteries. What about you?

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