Don’t miss your chance to explore Botswana with Alexander McCall Smith and Belmond travel. You can now read Alexander’s travel diary here from his last Belmond adventure in Botswana. We hear that there are only two places left on the 2018t safari so do get in touch with Belmond soon. Belmond run an annual safari […]

A very good reason to celebrate: 2018 is the twentieth anniversary of publication of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith—20 years of delightfully different books, page-after-page of humanity, kindness, humour and forgiveness, and in short, sheer joy. The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series started life as a short story written for friends […]

A new cover has been revealed for a 20th Anniversary Edition of  Alexander McCall Smith’s The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency — one of the world’s favourite novels. First published in the summer of 1998, The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency has been in print ever since and now has a striking new cover to mark the 20th […]

Which Rhino should be given the name Precious Ramotswe? To mark the 20th anniversary of publication of  The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, and to thank Alexander for increasing world-wide interest in Botswana, the charity Rhino Conservation Botswana (RCB) are asking fans of the books to help choose a female rhino to carry the Precious Ramotswe name […]