For a limited time, Waterstones UK are offering a generous 25% off pre-orders for September’s The Big Cats Dance Party – the latest addition to The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Use code SUMMER26 at checkout on their site from Tuesday 21st July to Friday 24th This is very much a time limited offer so […]

‘His greeting is as warm and welcoming as the morning Kalahari sun’ Sally McDonald, Sunday Post A few weeks ago, super-fan Sally McDonald sat down with Alexander McCall Smith to talk about the longevity of his much loved series, The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, and his annual love letter to Botswana. The resulting interview was […]

Enjoy a Crime Reader’s Guide to The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series – quotes and insights and all the joy of Botswana and Precious Ramotswe. One not to be missed whether you are new to the series or have read every one of these books. The twenty-first book in this series, How to Raise an Elephant, is out now with a […]

The Laura Bush Book Club kicks of with hugely popular author,  Alexander McCall Smith, author of the bestselling The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, for the very first Book Club event. Meredith Land of NBC 5 moderates a discussion on the first book in the series, which tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious […]

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 […]