In this sixth entry in McCall Smith's consistently delightful series, Botswana detective Precious Ramotswe, the traditionally built—and newly married—owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is ...

Author Alexander McCall Smith’s new series is an attempt to use short fiction to make listeners feel better about the world. Plus, what happened when two London gangsters decided to make a film?

In a letter to her niece about novel writing, Jane Austen once remarked: “You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life. Three or ...

Author Alexander McCall Smith has told how he “narrowly escaped disaster” in a violent storm while sailing in the Greek islands. Writing on Twitter, he described how his boat was seized by a storm and ...

The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency novels featuring the insightful Botswanon Investigator Mma Precious Ramotswe have sold more than 15 Million copies in 43 Languages worldwide A film based on the ...

Alexander McCall Smith was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, to British parents. He moved to Edinburgh to study law, before teaching at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1981, McCall Smith co-founded the law ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith has shot to fame in the past five years with his series "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" but the future of amateur sleuth Mma ...