Books written by Alexander McCall Smith

  • To the Land of Long Lost Friends: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (20)
    To the Land of Long Lost Friends: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (20)

    In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood friend, but when her inquiries attract the attention of a prominent politician she lands herself in more ...

  • To the Land of Long Lost Friends
    To the Land of Long Lost Friends

    THE TWENTIETH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one with the mysterious reverend .

  • Number One Ladies' Detective Agency
    Number One Ladies' Detective Agency

    Working in Gaborone, Botswana, sleuth Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week. Reprint.

  • To the Land of Long Lost Friends
    To the Land of Long Lost Friends

    As Precious and Mma Makutsi dig deeper into the stories of Nametso and the mysterious reverend, it will take all their ingenuity and moral good sense to get to the heart of the matter."--Publisher's description

  • Young Precious: the Collected Adventures
    Young Precious: the Collected Adventures

    This volume contains all her first adventures, from the mystery of some missing snacks to the clues that lead to a family reunion.This is a special collection which includes all four of the Young Precious adventures so farPrecious and the ...

  • Precious and the Case of the Missing Lion: A New Case for Precious Ramotswe
    Precious and the Case of the Missing Lion: A New Case for Precious Ramotswe

    As they dodge the hippos and crocs they will need all their bravery and cleverness to catch their prize. Find out if they succeed as Alexander McCall Smith tells us the story of Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion.

  • Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill: A New Case for Precious Ramotwse
    Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill: A New Case for Precious Ramotwse

    Will she succeed and what obstacles will she face on her path? Find out as Alexander McCall Smith tells the story of Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill.

  • Longman Book Project: Fiction

    Designed to fit the National Curriculum, this is part of the Longman Book Project.

  • The Girl who Married a Lion
    The Girl who Married a Lion

    Born and raised in what is now Zimbabwe, Smith began collecting these stories as a child and combines them with several he gleaned from a friend who interviewed natives of...

  • The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa
    The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa

    Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

  • The Girl who Married a Lion

    The Girl who Married a Lion

  • Children of Wax: African Folk Tales
    Children of Wax: African Folk Tales

    The 27 stories collected from the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe demonstrate the wealth and variety of traditional African folk tales.

  • A Promise of Ankles: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (14)
    A Promise of Ankles: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (14)

    While Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully warm and witty comedy takes some surprising turns, the improbable adventures of this quirky cast of Scots will affirm the heart and joy in Edinburgh's New Town.

  • A Promise of Ankles
    A Promise of Ankles

    Book 14 in the delightful 44 Scotland Street series, by worldwide bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith At the bottom of a sharply descending street - in the topographical sense - in Edinburgh's Georgian New Town, new residents have ...

  • A Promise of Ankles: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (14)
    A Promise of Ankles: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (14)

    While Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully warm and witty comedy takes some surprising turns, the improbable adventures of this quirky cast of Scots will affirm the heart and joy in Edinburgh's New Town.

  • A Time of Love and Tartan
    A Time of Love and Tartan

    Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully witty, wise and sometimes surreal comedy spirals out to include tennis-playing Rwandan Forest People, researches into levitating Celtic saints, bogus headhunters in Papua New Guinea and primary school ...

  • Tiny Tales
    Tiny Tales

    In the space of a couple of sentences - or even a page or two - we can see the human heart exposed in a way that is more powerful than in a novel.In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness and happiness in ...

  • Trains and Lovers: A Novel
    Trains and Lovers: A Novel

    Here is Alexander McCall Smith at his most subtle and enchanting, exploring the nature of love—and trains—in this utterly captivating story.

  • Trains and Lovers: 'writing as warm as cocoa - exceedingly good' - The Times
    Trains and Lovers: 'writing as warm as cocoa - exceedingly good' - The Times

    These are very different experiences, but throughout them all runs a deep current of love. And loving others, as one of the characters observes, is the good thing we do in our lives.

  • Trains and Lovers
    Trains and Lovers

    And a young Englishman describes how exiting his train at the wrong station allowed him to meet an intriguing woman whom he impulsively invited to dinner--and into his life. Here is Alexander McCall Smith at his most enchanting.