Alexander McCall Smith

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• Weekly Geeks 2009 - 42 : Podcasts: The Dog Who Came In from the Cold

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 533
  This weeks Weekly Geeks task from Suey asks us to talk about podcasts. I thought Id tell you about THE DOG WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, Alexander McCall Smiths second in the Corduroy Mansions online series. Last year I listened to most of the first novel. This years online novel began back in September - the ...
  5 hours ago

• Whos Who In Corduroy Mansions

  
  Really Rachel — Authority: 417
  It’s been puzzling me. “Someone,” I said to myself, “Needs to jot down the names of all these characters, with a few notes about how they relate to one-another. That would help…” That ‘someone’ has turned out to be me. I’ve been greatly enjoying Alexander McCall Smith’s latest novel, “The Dog ...
  4 days ago

• Alexander McCall Smith on His No 1 Ladies Detective, Mma Ramotswe (Plus: TV Series Videos)

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 542
  Alexander McCall Smith reflects on the impact that his No. 1 Ladies Detective series has had on the way Africa is perceived in other parts of the world - a series that has gained even greater popularity since the launch of it’s TV counterpart, with US actress and R&B singer Jill Scott playing the lead: As the ...
  1 week ago

• Corduroy Mansions – nuts and nutters chapters 36-41

  
  Nixdminx — Authority: 117
  Well Freddie de la Hay is not the only barking character in this collection of chapters I’ve just read. They are all nuts. James, he is not so much nutty as he confesses he is unable to get his to work. Berthea believes she should be placing a sign above her door ‘May Contain Nuts’. I’m not even going to get ...
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• The State of South African Crime Fiction

  
  Margie Orford — Authority: 108
  Raymond Chandler wrote in The Simple Art of Murder that “the detective story for a variety of reasons can seldom be promoted. It is usually about murder and hence lacks the element of uplift. Murder … has a good deal of sociological implication. But it has been going on too long for it to be news.” South ...
  2 weeks ago

• Margie Orford on international trafficking in SA krimis

  
  Crime Beat — Authority: 124
  In the current issue of the Mail & Guardian, Margie Orford writes about the eminently exportable commodity that is South African crime fiction. Because we’re thieves we’ve snitched this from their website but if you click here and here you’ll find two more crime fiction reviews worth reading. ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Titles!

  
  On The Same Page — Authority: 124
  New MP3 The Good Children by Kate Wilhelm It started with a promise, a pact.  It became a secret that no one must tell-that parents were dead and gone, including the one they’d buried in the backyard.  Now the McNair children are growing older, discovering love, college, and careers.  but their lie haunts ...
  4 weeks ago

• Karina Magdalena Szczurek Reviews Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 433
  Verdict: carrot Szczurek assures us that Alexander McCall Smith’s Tea Time for the Traditionally Built , No. 10 in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series, is not to be missed! McCall Smith does not dwell on the topics most other authors writing about Africa focus on: poverty, violence and misery. ...
  4 weeks ago

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