The country was known as Southern Rhodesia. Alexander McCall Smith’s Life The author was born in Bulawayo, which was a British colony at the time. He also writes children’s books and academic non-fiction books. He holds a United Kingdom citizenship and is a British National.Īlexander McCall Smith is an academic who writes Fiction books specifically crime fiction. He was born in Africa, Bulawayo Rhodesia present day Zimbabwe. OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of CrimewritersĪlexander McCall Smith also known as Sandy was born in 24th August in 1948. Ian Rutledge: A Mysterious Profile (By:Charles Todd)īetter Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers Pendergast (By:Douglas Preston)Ĭharlotte and Thomas Pitt (By:Anne Perry) Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (By:Faye Kellerman)Īloysius X.
The Private Life of Spies and the Exquisite Art of Getting EvenĮlvis Cole and Joe Pike (By:Robert Crais) Tiny Tales: Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness
The Baboons Who Went This Way and That: Folktales from Africa The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa The Perfect Hamburger and Other Delicious Stories "Trouble at the North Pole" and Other Stories Must go back and re-read that one over summer.Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery I kind of hoped at one point that the lovely ex-boyfriend of the perfect niece, he that Dalhousie obviously had a bit of crush on would turn out to be a maniacal serial killer with a massive problem with snooty older women and take to her with the stiffened spine of one of her philosophy treatise.ĭoesn't mean I won't still dabble in the other books, particularly as I found myself left with a vague longing for PORTUGUESE IRREGULAR VERBS. Which made the basic premise of the book very difficult to connect with. Of course it could be that part of what the author was aiming at was to make her a bit of a fish out of water, but somehow she just got up my nose. There was something vaguely passive aggressive about all her actions, behaviours and attitudes that made my skin crawl slightly. I think to like this book you're going to have to like the protagonist Isabel Dalhousie, and unfortunately, she's the sort of character that makes me profoundly uncomfortable. Alas THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB didn't work for me at all. As strange as it may seem for somebody who prefers the darker side of Crime Fiction, I don't mind the occasional dabble in The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency and I've rather enjoyed a few of McCall Smith's other series as well.
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