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	Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side, not to mention Mr J.L.B. Maketoni, the charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. And Precious is going to need them all as she sets out on the trail of a missing child, a case that tumbles our heroine into a hotbed of strange situations and more than a little danger... 'Everything about [McCall Smith] is appealing. He's just full of delight - it just bubbles out of him' - Sunday Herald 'A rare pleasure' - Daily Telegraph, UK Publisher: Abacus ISBN: 034911675X Published: 2003 Paperback: 256 pages, 198 x 126 mm Price: £6.99


	Alexander McCall Smith - Tears of the Giraffe The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. Tears of the Giraffe, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations... Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma's secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales. Tears of the Giraffe was selected as one of the top ten Fiction Paperbacks of the Year by the Guardian newspaper in the UK. Publisher: Abacus ISBN: 0349116652 Published: 2003 Paperback: 224 pages Price: £6.99


	Bessie Head - Maru 'With all my South African experience, I longed to write an enduring novel on the hideousness of racial prejudice. But I also wanted the novel to be so beautiful and magical that I, as the writer, would long to read it and re-read it.' The novel that resulted was Maru. Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, goes to teach in the remote village of Dilepe in Botswana, where her own people are kept as slaves. Her presence polarises a community which does not see Masarwa people as human, and condemns her to the lonely life of an outcast. Bessie Head, one of Africa's best known women writers, was born in South Africa in 1937. Her life was a traumatic one, and she drew heavily on her experiences for her novels. She was looked after by a foster family until she was thirteen, and then attended a mission school. She trained as a teacher. After four years' teaching she took a job as a journalist for 'Drum' magazine, but an unsuccessful marriage and her involvement in the trial of a friend, led her to apply for a teaching post in Botswana. Her precarious refugee status lasted fifteen years until she was granted Botswanan citizenship in 1979. She died in Botswana in 1986, aged only 49. Publisher: Heinemann ISBN: 0435909630 Published: 1995 Paperback Price: £6.35

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