The Kalahari Typing School for Men cover

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

by Alexander McCall Smith

In this fourth volume of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the ever-popular Precious Ramotswe- Botswana's leading, and only, female private detective - faces a new and unwanted problem: competition. 'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? "There is something almost divinely appealing about the way Alexander McCall Smith writes about daily life in Botswana . . . it is hard to think of a contemporary writer more genuinely engaging ... [his] novels are also extremely funny: I find it impossible to think about them without smiling' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'A treasure of a writer whose books deserve immediate devouring' Marcel Berlins, Guardian

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