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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies #6

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies #6
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of ‘traditional build’, is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman...

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built #10

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built #10
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswe’s newest client...

The Scent of Rain

The Scent of Rain
  • Author(s): Josef Lewies
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Botswana – An antidote to fast moving city life and throwaway society. It’s not long since life was less full and frenetic. And it wasn’t all bad. It provided fertile ground for the imagination. This author captures and conveys warmth...

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
  • Author(s): Robyn Scott
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly left to amuse themselves, grew up...

White Dog Fell from the Sky

White Dog Fell from the Sky
  • Author(s): Eleanor Morse
  • Location(s): Gaborone
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Botswana, 1976. Isaac Muthethe thinks that he is dead. Forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force, he finds himself, for the first time, in a country without...

Tears of the Giraffe

Tears of the Giraffe
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th century

“The giraffe gives its tears to the women and they weave them into the basket. Why does the giraffe gives its tears? I suppose that it means that we can all give something. A giraffe has nothing else to...

Don’t Look BEHIND YOU

Don’t Look BEHIND YOU
  • Author(s): Peter Allison
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

This is a wry and immensely colourful account of a young man’s adventures as a safari leader in Botswana. Scared of heights, unfamiliar with the gym and terrified of an innocuous little tree-frog, high school drop-out Peter’s rapport with...

A Carrion Death (#1 Detective Kubu)

A Carrion Death (#1 Detective Kubu)
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A stunning debut crime novel set against a backdrop of poachers, witch doctors, diamond smugglers and corruption… They find the first body near a waterhole considered magical by the local bush people. A string of clues suggests that the...

A Deadly Trade (#2 Detective Kubu)

A Deadly Trade (#2 Detective Kubu)
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Set amid the beauty and darkness of modern Botswana, the second in the fantastic crime series featuring the opera-loving wine connoisseur Assistant Superintendant David ‘Kubu’ Bengu of the Botswana Police Force When a mutilated body is found at a...

The Wild Girls

The Wild Girls
  • Author(s): Phoebe Morgan
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a luxury lodge on Botswana’s sun-soaked plains, four friends reunite for a birthday celebration… THE BIRTHDAY GIRL Has it all, but chose love over her friends… THE TEACHER Feels the walls of her flat and classroom closing in…...

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