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- Location(s): Botswana, Mochudi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
As a fiery up-and-coming lawyer at the Bana Bantle Children’s Agency in Mochudi, Botswana, Naledi Chaba’s caseload is bulging with stories of rape and abuse. So when she takes on the case of a 15-year-old girl who has been...
The House of Unexpected Sisters
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At Botswana’s No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi are intrigued by the troubling dismissal of an employee at a thriving local business. The ladies proceed with investigations as they are inclined to do – with...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni attends a course hosted by the local chamber of commerce entitled “Where Is Your Business Going?” But rather than feeling energized, he comes back in low spirits, not sure if he should be satisfied with the...
The Kalahari Typing School For Men
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent’ reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee 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...
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
The one where Mma Ramotswe meets her hero . . . Mma Ramotswe, normally a peaceful sleeper, finds her slumbers disturbed by dreams of a tall stranger – but she is not quite ready to learn what this vision...
- Location(s): Maun, Botswana
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): l995
Emily (16), Travers (10), Angus (9), Maisie (7) and Oakley (1) lived in an idyllic 300-year-old cottage in the Cotswolds. They attended the local school, watched TV and did all the things English middle-class children do. Then, in 1995,...
The Lost World of the Kalahari
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1955
Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way...
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
As Botswana awaits the familiar blessing of the rains and the resumption of the eternal cycle, seismic upheaval is taking place at the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Not only is Mr J. L. B. Matekoni attempting to reform...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind...
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
As the countdown to Mma Makutsi’s wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against...
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