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  • Location: Botswana, Gabarone

The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #4)

2000s: Oh there’s a bit of competition for Precious in this one….and who can resist the idea of a typing school for men?

  • Location: Istanbul

The Istanbul Puzzle

2000s: This is a booktrail waiting to happen. There’s  photographs and a trail in the book itself and the author tweets regularly about the locations…

  • Location: Botswana, Gaborone

Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #2)

2000s: Alexander McCall Smith holds the country close to his heart – he has spent time in both Botswana and lived for a time in…

  • Location: Madrid

Madrid Underground – (Supt Bernal 1)

1977:  A booktrail on the maddening maze that is the Madrid Metro is very thrilling indeed

  • Location: Gaborone, Botswana

The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

2000s: If you have ever wanted to read about or learn about Southern Africa then reading this and the series of novels it produced will…

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The Reluctant Spy

2025: Right place, right time. Wrong man.

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