Worldwide bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith
Roy Jenkins guess is the bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, Creator of The No1LadiesβDetective Agency, The Sunday Philosophy Club and 44 Scotland Street.
It is twenty years since one of the worldβs best-loved fictional crime-fighters cracked her first case. Precious Ramotswe, founder of The No.1 Ladiesβ Detective Agency, cheerful, gentle and armed with canny intuition, has now appeared in eighteen books set in Botswana, selling a staggering 20 million copies in English alone, and translated into more than 46 languages.
Her creator, Alexander McCall Smith, has received huge praise from critics, not least because they find her charm a reflection of his. As one put it:
βIf he has a raging ego, extreme vanity or hopeless insecurity, or, indeed, any of the other traditional writerly frailties, Alexander McCall Smith keeps them well hidden. He is charming, avuncular, a global publishing phenomenon who looks like a Rotary Club chairman.β (The Times, March 15th 2008)
He might have made Precious Ramotswe Botswanaβs most famous sleuth, but he sets much of his prolific output in his home city of Edinburgh, including the 44 Scotland Street series and the Sunday Philosophy Club. There are also more than 30 childrenβs books, a string of stand-alone novels, and various non-fiction titles, quite apart from his academic work as a professor of medical law.
This edition of All Things Considered was first broadcast in May 2018
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