Alexander McCall Smith has written over 60 published titles, including academic works, children's stories, and the global hit The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
The Botswana-based series has sold more than 15 million copies in English and has been translated into 42 other languages and made into an Emmy-nominated TV series for the BBC.
The first book in the series was voted one of the International Books of the Year and Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.
Tears of the Giraffe (2000), its sequel, was named one of The Guardian's top ten fiction books of 2000 and the fifth book in the series, The Full Cupboard of Life (2003) won the 2003 Saga Award for Wit. In 2004, Alexander McCall Smith also won the British Book Awards Author of the Year award.
