The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe

Description

Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - in spite of Mma Ramotswe's belated claims that she is only 'an assistant full partner' - she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. Grace Makutsi is a lady with a business plan, but who could predict temperamental chefs, drunken waiters and more? Luckily, help is at hand, from the only person in Gaborone more gently determined than Mma Makutsi ...Mma Ramotswe, of course.

Promotion info

- Supported by a major marketing and PR push in the run-up to Christmas - Online and social media outreach initiative to DOUBLE his UK readership - Win a trip to Botswana, courtesy of Belmond luxury holidays - Pre-publication awareness activity via Facebook and author website

Reviews

There is something almost divinely appealing about the way McCall Smith writes about daily life in Botswana ... it is hard to think of a contemporary writer more genuinely engaging ... [his] novels are also extremely funny: I find it impossible to think about them without smiling Mail on Sunday Forget the library - the body is in the mud hut. An African Miss Marple created by a Scottish lawyer ... superb Sunday Times Totally addictive Daily Mail A small slice of heaven Scotsman

Author description

Following a distinguished career as a Professor of Medical Law, Alexander McCall Smith turned to writing full-time. He is the author of over eighty books on a wide array of subjects, and his works have been translated into forty-six languages. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife.