He then went back to Africa-first to Swaziland to teach and then, by 1980, to Botswana.

Law and Teaching After completing his education, Smith began teaching law at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He left Africa when he was seventeen years old to continue his education in Scotland.

The youngest ofįour children, Smith spent the whole of his childhood in Bulawayo and attended the Christian Brothers College there. His mother wrote a number of unpublished manuscripts. Growing Up in Africa Smith was born on August 24, 1948, in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (later known as Zimbabwe), where his father worked as a public prosecutor in what was then a British colony. Works in Biographical and Historical Context Readers and critics have been charmed by the stories, which are more about relationships, customs, and informal justice than sleuthing. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (1998), became a best-selling novel in the United States after it was popularized by word of mouth. Smith also had in print numerous books of fiction for children and short-story collections before he published a series of detective stories set in Botswana. For example, he has written about the duty to rescue and the impact of medical advances on parental rights. A professor of medical law at Edinburgh University, Smith has published many works on medical ethics and criminal law. The diverse accomplishments of Alexander McCall Smith include a distinguished career as a legal scholar and more recent fame as a best-selling novelist. The Sunday Philosophy Club is the first book in the series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.The No. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well.

As her hero WH Auden maintained, classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective, as an agent of God, can return to us. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander McCall Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THE MUCH-LOVED ISABEL DALHOUSIE SERIESĪmateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries.

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