Little Brown

Further intrigues with the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana., and another good read. I love these moral, feel good books, enhanced by having heard the recent broadcasts which give an inner ear for the delightful cadence of the dialogue.

The relationship between Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi is beautifully drawn, and the musings of Mr J L B Matekoni on the nature of women and his wife in particular is a masterpiece.

I found this book fascinating with the writing being quite brilliant, but I found the Botswanian names a little bit hard to to get used to. I had only read the Scotland Street series and loved them, so this latest book was quite a revelation to me.

I enjoyed the slower pace of the book and as a result an insight to the culture and society.

I look forward to seeing the next book in the series, keep them coming.   

Alex Gray has taken up the detective theme bringing Glasgow to the fore where we meet DCI Lorimer who is a gentleman I would not like to cross swords with.

I have become a great fan of Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor after meeting Charley at their headquarters recently in London, when Vicky and I met Charley to interview him on their latest trip 'The Long Way Down'.

But I'm going to talk about their book 'The Long Way Round' which is the trip that they did in 2004.  They started off from London and went through France, Belguim, Germany across the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia then flying across to Alaska down through Canada and North America arriving at their finish destination New York.

The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks is a great read and is about the family who own the game EMPIRE on which they built their fortune. The book has many hidden agendas and inspires both compromised loyalties and personal desires that plague the Wopuld Family who are trying to come to a decision on whether to allow an American company to by them out or not - but read on and find out more for yourself.