Comments on: Bush Tea with Alexander McCall Smith

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:56:10 +0000

I, too, would like to know how to purchase the tea set used in the show!

By: Mary P

Mary P — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:42:19 +0000

I have enjoyed The NO.1 Ladies detective agency. I am intrigued by Precious’ wisdom. She is a fine classy lady. She reminds me of my mother. I am always eager to find out how she will handle situations. She is so patient with Mme.Makusti and I feel she has helped her in so many ways.
I have just completed The Double Comfort Safari Club. Can’t wait for your next installment in the series. Traveling to Botswana has become my greatest desire. I just had my firt cup of red bush tea. Thank you for good, clean Christian literature. My daughter is 15 and she has enjoyed you as well. Thank you for such a well written series, that I can pass down to my children, and future grandchildren.
Mary P

By: Roi B. Davis

Roi B. Davis — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:22:28 +0000

Two days ago, I picked up (library) the DVD (3 parts) and I could not turn it off; tonight is my last tape and I must seek to see if there are more. I hope there are more series in the States I can view.

I have never seen an African base TV show and I found every aspect of the movie equal to the ones in USA.

By: Marjorie Jackson

Marjorie Jackson — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:56:57 +0000

Dear Mr. Smith,
I have read all of your Isabel Dalhousie books and absolutely love them. I find her internal philosophical discussions extremely interesting and relevant. And, I very much enjoy the ladies detective stories, particularly because I lived in Cape Town for a year and half back in 1972-3, and enjoy thinking of people I met there, the southern Africa landscape, the pace of life, that I am reminded of when reading your books about Botswana. I have now discovered your short stories in Heavenly Date and am delighted with this other aspect of your writing! I am curious if the story Bulowayo is in any way reminiscent of your own knowledge of people and place from your childhood?

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:53:13 +0000

Starbucks has the Rooibos tea. It’s really good!

By: brian sivers

brian sivers — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:36:09 +0000

So much to recall so many happy tears to shed, and the smell of the african life the noise a place I called my home a place I shall never forget. Yours books pull my mind back to a time in my youth, finding myself on a tobbaco farm in Hartley, that I am shore you have heard of. The tobacco barns the late evening on the stupe with a drink, all around the hum and sound of the wild life, the gentle breeze, oh my eyes are starting to blure such joy how blessed could one be. Thank you thank for the words you are able to write. Bless you. CALEN DORA

By: Sue Wright

Sue Wright — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:16:41 +0000

I first saw The No, 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency on the HBO series. I immediately started searching for the first book in the series. I have now completed all the books in this series and am eagerly awaiting another. I love these books! They have caused me to research Botswana (which I knew very little about) and red bush tea (which I am in the process of ordering). I love the stories and the fact that they are steeped in a quieter and lovelier pace of life. And they prove that it does not require sex to sell a book. Keep up the good and let us have many more of this series.

By: Cheryl Roebuck

Cheryl Roebuck — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:11:25 +0000

When I saw that Jill Scott had been cast for the part, instantly I knew that I would like the show. However after seeing the pilot, I absolutely feel in love with the show and the scenes. Shortly after the first show, I was walking through the airport at which time I purchased the first book in the series. I finished the book the next day and bought the next 3 while on my trip. I have since purchased the remainder of the series and I have really taken to bush tea. Keep the stories coming, at least until I can travel to Botswana

By: Ellen Rouse

Ellen Rouse — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:16:33 +0000

Oh, how I have fallen in love with Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi! I am nearing the end of The Full Cupboard of Life and wonder what I will do without this lovely piece of Africa in Botswana and this community of people. The peaceful simplicity is a welcome respite for me everyday. Thank you so much for sharing these characters with the world.

By: Linda Price

Linda Price — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:15:21 +0000

In 1989 served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana. Your books take me back to a time in my life I love to revisit. Thank you.

By: paula mcmanus

paula mcmanus — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:21:35 +0000

I Love your new show. I have been looking everywhere for the tea set used on the show, that they serve bush tea in. do you know where I can get one?

By: Ulus Balloon

Ulus Balloon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:12:24 +0000

I was not aware of your book series of the “Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency” but became aware by the televised HBO series. Such a refreshing image to come from the mother land. I feel a deep association with the people and the country that makes me happy to be an African American. I hope to visit one day soon.

By: Barbara Pellicciari

Barbara Pellicciari — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:39:29 +0000

I too have become an avid reader since 2005 and have turned many friends into your fans, in the UK (home), Italy and the USA. Just returned from Los Angeles last night and was gutted to see on your US website that you were actually at the UC Berkley, giving an evening talk! Have now printed off the dates of your UK appearances and hope to catch you at one of them! It’s so refreshing to read such entertaining books, with no bad language or sexual overdosing, so prevalent in modern story-telling these days! Even though I have visited South Africa only briefly, I now feel as though I have been there many times and really appreciate the ‘other side’ of Africa and its peoples that you paint, which is so different form what we are fed by the media on a daily basis!

By: arpita kalra

arpita kalra — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:02:01 +0000

Have devoured with real pleasure and countless cups of ordinary tea almost all of your books…eagerly wait for the march 2009 release….have converted my mother whos never read fiction …to an avid reader…!cant thank you enough for them.

By: Kimberly Enqvist

Kimberly Enqvist — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:39:29 +0000

I really love your books the ones about Mma Ramotswe and the ones about the Irish woman, I have every one of them and i encourage my friends to read them as well. I hope you’ll write more fantastic books, ’cause i’ll read them with my breath hold.

By: Lorette C. Luzajic

Lorette C. Luzajic — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:41:02 +0000

What a thoughtfully written piece with such interesting questions! Wonderful! One of my most treasured belongings is the autographed first installation. Smith was visiting the bookstore I worked in. My boss knew I was crazy for the series, and he gave me a copy to be signed by the author.

Each and every book in the series is a treasure. Absolutely original. If there’s anyone out there who hasn’t treated themselves to these, I urge you to take a quiet few hours to begin the series. You’ll read every one, and feel more peace of mind and contentment in life.

By: Hayley Hogan

Hayley Hogan — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:30:40 +0000

I was born and raised in South Africa and emigrated to the USA ten years ago. The Mma Ramotswe series has helped medicate some of my homesickness. I get so absorbed in these books that my husband complains that he has become a widower. Those who have lived in Africa will understand how it gets into your blood!!!!

By: Sanda Bartman

Sanda Bartman — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:23:45 +0000

Hello:

I just wanted to say that the The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency captured my undivided attention and eager to read more of your writing I found The Sunday Philosoply Club available and became caught up in the lives of these characters. I enjoyed this book so much I quickly read all of the books in that series. Now I am reading the series of 44 Scotland Expresso Tales. As I read your books I find I am increasingly interested in ethics, especially ommissions which Big Lou brings up in Expresso Tales, Scottish culture and putting on my grocery list Mma Ramotswe tea for the purpose of drinking while reading your books. I am also eager to know your thoughts on multiculturalism. Thanks, Sandra Bartman

By: Indulekha

Indulekha — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:55:08 +0000

I’ve noticed that there has been an increase in the sales of redbush tea, even in supermarkets. Im convinced that this is at least partly down to your Mma Ramotswe!

thankyou for your lovely books, I hope the no.1 ladies detective agency has no end of problems to solve so that I can read about them endlessly!

By: Emma Moore

Emma Moore — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:45:07 +0000

I have become completely addicted to your wonderful books and dread reaching the final pages….as someone with no experience of Africa, your writing opens up that world to me, and in it’s simplicity it so describes a world where people still have moral standards, are not rushing through their lives frenetically and above all, are full of heart…

By: colleen pederson

colleen pederson — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:11:37 +0000

I just want to say thank you! Your many lovely books touch my heart, and stimulate my moral thinking [kindness, not legalistic] as well as my appetite! Your books have become like good friends, and I feel a sense of loneliness when I say good bye to one.

Thank you for writing – for following your gift and sharing so generously with us.

Warmest Regards,
Colleen Pederson

By: Margaret Christian

Margaret Christian — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:09:23 +0000

I have discovered your wondeful books in the last few years and as a previous Zimbabwean (now living in Australia) and occasional visitor to Botswana, you have brought back so many memories of ‘the good times’. You encapsulate the nature and temperment of the African people so well, and I have in turn recommended your stories to many friends. You certainly don’t have to be an ‘African’ to enjoy your stories.

Thank you