Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall
Smith
Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series are no doubt already looking forward to the publication of the seventh volume in the series, Blue Shoes and Happiness, which finds us back in Botswana in the company of Precious Ramotswe and her friends. The challenges that Mma Ramotswe faces in the latest instalment of her story include a complex and despicable blackmail case, a wayward assistant detective and - perhaps most taxing of all - a diet.
The book will be out in the shops next week - but for a foretaste of what's to come, you can listen here to the author himself reading the first chapter of Blue Shoes and Happiness, exclusively for us. Click here to listen (MP3: 20mins), or paste http://blogs.theguardian.com/culturevulture/podcast.xml into the Podcasts bit of iTunes or your RSS reader, to subscribe to the Culture Vulture feed and receive all the Vulture's podcasts as they become available.
