How to Raise an ElephantUnusual requests are commonplace at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, but so are very ordinary ones, such as a plea for money: when a distant cousin calls on Mma Ramotswe to ask for help with another relative's hip operation, tricky questions arise in regard to family responsibility. Mma Makutsi and Mr J. L. B. Matekoni are far from convinced of the merits of the request, but it is hard for Mma Ramotswe, with a heart her size, to turn people away.

They represent the politics of high power and the politics of the mob

The first British women to set foot in India did so in the very early seventeenth century

it is the Edinburgh Festival

award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws on recently opened archives to recreate these events in all their drama

it had decreased six-fold

who are convinced it's just someone who looks like Zoe

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (a member of Scott's Antarctic expedition)

and functions

fear and suspicion

with a family in pieces

Someone is about to walk into their happy family and tear it apart

two outsiders - the young Christian woman Helen and the mysterious Imran from Kashmir - try to find an island of calm in which their love can grow