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May 2010

Alexander’s Oddest Book Signing?

Date Published: 31st May 2010

We asked Alexander to tell us about the oddest book signing that he’d attended, and he told us about the time he visited the Wivenhoe Bookshop. Here Alexander entertained (and was entertained by) 20 ladies who meet to knit and discuss the world. He took tea and scones with them in the garden hut at […]

Photos from the Edinburgh peformance of The Okavango Macbeth

Date Published: 20th May 2010

The first UK performance of Alexander McCall Smith’s opera based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth took place in Edinburgh earlier this month, at the Dovecot Studios. The performance featured students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow with members of the Edinburgh Studio Opera. Visit www.timesonline.co.uk to read an interview in which Alexander […]