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August 2016

Your chance to win a safari for two with Waterstones (UK)

Date Published: 30th August 2016

Win a Safari Holiday to Botswana for Two with Alexander McCall Smith Exclusively from Waterstones.com, pre-order/order your copy of Precious and Grace (ISBN: 9781408708125) by Alexander McCall Smith for the chance to win a money-can’t-buy trip for yourself and one other person to Botswana, with Belmond Safaris and Alexander McCall Smith. All customers who order […]

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2016 – Event reviewed (UK)

Date Published: 23rd August 2016

How can you describe such a literary phenomenon as Alexander McCall Smith? This prolific, best selling author with a richly imaginative mind creates the most endearing characters from Precious Ramotswe of Botswana to Bertie at 44 Scotland Street, from the philosophising, art lover sleuth, Isabel Dalhousie to Fatty O’Leary, whose farcical travels to Ireland won […]

Alexander at Edinburgh Book Festival – First Night Review (UK)

Date Published: 16th August 2016

Phil Miller, The Herald’s arts correspondent attended the first of Alexander’s three events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night. You can read his review here. The best selling Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith has defended his “positive” books which he says have been accused of being Utopian. In an uncharacteristically passionate defence of […]

What is Alexander McCall Smith reading this summer?

Date Published: 15th August 2016

Find out what Alexander McCall Smith is packing in his suitcase this summer in the Observer’s Best Holiday Reads.

Italian wine with Will Lyons and Alexander McCall Smith (UK)

Date: 14 September 2016

Venue: Napoleon Cellar, 3 St James's Street, London SW1A 1EG

Time: 12.45–16.00

Join Will Lyons and Alexander McCall Smith – author of The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series – for an Italian feast inspired by his latest novel, My Italian Bulldozer. After a sparkling reception you will descend to our Napoleon Cellar for a leisurely four-course lunch, prepared in-house by our excellent Head Chef Stewart Turner, […]

The Revolving Door of Life–Scotland Street–in paperback (UK)

Date Published: 1st August 2016

The Revolving Door of Life, the 10th book in the international hit series, 44 Scotland Street, and now the longest running newspaper serial in the world will be published in paperback on 4 August. Don’t miss it! ‘Amusing, eyebrow raising and full of satisfying warmth and love, this is an enchanting and joyful read.’ Liz Robinson, […]